Data Scientist

What you'll do

• In Japan we are growing fast. You will work with every business team and across the whole data lifecycle.
• You'll focus on building out data pipelines, reports and dashboards that serve our ops, sales, marketing and finance teams.
• You’ll need to ensure our analyses are robust - making sure the right questions are being asked and that the business decisions we take are truly supported by the data.
• We’re proud of our science & analytics platform, and you’ll work to make sure that it is well engineered, understandable, and accessible to non-specialists as its capabilities grow.
• You’ll become a domain expert, supporting management’s questions and powering our continued growth.

You don’t need prior energy supplier experience (we will teach you that). We’re looking for someone with the following qualities

• Passionate about working in energy and contributing to the energy transitionHigh level language skills in English, ability to speak Japanese would be a plus
• Curious and self driven - it is essential you have the initiative to make decisions yourself, and can find novel solutions to problems without lots of help and support
• Highly data literate and numerate -  can make sense of lots of data and shape it into a coherent story
• Learns fast and is enthusiastic about learning new technologies.

Has an engineering mindset – passionate about building robust tools, with experience in:

• Python for preprocessing & modelling of data, and engineering data pipelines
• Writing queries in SQL
• Building reports and dashboards in a BI tool
• A/B testing and causal inference

Our Data Stack

• We run a modern cloud data platform made up of the below components:
• AWS cloud infrastructure
• Databricks for data warehouse storage and querying
• dbt for data modelling and transformations
• Spark for large data processing
• Python data ecosystem as main scripting and analytics languageJupyter for adhoc analytics
• Airflow for task scheduling
• Kubernetes for data services and task orchestration
• Github, Circle CI, Grafana and Prometheus for version control, deployment and monitoring
• Streamlit, Databricks Dashboards and Tableau as our BI tool front ends

Why else you'll love it here

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership and most recently The Sunday Times, Best Places To Work 2023 and again in 2024.
• Visit our Global perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits