RESP Senior Data Analyst

About the role

National Energy System Operator (NESO) recognises the potential of bright and talented individuals, and we encourage you to join us as Great Britain’s energy system undergoes an ambitious, exciting, and vital transformation. Together with industry, we are creating a cleaner, more sustainable energy future.

As a RESP Senior Data Analyst, you will play a crucial role shaping the foundational approaches to data management, analysis and exchange required for the new RESP processes. You will help create end-to-end data processes to ensure data inputs and outputs are reliable, high quality, and transparent to support the RESP process. You will help shape our approaches to spatial data analysis and work with a wide range of stakeholder to agree data formats to enable effective data exchange. This role will provide you the opportunity to shape and pioneer some new approaches leveraging Data Best Practice.

The role will be highly visible within the National Energy System Operator (ESO) as well as with the wider industry, giving you an opportunity to engage with a wide range of stakeholders. Therefore, great communication and stakeholder management skills are crucial.

This role can be based from Wokingham, Warwick, Glasgow or London, and we continue to offer hybrid working from office and home. We are open to full time and part time applicants, as well as flexible working arrangements

About us

The creation of National Energy System Operator (NESO) is driven by an urgent need to unify and optimise our approach to energy. A more integrated and coordinated strategy is needed to meet the unprecedented challenges of climate change, ensuring secure energy supply, and keeping costs manageable for consumers.

Join us and empower your potential, energise our team, and be part of something bigger.

Your energy, our future, together.

About the National Energy System Operator (NESO)

In Autumn of 2024, the ESO transitioned to National Energy System Operator, or NESO for short. Previously denoted as the Future System Operator (or FSO), the new National Energy System Operator is the independent body responsible for planning Great Britain’s electricity and gas networks and operating the electricity system.  

The ESO, including all of its existing roles, are now at the heart of the new National Energy System Operator. As NESO, we will build on our existing roles, capabilities, and ways of working significantly to create an organisation the energy system and its users’ need. Our new capabilities will enable us to look across vectors, including electricity, natural gas and hydrogen, and crucially consider the trade-offs between them.

The organisation is set up as a public corporation with its own Board of independent directors, with complete operational independence from government, the regulator and any and all commercial interest. As was the ESO, NESO will be licenced and regulated by Ofgem through price control agreements and obligated to identify optimal solutions to system operations and planning in the most sustainable, affordable and secure way for all.

The time to deliver is now. As part of our team, you won’t just be touching the lives of almost everyone in Great Britain – you’ll be shaping the way we use and consume energy for generations to come.

Key Accountabilites

• Identify and develop the end-to-end data flows required to support the entire RESP process.
• Working within established data handling guidelines and parameters, collect, collate, and cleanse raw data and convert into useable formats. Apply an end-to-end mindset, understanding both where the data has come from and how it will / can be used to drive meaningful decision support the RESP process.
• Work with granular forecast data for the electricity and gas systems and compare NESO data with data produced by other network companies. This will lead to a comparison between the top-down national dataset, disaggregation to RESP regions based on NESO data and a bottom-up regional dataset aggregation to RESP regions based on DNO (electricity) and GDN (gas) data. This will also require you to review and agreeing disaggregation / aggregation approaches with stakeholders.
• Create and maintain various spatial datasets to support the RESP process.
• Create and maintain mappings from gas offtakes and supply points / Grid Supply Points and electricity transmission system Direct Connects to Local Authority regions and Regional Energy Strategic Planner (RESP) areas.

• Support the development of geospatial visualisations to support disaggregation / aggregation of data across RESP regions.
• Undertake ad hoc projects and initiatives relevant to data management, data handling, data cleansing, high-volume analytics, and insight generation as requested.
• Identifying areas of improvement and sharing best practice both within the team and externally.

About you

The RESP team need a wide range of knowledge and experience that are unlikely to be found in a single individual. The range of knowledge and experience we are looking for is: 

• Experience and knowledge in UK energy industry.
• Experience of working with large datasets including knowledge of data management standards, data cleansing techniques and maintenance of modelling outputs.
• Knowledge of the UK data landscape (i.e., OS products, data.gov, ONS etc…)
• Experience using GIS software to visualise and analyse data and provide cartographic outputs.
• An understanding of relevant spatial reference systems and their interactions.
• Experience using Python for spatial data manipulation and analysis, including data ingestion from diverse sources.
• Experience using SQL in a spatial database, including DDL and an understanding of indexing techniques.

• Experience of leading complex projects.
• Ability to work at pace and independently, proactively driving forward work that matters and adds value.
• Strong communication skills – ability to translate often complex information into compelling and meaningful insight to influence internal and external stakeholders.

About What You'll Get

A competitive salary between £52,000 - £63,000 per annum – dependent on experience and capability. As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on company performance, 26 days annual leave as standard and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.

As we work towards creating a cleaner, greener, and more affordable future for all, we also work towards creating a place for our teammates to belong, with professional and personal growth and positive well-being.

• Full support and career-development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise, and maximise your potential along your career journey.
• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table.
• Generous Total Rewards Plan – comprising of health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits.

More information

This role closes on 27th November 2024 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

We work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office. 

We're committed to building a workforce that represents the communities we serve, and a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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