Senior Data Scientist

Company Description

Vattenfall is one of the largest energy companies in Europe. We make electricity and heat and supply energy to millions of customers. We do this in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands.

With around 21,000 employees, we are enabling a future in which we are less dependent on the use of fossil fuels for our energy. We are at the forefront of the transition to a sustainable energy system. To achieve this ambitious goal, we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have a strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful company mission.

Job Description

Do you want to contribute to the energy transition and a sustainable world? And does developing data driven Business solutions give you energy? Then join our Data & Analytics team as a Data Scientist!

Your position

As a Data Scientist you will develop data science solutions with a strong impact on Vattenfall Business to Consumer (BtC) ambitions regarding both purpose and profitability. This is also reflected in our Data Strategy mission “A sustainable step ahead through data”!

The Data & Analytics team is responsible for the development of data driven solutions for  marketing & sales, customer journeys, service and digitization, proposition development and sustainability advice to our customers.

Solving complex business challenges using data and machine learning will be the core of your work. From the first idea, thinking of possible solutions and methods. Through the actual model development using a diverse amount of data sources on our Vattenfall Analytics Platform. To implementing a data science solution so it can be used in either our channels or internal systems.

Throughout the data science workflow you remain in close collaboration with our internal stakeholders to make sure your solutions match their needs.

So as a data scientist you will…

• Develop data science solutions from idea to implementation
• Contribute to complex business challenges in one of the 3 business domains
• Develop yourself and your co Data Scientists through the Data Science Authority

Where will you work?

The Vattenfall BTC Data & Analytics department develops data driven solutions for our customers and customer processes. We do this by creating and implementing machine learning models, strategic analysis, reporting and a self-service data model.

The department is spread out in 3 business domain teams; where data experts and business experts collaborate closely to realize valuable data solutions. Each Data & Analytics domain team consists of an Analytics Translator, Analytics engineers and Data Scientists, and is supported by Data- & ML Engineers from IT.

We value joint development of ways of working and best practices. This is facilitated through our Data Science Community of Practice 

Location  

Amsterdam

Qualifications

Your profile

Being a solution-orientated team player with a critical, pro-active mindset is key for the role of a Data Scientist in our team.  As you collaborate closely with colleagues from other disciplines, you are able to explain in a simple way how your models work and how they contribute to solving a business problem. Also, you dare to challenge current solutions and come up with improvements. We would love to talk with you, if you recognize yourself in the following:

• You have an academic degree with a strong quantitative component (Mathematics, Physics, Econometrics, or similar);
• At least 5 years of professional experience in a data scientist role (or similar);
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills; in English;
• Working experience in an agile environment.

  Your technical skills include:

• Writing production worthy Python code, with knowledge of different programming paradigms;
• Extensive knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques and their application in the real world;
• A solid foundation in probability theory and statistics;
• Working with large and complex data sets, with an understanding of distributed compute and query optimization;
• Experience with DevOps practices (CICD, code reviews, git, etc.).

Additional Information

Our offer 
The height of your salary is based on your education and relevant work experience. The salary for this position ranges from €5700 to €7100 gross per month, excluding holiday allowance, based on 38 hours per week. In addition to your salary, we offer a comprehensive secondary benefits package, the most important components of which are:

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