Head of Forecasting

Get stuck in. This is a leadership role, but we’d expect you to spend most of your time coding at first:

• Research fundamental data feeds

• Identify and execute contracts with the best meteorology providers

• Build generation forecasts for specific renewable plants (solar, wind or hydro)

• Build system demand forecasts, how much demand, generation and interconnection will there be on the system at any given point in time

• Combine the volume forecasts to generate price forecasts at varying time points, critically day-ahead and real time. 

• Ensure detailed understanding of real time price formulae and seek close replication in our processes

• Quickly understand the requirements, identify optimal resource for a lean and efficient team, and lead recruitment of a high quality team

• Designing a modular forecasting engine that can quickly adapt to different provincial market rules, ancillary service requirements, and varying price signals

• Set and communicate the strategic direction for the software

• Utilise LLM models for efficient development. Potential opportunity to partner with Anthropic or similar for case study project

• Ensure (with necessary support) that we are acting in accordance with local data security standards

• Propose and implement the desired tech stack, likely hosted on AliCloud.

• Be a strong example of Octopus culture and work closely with Octopus and partner teams

Experience building and leading high performing data science and analytics  teams

Experience with sophisticated machine learning techniques

Full stack to be defined (and you’ll have the chance to influence) but proficiency with Python and SQL is vital

Experience managing complex data pipelines and visualisation suites

Excellent communication skills to relay complicated concepts in a way that everyone can understand

Openness to moving to an East Asian market

Prior experience in energy markets preferred

Speaking both English and Mandarin advantageous but not essential