Data Science Graduate Scheme

Transport for London

Oct 26, 2023

Applications are closed

Job
Full-time
Starts on Sep 08
Entry Level
Data
£28.5K - £30.5K
London

Requirements

Already hold or be on track to achieve minimum of 2:1 in a highly numerate degree or a degree with a significant numerate and/or computational component; and
Examples of using big data, applying data science techniques, or programming experience e.g. R, Python, SQL, Java, C/C++ and Scala

Responsibilities

The graduate scheme will consist of 4 placements of roughly 6 months each with the option to choose your business areas of interest in your second year. Within each placement you will be introduced to new projects, datasets, and tools and you will be expected to deliver impactful work whilst simultaneously learning the skills you will need.
Data Science is embedded across the organisation, and so you can expect to work in several areas such as:
Customer analytics — Understanding how customers move around our network using data generated by tap-in-tap-out customer data, phones connecting to the Underground’s WiFi network, train weight sensors and surveys. You could be asked to improve our capability for real-time journey planning, optimise station retail, crowd management, or forecast commuter behaviour.
Operational support — Improving the reliability and efficiency of our infrastructure using smart condition monitoring, usage statistics, probabilistic models of failure impact, to optimise maintenance and investment programmes.
Environment and safety — TfL is committed to delivering safe and sustainable public transport and roads, and quality data analysis is crucial for designing safer junctions, reducing our energy use, and mitigating against future climate.
Strategic modelling — Decisions around line closures, major investment, and bus route alterations have a huge impact on our customers and data modelling techniques are vital to inform business cases and guide multi-billion-pound programmes.

Transport for London

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Mission & Purpose

Every day, we help millions of people to make journeys across London: By Tube, bus, tram, car, bike – and more. People don’t associate us with journeys by river, on foot or via the air, but we help with that, too. Getting people to where they need to go has been our business for over 100 years, and it shows. We’re leaders in our field, and no other city’s transport system is quite as recognisable: Red buses, black taxis, Tube trains and roundels have become icons in their own right. Our main job is to keep the city moving, working and growing but to do that, we have to listen. Constant improvements across the network are fuelled by feedback and comments from customers, as well as work within communities, representative groups, businesses and other London transport stakeholders. But our progress also depends on technology and data. With the future at our fingertips, we’ve already used it to revolutionise travel payments (think Oyster and contactless payment cards), and improved travel information. Tech and data is essential, not just to our future, but to others’: third parties use our data to power apps and services vital to customer journeys. So what’s next? As well as continuing to deliver Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan’s strategy and commitments on transport, our programme of capital investments is still one of the largest. We launched the Elizabeth line, we’re modernising services and stations and making travel safer for all.