Streets Data Scientist

GeoPlace LLP; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work from central London or home

25 days holiday per year

10% learning & development time

Group Personal Pension (4%)

Udemy training subscription

Group Income Protection Scheme

Life Assurance (3x salary)

Interest-free season ticket loan

Cycle to Work scheme

Job summary

GeoPlace LLP in London guides national NSG data quality, supporting Local Street Gazetteers and custodians. The role blends hands-on data correction with building automated quality checks and tooling to scale improvements.

You will monitor submissions, perform root-cause analysis of errors, and collaborate with ELT developers to bridge data work and pipelines.

Qualifications

• Experience with spatial data and GIS tooling in a professional or academic setting.
• Ability to profile data quality, detect issues and investigate root causes.
• Clear communication of technical findings to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Act as first technical point of contact for LSG custodians and respond to submissions.
• Support custodians with compliance errors, healthcheck issues and exceptions.
• Profile street data for quality metrics and design automated checks for scale.
• Assist with system testing, data loads, conflation and matching against NSG data.
• Provide technical input to communications and contribute to case studies.

Skills

GIS

Data quality

Root-cause analysis

Data profiling

Communication

Tools

QGIS

ArcGIS

GeoPackage

Shapefile

GML

GeoJSON

Job description

Toimprovethequality,consistencyandanalyticalvalueoftheNationalStreetGazetteer (NSG) - the authoritative geospatial dataset of highways in England and Wales.

The post holder supports local highway authorities in the submission and incorporation of street data from Local Street Gazetteers (LSGs) and third-party suppliers, and applies data science techniques at national scale: profiling authority submissions, detecting errors, investigatingrootcauses,andbuildingcheckstomakeitsimpleforcustodianstoimprovethe quality of their data.

This is a hands-on technical role. Roughly half thework is direct custodiansupport and error resolution; the other half is analysis, tooling and automation that bridges the gap between the work of the Data Insights team and the ELT Pipeline Developers.

Posted: 09 September 2026

Key Roles

Custodian support and data resolution

ActasafirsttechnicalpointofcontactforLSGcustodiansinresponsetofiles submitted to GeoPlace.

SupportingLSGcustodianswithcomplianceerrors,healthcheckerrorresolutionand exceptions.

MonitoringtheAnnualImprovementSchedulelevelsandproactivelycontacting custodians.

Represent GeoPlace at Regional Custodian Group meetings in England and Wales

Analysis, quality measurement and automation

Profilestreetdatatoquantifyquality:completeness,currency,internalconsistency, and conformance to the Data Transfer Format and NSG Data Entry Conventions.

Designandimplementautomateddataqualitychecksthatrunacrossallcontributing authorities,includingstatisticalandrule-basedanomalydetectiontosurfaceunusual submissions - sudden volume changes, geometry churn, orphaned or duplicated records, implausible attribute distributions.

Assistwithotherdataloads (forexampletheOSMasterMapHighwaysNetwork), including conflation and matching of external network data against the NSG.

Supportsystemtestinganduserassurancetesting,includingthedesignoftest datasets and automated regression checks against known data conditions.

Assistingwithsystemtestingasrequired.

Other Responsibilities

Providetechnicaladviceandcontenttothecommunicationsteam,contributing analysis and evidence to case studies and blogs relating to the NSG.

Adhocspatialanalysisinsupportof GeoPlace,itsstakeholdersandwidergovernment initiatives.

Contributetothedocumentationofdatamodels,businessrulesandanalytical methods so that work is transparent and repeatable by others.

Skills

Dataqualityanalysisandroot-causeinvestigation-abletomovefromasymptomin a dataset to a defensible explanation of why it occurred.

Analytical and statistical thinking - comfortable summarising distributions, identifyingoutliers,andjudgingwhetherachangeinthedataismeaningfulornoise.

Communication-abletoexplaintechnicalfindingsclearlytotechnicalandnon-technical audiences alike, in writing and in conversation, including to external authority staff.

Attentiontodetail,combinedwiththejudgementtoknowwhichanomaliesmatter.

GIStoolssuchasQGISorArcGIS,andfamiliaritywithgeospatiallibrariesandformats (GeoPackage, Shapefile, GML, GeoJSON).

ExperienceofatleastoneoftheUKaddressandstreetdatastandards -BS7666,the NSG Data Transfer Format, USRNs and UPRNs, OS MasterMap Highways Network, NGD Transport Street Manager

Linearreferencingandnetworkdata -experiencewithlinearreferencednetworks, routing, or topology validation.

GoodknowledgeofHighwaysLegislationincludingNRSWA,HAandTMA

Knowledge & Experience

Aminimumofoneyear’sexperienceworkingwithspatialdatainaprofessionalor academicsetting.

ExperienceofGISorotherspatialdatatools.

Experience of working with, or within, local government, highways, utilities, transportoracomparabledata-intensivepublicsectordomainisanadvantage,but not a requirement.

Please note: This role is based at our central London office, with the ability to work from home. Some regular business travel across England and Wales is also required. During your onboarding and probation period, we'd like to agree a workable office visit schedule with you, ideally averaging around one day a week, to support you insettling into the role

Vision and Values

The post holder will undertake other duties as appropriate to the post to support and contribute to the delivery of job role and the GeoPlace Vision, Mission and Objectives as described on the GeoPlace website.

Compliance

Conform to, and ensure team members conform to, established Quality, Information Security, IT, Health and Safety, Equality and other GeoPlace policies.

Employee Benefits

• Ability to work in the central London office or work from home
• 25 days holiday (in addition to normal and public bank holidays) per year
• 10% of your working week can be spent taking part in Learning and Development
• Group Personal Pension (minimum employer contribution is 4%)
• Employee subscription to Udemy training
• Group Income Protection Scheme (on completion of probation)
• Life Assurance Scheme – 3 x salary (on completion of probation)
• Interest free season ticket loan (on completion of probation)
• Cycle to Work scheme (on completion of probation)

Interviews will be conducted via video technology and in person.

Please ensure your eligibility to work in the UK before applying.

GeoPlace is an equal opportunity employer and is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, age, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, race, or pregnancy and maternity, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.