Help us make a big green dent in the universe. We're on a mission to drive the global renewable energy revolution, and we need loads more people to help us make our vision a reality. Since 2015, Octopus has been on a mission to bring affordable, green energy to the world. With the help of the Kraken technology platform, we’ve become the largest electricity supplier in the UK and now have growing retail operations in 7 other countries. We’ve reinvented energy products with smart, data driven tariffs to balance customer demand with renewable generation - and we’re the biggest investor in renewable generation in the UK. Our partnership with Tokyo Gas has brought the Octopus magic to Japan, and we’re looking to add another data scientist to our team in Tokyo. Data science and analytics has been at the heart of Octopus’s success, driving insights across all facets of the business. We drive understanding of the performance and optimisation of operations teams. Our deep knowledge of the industry and the market allows us to design innovative smart tariffs. We crunch billions of data points daily to supply and manage customers’ energy usage. We do it by hiring smart, curious, and self-driven humans, enabling them with modern data tools and giving them lots of autonomy. Our data team consists of scientists and analysts in each of our retail businesses, and a global data engineering team to support them.
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!
