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Role overview
Job description
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Get stuck in. This is a leadership role, but we’d expect you to spend most of your time coding at first:
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Research fundamental data feeds
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Identify and execute contracts with the best meteorology providers
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Build generation forecasts for specific renewable plants (solar, wind or hydro)
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Build system demand forecasts, how much demand, generation and interconnection will there be on the system at any given point in time
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Combine the volume forecasts to generate price forecasts at varying time points, critically day-ahead and real time.
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Ensure detailed understanding of real time price formulae and seek close replication in our processes
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Quickly understand the requirements, identify optimal resource for a lean and efficient team, and lead recruitment of a high quality team
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Designing a modular forecasting engine that can quickly adapt to different provincial market rules, ancillary service requirements, and varying price signals
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Set and communicate the strategic direction for the software
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Utilise LLM models for efficient development. Potential opportunity to partner with Anthropic or similar for case study project
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Ensure (with necessary support) that we are acting in accordance with local data security standards
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Propose and implement the desired tech stack, likely hosted on AliCloud.
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Be a strong example of Octopus culture and work closely with Octopus and partner teams
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Experience building and leading high performing data science and analytics teams
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Experience with sophisticated machine learning techniques
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Full stack to be defined (and you’ll have the chance to influence) but proficiency with Python and SQL is vital
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Experience managing complex data pipelines and visualisation suites
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Excellent communication skills to relay complicated concepts in a way that everyone can understand
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Openness to moving to an East Asian market
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Prior experience in energy markets preferred
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Speaking both English and Mandarin advantageous but not essential
About this listing
- Source: Octopus Energy Group's official careers site (via Lever) · last confirmed on the source 29 Oct 2026
- Posted 9 Sept 2026
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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!
Department · Octopus Energy UK 🇬🇧
Hiring company
Octopus Energy Group
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