Senior Data Specialist

Overview

We need someone who understands data deeply and uses Python to wrangle it — not a platform engineer, not a pure pipeline builder, but a data specialist who is comfortable with research, investigation, and the unglamorous work of making messy energy market data actually usable. You’ll spend significant time on tasks like mapping BM units to power plants and fuel types, reconciling legacy data formats with current ones, ensuring consistency between different Elexon message types, and cleaning time-series data (outliers, gaps, overlaps). Some of this requires genuine investigation — cross-referencing sources, making judgment calls, documenting edge cases. There’s no API that solves these problems for you.

Python is your primary tool (Pandas, NumPy, standard libraries) to minimise manual effort, but you should be comfortable that some detective work is unavoidable. If you find satisfaction in truly understanding a dataset’s structure and quirks — rather than ...