Senior Data Scientist

EDF Energy; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy provider is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to provide data leadership in their Pricing team. The role involves conducting detailed analysis, developing data products, and advising on data strategy. Ideal candidates will hold a Master's degree in a relevant field and have experience in data science with strong coding skills in Python or R. This position offers a flexible working environment and a competitive compensation package.

Benefits

Market-leading pension scheme

Health insurance

Gym membership

Electric vehicle leasing

Product discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in data science in a commercial environment.
• Demonstrated leadership in data roles.
• Strong understanding of statistical and machine learning methods.

Responsibilities

• Conduct analysis across the customer portfolio.
• Develop and deploy statistical and machine learning models.
• Shape the data strategy and coach team members.

Skills

Data analysis

Python

R

Machine learning

Statistical modeling

Data visualization

Education

Master’s degree in a data-relevant field

Job description

About the Role

At EDF, success is personal. Here you'll develop a career that's unique to you. Whether you want to move horizontally, deepen your specialty, or advance through the levels – it's your journey, powered by us. Join us and be part of our mission to help Britain achieve Net Zero.

The Opportunity

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will provide data leadership in the Pricing team. You will conduct analysis across the customer portfolio and down to the individual customer / transaction level, to inform decision making across the business and to build data products that create new insights, automate decision making, and drive actions that maximise value for EDF and our clients. You will advise on data strategy and support the development of the data capabilities of the team.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a starting salary of £68,800 and a market‑leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We're talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone's welcome. We're on an action‑oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we support you to pursue a career that's unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you'll be doing

As part of the Pricing team, you'll contribute to commercial pricing analysis, bespoke pricing, in‑contract reconciliations, cost stack reporting, pricing policy oversight, and pricing system maintenance with a focus on automating key processes.

You'll provide technical oversight of data science outputs, interacting with stakeholders across the business to design robust statistical and machine learning models and tools. Working hands‑on, you'll develop and deploy models and pipelines, monitor performance, and define data requirements.

You'll help shape our data strategy, coach team members, and may manage junior Data Scientists or graduates in the future.

Who you are

You hold a Master’s degree in a data‑relevant field such as Maths, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering or Psychology, and you have experience in data science in a commercial environment, and have demonstrated leadership in that role. With experience in relevant coding languages (Python or R), you're curious, innovative and commercially minded, turning data into clear, actionable insights. You bring expertise in data analysis, visualisation, software development best practices, and statistical and machine learning methods, and communicate complex ideas simply to both technical and non‑technical audiences.

If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you!

Closing date for applications

Sunday 16th November 2025

Hiring Manager

Ian Hamilton

Location

Flexible

Success is personal. It's your journey, powered by us. Join us and we'll help Britain achieve Net Zero together.