Senior Data Scientist — Energy (Oil & Gas)

About the role A senior individual contributor owning the data science work end to end: deciding what to measure, getting the data, building the models, defending the conclusions. You work directly with traders, deal economists, finance and treasury, and the founders — no account manager in between. We are hiring for a sector, not for one narrow problem. Assignments come from business stakeholders and they vary; what stays constant is the industry and the independence expected. The team can grow with one or two junior data scientists reporting to you. There is a data engineer and an established data lake, but not every source is organised that way — a meaningful part of the work still starts in raw tables and unprocessed exports. What the work looks like The system we are building exists so that anyone involved in a deal can reconstruct the P&L between any two points of the chain, at any moment, on an agreed and versioned allocation basis. That is where the role sits: P&L, cost and financial transactions. Operational data is an input to margin, not a subject of its own. This is operational deal P&L, reconciled to but not identical with the statutory accounts; the general ledger and month-close stay in the accounting system. Scope P&L reconstruction and margin attribution across the deal lifecycle — netback at entry, provisional P&L, final P&L after final pricing, actual costs, demurrage and claims — with a defensible account of every delta, and the abi