Data Scientist - Geospatial & Transport Analytics (6 Month FTC)

Job Description

Why this job matters

You’ll be working in BT Network Intelligence. Part of ETC and Strategy and Change, the team has big growth ambitions centred on building innovative, customer-centric propositions. Within Active Intelligence, we blend cutting edge data science with AI and Machine Learning to crunch location, movement, and web-behaviour data to provide actionable insights into how target demographic behaves. We bring clarity, focus and precision to our clients’ business, marketing, and policy decisions.

In this role you will:

• Apply geospatial analytics and transport modelling techniques at national scale
• Influence transport, urban planning, retail location and infrastructure decisions
• Help shape data-driven propositions that differentiate BT in a competitive analytics market

What you'll be doing

Geospatial & Transport Analytics

• Analyse large-scale geospatial and mobility datasets to model movement, accessibility, catchments, demand and network behaviour.
• Design and implement transport and location-based analytical models, supporting use cases such as:
• Origin–destination analysis
• Catchment and drive-time modelling
• Network flow and congestion analysis
• Accessibility and mobility insights
• Apply spatial SQL and cloud-native analytics to deliver scalable, repeatable solutions.

Data & Solution Delivery

• Build analytical pipelines and models on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including BigQuery.
• Integrate data from multiple sources (location, network, demographic, third-party datasets) into coherent analytical frameworks.
• Design solutions that are scalable, cost-effective and production-ready, aligned with business and client needs.
• Ensure outputs are robust, well-documented and follow best engineering and analytical practices.

Insight Communication & Visualisation

• Translate complex spatial analysis into clear, compelling insights for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Design and deliver interactive visualisations and dashboards using tools such as:
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Kepler.gl
• D3.js
• Qlik / Tableau / Kibana
• Present findings confidently to senior stakeholders, clients and partners.

Client & Commercial Engagement

• Act as a trusted analytical partner, working closely with internal teams and external clients.
• Support client pitches, proposals and bids by leading key analytical components.
• Contribute to the development of new data-driven transport and location intelligence propositions.

Skills & experience you'll need

Technical & Analytical

• Strong experience in geospatial analysis and data visualisation
• Advanced SQL
• Experience with transport, mobility or network modelling (formal or applied)
• Strong experience with cloud analytics platforms, preferably GCP / BigQuery
• Proficiency in Python and/or R
• Solid grounding in statistical, quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques

Professional Experience

• Experience in data analytics, geospatial analytics, transport analysis or related roles
• Proven ability to deliver insights from complex, high-volume datasets
• Experience working in fast-paced, delivery-focused environments
• Comfortable collaborating across technical, commercial and client-facing teams

Communication & Behaviours

• Excellent communicator, able to simplify complex spatial and analytical concepts
• Commercially aware, understanding how analytics drive business and policy outcomes
• Curious, proactive and outcome-focused
• Confident challenging assumptions and stakeholders constructively
• Able to work independently while contributing strongly to team objectives

What's in it for you, what are the benefits

• 10% on target bonus
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
• 2 weeks carer’s leave
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

Our leadership standards,

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.