Data Scientist

Reporting to the Lead Data Scientist, the Data Scientist will be responsible fordeveloping, implementing, and optimising machine learning and advanced analyticssolutions to support decision-making across NGED. This role involves collaborating withdata engineers, insight analysts, and key stakeholders to extract value from data,ensuring that AI and predictive models align with business goals and operationalneeds.

The Data Scientist will apply statistical and machine learning techniques to develophigh-quality models, automate data-driven processes, and provide actionable insights.They will work within cloud environments and utilise modern MLOps practices tostreamline model deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

This role also contributes to the organisation's data science strategy, ensuring ethicalAI principles, best practices in model governance, and a data-driven culture areembedded across the business., * Develop and deploy machine learning models and AI solutions that addressbusiness challenges and improve operational efficiencies.

• Collaborate with data engineers and insight analysts to build scalable datapipelines and integrate models into production environments.
• Apply statistical analysis, predictive modelling, and optimisation techniques tostructured and unstructured data.
• Implement MLOps best practices, ensuring automated model training,versioning, monitoring, and governance. Support the development of NGED's AI strategy, contributing to ethical AI andresponsible machine learning adoption.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) to understand datasets, identify trends,and derive business insights.
• Work closely with stakeholders to translate business needs into data science usecases and recommend appropriate methodologies.
• Optimise and validate machine learning models, ensuring robustness, scalability,and explainability.
• Contribute to research and innovation within data science, exploring newmethodologies and staying updated with industry advancements.
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of technical documentation, ensuringtransparency in data science processes and decisions.
• Participate in Agile development processes, contributing to iterative modeldevelopment, feedback loops, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Ensure compliance with data privacy, security, and regulatory requirementswhen handling sensitive data.
• Share best practices and fostering a collaborative, learning-driven teamenvironment.

• Strong decision-making skills, analytical mindset, and problem-solvingcapabilities.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the abilityto explain complex models to non-technical audiences.
• Experience working within Agile development frameworks, including Scrum andKanban.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams and influencedecision-making through data-driven insights.
• Proficiency in Python and/or R, with experience in machine learning frameworkssuch as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or Scikit-learn.
• Strong SQL skills for querying and transforming structured datasets.
• Experience with cloud-based AI platforms such as AWS SageMaker, Azure ML,or Google Vertex AI.
• Understanding of MLOps practices, including CI/CD for ML, automatedretraining, and model monitoring.
• Hands-on experience with big data technologies such as Spark, Databricks, orSnowflake.
• Knowledge of data governance, ethical AI principles, and regulatory compliancein machine learning applications.
• Ability to conduct exploratory data analysis (EDA) and visualise insights using BItools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.).
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and containerisation technologies(Docker, Kubernetes) for deploying ML models.
• Experience in mentoring junior team members and fostering a culture ofknowledge sharing.

• Competitive Salary: circa £55,000 - £65,000 per annum (dependent on location, capability, and experience).

Additional benefits:

• Flexible benefits such as a cycle scheme, share incentive plan, technology schemes
• Ongoing career development and support to help you cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, examination fees and time off for study leave - so long as it is relevant to your role
• Access to apps such as digital GP service for round the clock access to GP video consultations and NHS repeat prescriptions, wellbeing app to support your health and fitness
• Access to Work + Family Space, providing support and resources for work and family life, including paid emergency childcare and eldercare

At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it's so much more than that. National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don't plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, join us as a Data Scientist and find your superpower. National Grid is hiring a Data Scientist for our Electricity Distribution (NGED) team. This role is designated as hybrid, with an expectation of one or two days per month in one of our offices. Requirements may vary based on business needs and company policy.