Senior Manager, Data Science - AI & Data Science Center of Excellence

Requisition ID # 169174 

Job Category: Accounting / Finance 

Job Level: Senior Manager

Business Unit: Information Technology

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Location: Oakland

 

 

Department Overview

The Enterprise Data Science & Artificial Intelligence (EDS&AI) organization is both an AI “Delivery” team and a “Center of Excellence” team that supports other practitioners in an enterprise-wide Hub & Spoke analytics adoption model.

 

As a Delivery team, this Department uses industry leading data science and Generative AI (GenAI) to drive PG&E’s AI transformation enabling customer affordability, system reliability, and public safety. The Department works cross-functionally across the company to enable data driven decisions applying machine learning (ML), GenAI and agentic AI. Deployed to some of PG&E’s highest priority areas, the Department does not specialize in one traditional utility domain, such as asset management or program administration, but instead specializes in extracting useful insights from disparate data sets and facilitating actions informed by these insights.

 

As a Center of Excellence team, this Department listens to the needs of data science and AI practitioners across the company, along with emerging industry practices, and builds standards, processes, tools, knowledge and best practices that meet the current and future needs of the enterprise. This team works on a wide variety of difficult problems, offering great variety in the work, and constant opportunity to explore and learn.

 

Current and past engagements include:

• Building AI-augmented workflows leveraging LLM-based insights to remediate gas service record inaccuracies.
• Creating wildfire risk models that are used by regulators and the utility to prioritize asset management.
• Developing computer vision models that improve, accelerate, and automate asset inspections processes.
• Predicting electric distribution equipment failure before it occurs, allowing for proactive maintenance.
• Forming the analytical framework behind PG&E’s Transmission Public Safety Power Shutoff
• Identifying and investigating anomalous customer natural gas usage, to resolve dangerous customer side leaks.

Position Summary and Job Responsibilities Specific to the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Data Science to lead the AI & Data Science Center of Excellence for the company.

 

Leadership

• Grow the skills and careers of current team members while hiring to fill open positions

• Apply strong experience in data science and AI to mentor team members in their work

 

AI Governance

• Become certified in AI Governance
• Own strategic direction and guidance for responsible AI across the enterprise
• Ensure day-to-day AI governance execution
• Build toward process automation
• Evaluate and select vendor solutions as required
• Keeping abreast of existing AI and other emerging technologies regulations at the State and National level to pivot internal compliance

 

Consulting/Advisory

• Build a reputation of first-class consulting and advisory work in the COE
• Create a portfolio of offerings accessible by the enterprise
• Ensure efforts are tracked and strategically aligned with company objectives
• Maintain and improve best practice guidance documents
• Support data science, AI, and analytics Spokes across the company by disseminating and supporting the implementation of best practices for ML & AI development, in aspects such as code engineering and best practices in coding, modeling, product scalability, and the like

 

MLOps and LLMOps

• Lead cross functional efforts to implement responsible AI/ML systems across the enterprise
• Ensure execution is well-managed
• Evaluate and select vendor solutions as required

 

AI-Ready Workforce

• Own the Data Science Job Family at PG&