Principal Data Scientist at Wood Mackenzie leading AI-native capability development for the Energy & Natural Resources consulting portfolio. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive revenue growth and deliver AI-driven analytical products.
Responsibilities
Lead design and development of AI-native systems leveraging domain-specific ontologies, knowledge graphs, network models, and agentic reasoning frameworks
Provide technical oversight across multiple projects, ensuring modelling approaches align with high-value client workflows
Work closely with embedded SMEs to encode domain knowledge into machine-readable structures that enable causal reasoning across global energy systems
Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deploy scalable pipelines integrating data from upstream, LNG, power, renewables, carbon, metals, and macroeconomic domains
Serve as the primary AI technical authority for consulting engagements, shaping proposal design, analytical methodologies, and delivery quality
Mentor senior and mid-level data scientists, establish modelling standards, and define best practices for reproducibility, evaluation, and model governance
Engage with clients to understand strategic decision workflows and translate them into AI-driven analytical products. Partner with product, research, and data engineering teams to ensure Synoptic outputs can scale into commercial products.
Requirements
8+ years of experience delivering advanced machine learning, graph-based modelling, or AI systems in production
Expertise in ontology design, structural modelling, or knowledge graphs applied to complex, interconnected domains
Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary analytical teams
Experience working on consulting or client-facing analytics projects with executive stakeholders
Proven ability to design modelling architectures that scale from prototype to product.
Advanced proficiency in Python, ML frameworks, and cloud-native pipelines
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to articulate complex models to both technical and commercial audiences.
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