Lead Hydrometeorologist

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Hydrometeorologist to join our organisation and help us minimise the impact of floods across the globe.

You’ll be joining a highly skilled team of flood modellers, software engineers and forecasting specialists.

We have an employee led remuneration team to ensure we listen to our employees’ wants and needs in order to find great benefits that are right for them, so you can rest assured that your professional and personal life will be taken care of with us

**The role**

The role will focus on sourcing, evaluating and utilising weather data globally in our flood forecasting system. The role will also work in a team developing best practice in flood risk communication based on our forecast products. There will be opportunities to work on various parts of our technology stack, working with flood modellers, software engineers and devops team.

**Responsibilities**
- Develop and maintain a good understanding of the latest developments in hydrometeorology, best practices and the development of new technologies
- Develop innovative approaches for utilising types of ensemble weather datasets to support flood forecasting approaches
- Research and test different deterministic and ensemble weather data to optimise our process for simulating live flood events
- Test the accuracy and performance of different weather APIs
- Leading on developing automated approach for validating weather data performance using Python and GIS tools
- Working in a team using observed flood data and our flood forecasts to test and calibrate the performance of the flood forecasting system
- Working in a team to monitor and report on performance against agreed customer satisfaction targets
- Contribute to Previsico’s flood forecasting product development
- Support other software development and operational activities
- Write and support innovation grants
- Ensure proper documentation

**About You**

You should have expertise in hydrology, meteorology and flood forecasting. You’ll need a degree in meteorology, a physical science or mathematics. Alternatively, you can have the equivalent technical experience.
- Postgraduate degree
- At least 3 years’ experience in analysing large weather datasets
- Proven experience in using ensemble and deterministic data to predict flood occurrence
- At least 3 years’ programming experience with Python
- Experience with common geospatial processing Python libraries
- Excellent GIS skills and a proven record in delivering data products
- Experience working in an agile commercial environment

***Equality and diversity**
- Previsico is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

***Pay and working arrangements**
- Competitive salary and company option
- The position is based either in our Loughborough or London office although we will consider flexible working arrangements. The applicant will need to have the right to work in the UK.

**Start date**:Immediately available

**To apply**:Please send a CV and Cover Letter to

**Closing date**: 29th February 2023