Data and Analytics Engineer FTC - PhD Level - Immediate Start

About the Role

You will work across our multidisciplinary consultancy team, with a primary focus on digital and data-driven analysis through automated processes. You’ll have the opportunity to contribute to impactful real-world work—helping clients understand, plan, and deliver pathways to decarbonisation.

This role requires someone who can hit the ground running, adapt quickly, and work flexibly across different challenge areas. You’ll collaborate with a talented, supportive team of experts who are passionate about tackling the climate crisis through evidence-based, innovative solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute analytical expertise to projects in digital strategy, and digital planning.
• Conduct robust modelling, data analysis, and research to support the digitisation of planning.
• Build data and analytical pipelines (in Python) to automate key modelling workflows.
• Develop robust, tested code that meets internal standards.
• Prepare clear and compelling reports, technical outputs, and presentations for clients.
• Collaborate with internal specialists across transport, energy, digital and systems modelling.
• Support delivery of consultancy projects to time, quality and budget.
• Respond flexibly to evolving project needs across the wider consultancy team.

About Us

City Science is an SME founded in 2015 with a core mission of delivering decarbonisation. We help organisations who are committed to decarbonisation achieve meaningful and quantifiable carbon reductions quickly and efficiently. We work collaboratively across our business to provide integrated solutions to our clients. Our range of clients is extensive, having worked for major national bodies such as DESNZ, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), and a range of forward-thinking local authorities such as Oxfordshire County Council. We work closely with our award-winning research, software and product development team who produce innovative and uniquely insightful digital tools, like our GIS software, Cadence, to successfully deliver our projects.