Data Scientist

At Octopus Energy Trading, we’re on a mission to reshape the future of energy.

Key Responsibilities

• Exploring the types of data needed to effectively trade the GB intraday power market
• Building, improving and maintaining models to forecast electricity demand and renewable generation, primarily in GB but developing into all of Western Europe;
• Finding high quality, novel data sources to base our forecasts off of;
• Development on forecasting framework and tools;
• Maintaining and automating forecasting processes, whilst building in checks and alerting;
• Utilising these forecasting models to build or enhance our price forecasts
• Collaborating with Trading, Renewables, Flexibility and other teams to utilise our combined knowledge and data.

Requirements

• Experience with Python is essential;
• A good understanding of what forecasting techniques to use and the ability to build a simple baseline and quickly iterate;
• Ability to communicate your approach, including its strengths and limitations;
• Able to quickly understand commercial and industry concepts;
• Team player excited at the idea of ownership across lots of different projects and tools;
• Passion for driving towards Net Zero;
• Experience with Machine Learning is essential;
• Experience in the electricity industry in GB would be useful but not required.

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