Role: Senior Programmer and Data Modeller

Location: Athens, Greece or Madrid, Spain or UK Flexible - Hybrid

Role ID: 2025-3147

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, a member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

Key Responsibilities
• Develop and optimize mathematical programming models (linear, nonlinear, mixed-integer optimization, CGE models, simulation models).
• Design, manage, and maintain large-scale databases integrating economic, energy, and environmental data.
• Apply advanced programming techniques in GAMS, Python, R, Julia, and SQL for model development, automation, and data management.
• Apply data mining and machine learning techniques (clustering, classification, regression, anomaly detection) to extract insights.
• Build automated data pipelines for efficient data collection, cleaning, and transformation.
• Improve model operation, computational performance, and scalability.
• Collaborate with researchers and consultants to deliver quantitative evidence and technical solutions.
• Document methodologies and contribute to technical reports, publications, and presentations.
• Contribute to EU-funded research projects and international consultancy assignments.

Key Competencies and Experience
• MSc or PhD in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven expertise in mathematical programming and optimization methods (linear, nonlinear, mixed-integer optimization).
• Strong programming skills in, for example, GAMS, Python, R, Julia, or SQL.
• Proficiency in SQL and database management systems (design, query optimization, performance tuning).
• Demonstrated experience in data mining, machine learning, or mathematical modelling.
• Hands-on experience with database design, management, and query optimization.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

#LI-Hybrid   #LI-EB1