Hybrid Head of Data

at Aurora Energy Research

• Job title: Head of Data
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, ETL, Python
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Oxford, United Kingdom

About the role

• Head of Data leading Aurora’s data strategy and operations for power market analytics software. Overseeing data acquisition, engineering, and governance across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own our data acquisition strategy: ensure we source, scrape, or license the right datasets to support all current and future software products
• Oversee our scraping provider(s), ensuring robustness, coverage, uptime, and proactive issue resolution
• Continuously evaluate and fill gaps across market data, asset data, weather data, geospatial data, grid/nodal layers, and third-party feeds
• Work with development team to build and maintain pipelines that clean, transform, validate, and enrich data to production quality standards
• Ensure all datasets are stored, versioned, catalogued, and documented — with clear SLAs for updates and maintenance
• Implement monitoring, observability, and automated quality checks to ensure data accuracy and timeliness
• Partner deeply with Product Managers to understand the data needs of each product: Historical market data, Asset performance and metadata, Geospatial map layers (grid representation, nodal forecasts, land constraints, etc.), Simulation outputs and time-series from Aurora modelling
• Ensure each product team has well-structured, well-documented, and performant access to the data they need
• Work with Engineering to design efficient APIs and data services for internal and client-facing consumption
• Develop high-quality data dashboards on EOS for internal and client use
• Partner with UX and Dev teams to build compelling, interactive data visualisations using our new charting library
• Provide guidance and templates that enable other teams to build dashboards and visualisations consistently and at speed
• Work with Research teams to establish company-wide standards for data quality, naming conventions, and metadata
• Maintain a comprehensive, searchable data catalog covering both internal and external datasets
• Ensure data lineage, documentation, and ownership are clear and consistently maintained across teams
• Champion best practices for data stewardship across engineering, product, and research
• Lead and grow an existing team of data analysts across Oxford and Gurugram
• Establish standards for data governance, documentation, and lifecycle management across Aurora
• Act as the internal thought leader for data quality, architecture, and visualisation

Requirements

• Strong experience in data engineering, data platform ownership, or leading data teams in a B2B software or analytics environment
• Proven ability to build production-grade data pipelines (Python, ETL, AWS, etc.)
• Deep familiarity with time-series data, geospatial data, and API-driven data delivery
• Demonstrated ability to define data standards, contribution contracts, and decision boundaries in environments with uneven expertise, local variation, and decentralised ownership
• Ability to translate analytical needs into robust data models and scalable data architectures
• Excellence in stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
• Strong prioritisation and systems mindset: able to simplify complex data landscapes, sequence foundational work overtime, and optimise for organisational leverage as well as feature delivery
• **Desirable attributes:**
• Experience with power markets, energy assets, or other complex technical domains
• Familiarity with modern data visualisation frameworks and dashboarding systems
• Exposure to UX-driven design principles for data communication
• Experience working with outsourced scraping providers or building scraping systems in-house

Benefits

• A pivotal leadership role shaping the data backbone of Aurora’s software products
• Opportunity to influence product strategy and client experience at scale
• High autonomy, high ownership, and the ability to build a function from the ground up
• A collaborative, mission-driven environment focused on transforming the global energy transition
• A fun, informal, collaborative, and international work culture
• A competitive salary package
• Access to regular coaching and mentoring sessions, and the opportunity to learn from experienced professionals
• Some of the benefits we include are:
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Parental Support
• Salary-Exchange Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Local Oxford Discounts
• Cycle-to-work Scheme
• Flu Jabs