Senior Data Scientist - Smart Charging

Senior Data Scientist - Smart Charging

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist with a background in Python-based modelling, optimisation and expert data insight to lead our smart charging analytical offering.

As part of the EV Analytics team, within Product Management & Engineering, you will work closely with our software, data engineering and operational teams to successfully develop and deploy cloud pipelines to optimise the charging strategy on our EV fleet sites globally. You will be the main developer of models and data flows in the pipeline with additional responsibilities including the technical leadership and planning for the domain.

As an experienced member of the team, you will be a role model for coding and analytical excellence, mentoring colleagues and being a key point of contact for stakeholders across the business. Utilising your knowledge of energy tariffs, grid services and energy markets you will work with power procurement and flexibility service colleagues to maintain holistic commercial optimisation as the north star of our smart charging offering.

- Leading development of our charging strategy optimisation pipeline: writing python code for data processing, physics-based simulation, commercial optimisation and data insight.

- Diving into the operational, commercial and technical details of EV charging sites to tailor our modelling and optimisation pipelines to each customer and geography across our global portfolio, adapting to local constraints and opportunities in each case.

- Managing the roll out of smart charging across our international portfolio and in partnership with business development and customer success colleagues, you’ll use data and expert insight to highlight the value of smart charging to customers and help resolve operational concerns

- Work with large fleet and charging datasets to train machine-learning models for predicting vehicle energy consumption or correlate physics-based models for virtual recreation of charging operations as a digital twin simulation.

- Testing and cloud-deployment of code whilst ensuring alignment of ways of working with other technical teams

- Pairing with other team members contributing to the smart charging codebase and reviewing pull requests to maintain coding standards.

- Strategic planning of the smart charging analytical roadmap, aligning the delivery and dependencies of new features with product managers and balancing customer value delivery with reliability and effort

- Management of team members working in the smart charging domain including work planning, reviewing and 1:1s.

- Engage with onboarding and operational teams to define data requirements and testing plans in support of model development and correlation (e.g. charging or vehicle energy consumption).

- Keep up to date with evolving smart charging opportunities and business cases, and the expanding needs of the business with a growing number of technologies and geographies supported.

- Drive innovation in our modelling, analysis and data insight approaches through L&D and trialing novel concepts.

- STEM degree (e.g. engineering, applied physics, data science)

- 4+ years of relevant professional experience working in modelling, simulation, analytics and optimisation preferably in an EV or energy-adjacent domain

- 5+ years’ experience with Python (pandas, scipy, plotly, scikit-learn, and other scientific / data libraries) and it’s developer tooling (e.g. uv, ruff, mypy)

- A pragmatic approach to problem solving, follower of the 80/20 rule balancing outcome with effort and comfortable working with imperfect real-world data

- Solid SDLC and collaborative software practices including GIT for version control, testing, CICD, environment management etc. Ability to mentor others on advanced use of Python.

- Technical background with good understanding of the underlying physical principles related to electric vehicles and the energy sector

- Familiarity with energy markets, tariffs, grid services and commercial aspects of the energy sector

- Confidence in working with autonomy, spearheading areas of technical development and representing our technical expertise both internally and externally

- Demonstrable leadership in the planning and delivery of projects, accountability to senior stakeholders and line management of team members

- A working knowledge of data engineering and cloud platform concepts

- Excellent mathematical, analytical and problem-solving ability

- Excellent professional communication, reporting and presentation skills

- Experience with cloud providers and cloud infrastructure deployment (preferably AWS).

- A deeper understanding of EV charging and the various facets: charging physics, charger / battery / system electrical performance & limitations, charging control & OCPP

- Expertise in fleet operations: fleet parking dynamics, scheduling, depot operations.

- Additional software engineering skills – (e.g. Linux, SQL, AWS and network design)

- Additional EV / Energy engineering experience not limited to design, development, analysis, testing or controls of EV / Energy systems

- Additional data science experience, in particular related to EV fleets, charging and energy markets

- PhD in a relevant field of engineering or data science