Lead Data Scientist

at  Switchee

Base Pay: £60 - 70k
Individual IC4 / M2 as per our Career Development Framework.
EMI Share Options: £10,000
We’ve calculated this compensation in line with our Benchmarking Philosophy.
An exciting opportunity to join a high-growth technology scale-up focused on eliminating fuel poverty and improving living standards in Social Housing as Lead Data Scientist..

ROLE:

Location: This is a remote-first role with a mix of in-person team meetings, with mandatory 2-Day Quarterly Company Conferences and optional Monthly Socials in London and Birmingham.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a Lead Data Scientist to join Switchee’s growing Data team and take a leading role in the delivery of our data science roadmap. This is a player-manager role, acting as both a senior individual contributor Data Scientist as well as the Data Science team lead. It is expected you will have a significant individual contribution to the planning, architecture, development and deployment of our data science insights and algorithms, whilst also providing guidance and mentorship to those within your team.
Data is critical to Switchee’s future. The insights we generate help tenants in social housing save money and energy and live more comfortably. They also help social landlords manage their properties more effectively so they can increase their reach, helping more people and targeting their resources most effectively.
A key goal of our Data Science function is to enable Switchee and our customers to make more informed decisions by turning data into insights and clear actions. You will be working on problems across areas including modelling energy consumption, modelling thermal performance of buildings, air quality and mould growth, turning large complex datasets into powerful insights. The work you deliver will help to drive a real change of outcomes in the world around us.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Your key responsibilities include the following:

• Work closely with the Product team to deliver powerful insights and algorithms to our customers, including providing technical oversight/ leadership and ensuring timely delivery.
• Work alongside our Data Engineering and DevOps teams to develop, manage and maintain our Data Science Platform, ensuring your team has the infrastructure required to successfully deliver their work.
• Design, architect, develop, test, monitor and maintain data science models and algorithms using tools such as Python and Spark.
• Proactively identify external/ industry data sets to support our insight offerings, collaborating with our data engineering team to integrate these within our data platform.
• Drive best practice and high standards in all work across the team, such as maintaining good documentation, implementing data science best practices and ensuring effective team processes.
• Work closely with the Data Analysis team to validate our insight offerings, gathering feedback on their impact in practice and working closely with the Data Engineering team to identify and implement data requirements that will support our insight offerings.
• Line management and mentorship of Data Scientists, setting clear performance expectations, identifying development needs and providing coaching, mentorship and guidance where required.

You will work closely with the Product, Data Analysis and Data Engineering teams to deliver production grade data science models, enhancing the capabilities and functionality of our product. You will report into Switchee’s Head of Data, and have line management responsibilities for two Data Scientists.