Data Scientist at Assembly building and automating media intelligence models. Collaborating with consultancy leadership to define analytical approaches to business challenges.
About the role
- Head of Data leading Aurora’s data strategy and operations for power market analytics software. Overseeing data acquisition, engineering, and governance across teams.
Responsibilities
- Own our data acquisition strategy: ensure we source, scrape, or license the right datasets to support all current and future software products
- Oversee our scraping provider(s), ensuring robustness, coverage, uptime, and proactive issue resolution
- Continuously evaluate and fill gaps across market data, asset data, weather data, geospatial data, grid/nodal layers, and third-party feeds
- Work with development team to build and maintain pipelines that clean, transform, validate, and enrich data to production quality standards
- Ensure all datasets are stored, versioned, catalogued, and documented — with clear SLAs for updates and maintenance
- Implement monitoring, observability, and automated quality checks to ensure data accuracy and timeliness
- Partner deeply with Product Managers to understand the data needs of each product: Historical market data, Asset performance and metadata, Geospatial map layers (grid representation, nodal forecasts, land constraints, etc.), Simulation outputs and time-series from Aurora modelling
- Ensure each product team has well-structured, well-documented, and performant access to the data they need
- Work with Engineering to design efficient APIs and data services for internal and client-facing consumption
- Develop high-quality data dashboards on EOS for internal and client use
- Partner with UX and Dev teams to build compelling, interactive data visualisations using our new charting library
- Provide guidance and templates that enable other teams to build dashboards and visualisations consistently and at speed
- Work with Research teams to establish company-wide standards for data quality, naming conventions, and metadata
- Maintain a comprehensive, searchable data catalog covering both internal and external datasets
- Ensure data lineage, documentation, and ownership are clear and consistently maintained across teams
- Champion best practices for data stewardship across engineering, product, and research
- Lead and grow an existing team of data analysts across Oxford and Gurugram
- Establish standards for data governance, documentation, and lifecycle management across Aurora
- Act as the internal thought leader for data quality, architecture, and visualisation
Requirements
- Strong experience in data engineering, data platform ownership, or leading data teams in a B2B software or analytics environment
- Proven ability to build production-grade data pipelines (Python, ETL, AWS, etc.)
- Deep familiarity with time-series data, geospatial data, and API-driven data delivery
- Demonstrated ability to define data standards, contribution contracts, and decision boundaries in environments with uneven expertise, local variation, and decentralised ownership
- Ability to translate analytical needs into robust data models and scalable data architectures
- Excellence in stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
- Strong prioritisation and systems mindset: able to simplify complex data landscapes, sequence foundational work overtime, and optimise for organisational leverage as well as feature delivery
- **Desirable attributes:**
- Experience with power markets, energy assets, or other complex technical domains
- Familiarity with modern data visualisation frameworks and dashboarding systems
- Exposure to UX-driven design principles for data communication
- Experience working with outsourced scraping providers or building scraping systems in-house
Benefits
- A pivotal leadership role shaping the data backbone of Aurora’s software products
- Opportunity to influence product strategy and client experience at scale
- High autonomy, high ownership, and the ability to build a function from the ground up
- A collaborative, mission-driven environment focused on transforming the global energy transition
- A fun, informal, collaborative, and international work culture
- A competitive salary package
- Access to regular coaching and mentoring sessions, and the opportunity to learn from experienced professionals
- Some of the benefits we include are:
- Private Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Parental Support
- Salary-Exchange Pension
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Local Oxford Discounts
- Cycle-to-work Scheme
- Flu Jabs
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