AddressLocation
Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford
About The Job
The responsibilities for the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero for 2023 are as follows:
- Delivering security of energy supply
- Ensuring properly functioning energy markets
- Encouraging greater energy efficiency
- Seizing the opportunities of net zero to lead the world in new green industries
For 2023, our priorities are:
- Ensure security of energy supply this winter, next winter and in the longer-term – bringing down energy bills and reducing inflation.
- Ensure the UK is on track to meet its legally binding Net Zero commitments and support economic growth by significantly speeding up delivery of network infrastructure and domestic energy production.
- Improve the energy efficiency of UK homes, businesses and public sector buildings to meet the 15% demand reduction ambition.
- Deliver current schemes to support energy consumers with their bills and develop options for long-term reform to improve how the electricity market works for families and businesses.
- Seize the economic benefits of Net Zero, including the jobs and growth created through investment in new green industries.
- Pass the Energy Bill to support the emerging CCUS and hydrogen sectors; to update the governance of the energy system; and to reduce the time taken to consent offshore wind.
Our Inclusive Environment
We are building an inclusive culture to make the Department a brilliant place to work where our people feel valued, have a voice and can be their authentic selves.
We value difference and diversity, not only because we believe it is the right thing to do, but because it will help us be more innovative and make better decisions.
We offer first-class flexible working benefits, excellent employee well-being support and a great pension. We are fortunate to have a range of excellent staff networks and are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We will support talented people from all backgrounds to build a career and thrive.
We actively welcome applications from anyone who shares our commitment to inclusion. We will fully support candidates with a disability or long-term condition who require adjustments in our recruitment process.
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Job Description
The energy statistics team monitor all aspects of energy use within the UK, and our work is vital for numerous flagship government policies including delivering Net Zero, eliminating fuel poverty and maintaining security of energy supply. We are looking for up to two experienced Data Scientists to join our existing in-house digital transformation team, to expedite our adoption of digital best practice.
You will join our Grade 6-led Data Systems Development team, a small data science team operating within the wider Energy Statistics division. We provide technical support and data science training to around 40 analyst customers, enabling them to transform old data processing workflows into Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAPs) written in Python and SQL, with Git version control. You will also be a technical maintainer of our in-house RAP-enabling Python package, delivering new functionality, managing planned releases and hotfixes, and prioritising team development work through our established agile workflow.
The team also includes two excellent junior Data Scientists whose development and activity management you will support, likely in a line management capacity.
If you are an experienced Data Scientist who is keen on a role that balances technical code development and supporting data science development in others then we look forward to hearing from you.
Person specification
The energy statistics team monitor all aspects of energy use within the UK, and our work is vital for numerous flagship government policies including delivering Net Zero, eliminating fuel poverty and maintaining security of energy supply. We are looking for up to two experienced Data Scientists to join our existing in-house digital transformation team, to expedite our adoption of digital best practice.
You will join our Grade 6-led Data Systems Development team, a small data science team operating within the wider Energy Statistics division. We provide technical support and data science training to around 40 analyst customers, enabling them to transform old data processing workflows into Reproducible Analytical Pipelines (RAPs) written in Python and SQL, with Git version control. You will also be a technical maintainer of our in-house RAP-enabling Python package, delivering new functionality, managing planned releases and hotfixes, and prioritising team development work through our established agile workflow.
The team also includes two excellent junior Data Scientists whose development and activity management you will support, likely in a line management capacity.
If you are an experienced Data Scientist who is keen on a role that balances technical code development and supporting data science development in others then we look forward to hearing from you
Skills And Experience
We would love to hear from your if you can demonstrate experience against the following criteria, which will be assessed in your personal statement:
- Developing data science capability: You can support others to develop their data science capability and apply data science skills in their own work [Note that we will assess this lead criterion at sift stage via a separate technical competency, so you do not need to also cover this criterion in your personal statement]
- Programming: You have strong expertise in processing data using either Python or R, and are keen to use both Python and SQL as part of this role.
- Data engineering: You have experience using Git for code collaboration and are able to support others with basic Git usage. You are confident using data science tools commonly used for RAP, such as SQL databases, IDEs, package managers, common Python/R libraries, dashboards or reproducible reporting. (This list is illustrative, not exhaustive, and experience in every one of these is not required)
- Data science innovation: You demonstrate broad knowledge of data science tools and techniques, which you have creatively deployed to solve analytical or business problems.
- Business delivery: You can design and manage processes to gather and establish user needs, and deliver technical solutions that deliver the best user solution given the available resource and time constraints.
- Communication: You can effectively communicate technical data science concepts (such as Git branching or package management) to less experienced colleagues. You can effectively listen to colleagues who are sharing details of technical issues, and involve relevant teams and managers as appropriate.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
Technical Skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Developing data science capability https://ddat-capability-framew...
- Programming and build (data science) https://ddat-capability-framew...
- Delivering business impact https://ddat-capability-framew...
We only ask for evidence of these technical skills on your application form:
- Developing data science capability https://ddat-capability-framew...
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £50,305, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £13,582 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:
- A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
- Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme , with an average employer contribution of 27%.
- A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
- An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
- Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.
- A hybrid office/home based working model where staff will spend a norm of 40-60% of their time in the office (minimum of 40%) over a month with flex dependent on balancing business and individual need.
