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Senior Data Specialist
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27 days ago
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Senior Data Specialist
Alex Staff Agency
Role Description We need someone who understands data deeply and uses Python to wrangle it — not a platform engineer, not a pure pipeline builder, but a data specialist who's comfortable with research, investigation, and the unglamorous work of making messy energy market data actually usable. You'll spend significant time on tasks like: - Mapping BM units to power plants and fuel types - Reconciling legacy data formats with current ones - Ensuring consistency between different Elexon message types - Cleaning time-series data (outliers, gaps, overlaps) Some of this requires genuine investigation — cross-referencing sources, making judgment calls, documenting edge cases. There's no API that solves these problems for you. Python is your primary tool (Pandas, Numpy, standard libraries) to minimise manual effort, but you should be comfortable that some detective work is unavoidable. If you find satisfaction in truly understanding a dataset's structure and quirks — rather than just piping data through and hoping for the best — this role is for you. Qualifications - Strong Python skills for data work — fluent with pandas, comfortable writing clean, testable code, and can build reusable data processing logic. - Solid SQL skills — complex queries, window functions, CTEs in PostgreSQL. - Experience with messy, real-world data — reconciliation, cleaning, or mapping work. - Methodical and detail-oriented — notice inconsistencies and want to understand root causes. - Good documentation habits — understanding that undocumented mappings and assumptions are technical debt. - Self-directed — able to own ambiguous problems, do research, and communicate findings clearly. Requirements - Map BM units from Elexon to their corresponding power plants, substations, and fuel types. - Map substations to ETYS zones and grid supply points. - Build and maintain reference/master datasets that link identifiers across disparate sources. - Document mappings, assumptions, and known limitations clearly for downstream users. - Reconcile legacy data formats with current formats. - Ensure consistency between different Elexon message types. - Investigate discrepancies between data sources and determine authoritative values. - Clean time-series data: detect outliers, fill gaps appropriately, resolve overlapping or duplicate timestamps. - Develop reusable Python-based cleaning routines that can be applied across datasets. - Write and maintain Python data grabbers for energy market APIs. - Build dbt models to transform raw data into clean, analysis-ready datasets. - Orchestrate workflows via GitHub Actions. - Design PostgreSQL schemas that reflect your understanding of the domain. Benefits - Remote-first with async collaboration (Slack, GitHub, documented decisions). - Core overlap with UK business hours expected (at least 4 hours daily). - Competitive compensation based on location and experience. - Plenty of opportunities for learning and professional growth. - B2B contract with a paid vacation.
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