Junior Data Scientist - Salzburg, Österreich - ESB

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IT - Data & Analytics-ESB is a purpose led company striving to create a brighter future for the customers and communities we serve, leading the transition to reliable, affordable, low-carbon energy.

Today, we operate one of the most progressive electricity systems in the world, with activities spanning electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain, and an international energy consulting business.

With almost 8,000 employees we invested €1bn in infrastructure last year, contributed over €2bn to the economies we operate in and distributed over €2m across a range of community initiatives.

This requires us to bring the best of our capabilities together to deliver innovative and value-driven solutions that enable our customers to live low-carbon lives.

ESB strives to foster an effective and inclusive culture where people engage, challenge and feel connected to our purpose, colleagues, customers and community.

Position:
Junior
Data Scientist

Technology plays a leading role in enabling and delivering ESB's strategy of achieving Net Zero emissions by 2040, but it's our people who will make this Brighter Future a reality.

With over 800 people working across our IT Delivery and CIO functions, together we design, build and support a broad range of technologies and services to deliver on our mission to bring sustainable and competitive energy solutions to all customers.

We achieve this by harnessing all our resources, investing in our people and working collaboratively together.

We are now looking for an energetic and enthusiastic IT Professional to join our Data Science Team.


Position Description
At ESB, data sits in the centre of our business, providing insights to support better business decisions. We are looking for a Junior Data Scienctist to join our growing data science team.

Working within ESB's Data Science team, you will be part of a highly motivated and skilled team of data professionals working to achieve maximum value for our businesses and customers across all of our investments in systems and technologies.

The Data Science Team are responsible for delivering business insight through interpretation of large data sets from our financial, operational, network and customer systems.

You will work closely with data engineers, data analysts and product owners to solve business challenges, prioritising, scoping and managing a broad range of data science projects.

If you are passionate about data science and want be part of ESBs Brighter future strategy, leading the transition to reliable, affordable, low carbon energy, we'd love you to hear from you.

The base location is F27, ESB Head Office, Dublin 2 (Smart Working suitable).


Key Responsibilities

Responsibilities will cover the items below:

• Manage the delivery of data science solutions from inception, through Proof of Concept and into production, using a range of tools and methods.
• Work alongside other data scientists and analysts to design and implement models and experiments from end to end, including data ingestion and preparation, feature engineering, analysis and modeling, model deployment, performance tracking and documentation.
• Collaborating with engineering teams to continuously strengthen our machine learning pipelines.
• Make business recommendations based on the data that drives better business decisions.
• Collaborate with relevant business areas to identify new projects and opportunities, understand their requirements, agree success criteria and ensure delivery.
• Prioritise, scope and manage data science projects and the corresponding key performance indicators (KPIs) for success
• Stays abreast of internal and external developments to identify & implement best practice methodologies to deliver against current and future ESB analytics requirements

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

• 24 years of relevant technical or business experience leveraging data intelligence to deliver products and services that drive customer value and new revenue.
• 12 years' experience using Data Science algorithms and methods to solve business problems using R or Python
• Excellent capability in SQL to extract data from databases
• Ability to communicate proposed solutions, requirements and design effectively to our customers and partners.
• Experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches.
• Strong passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data.

Desirable

• Some working experience in Modelling tools (SPSS, SAS).
• Having domain knowledge in Customer or Engineering fields.
• An external focus and ability to seek ways that ESB can continue to adapt and improve its Data Science practice.
• Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps

Above all, you must be innovative in your approach and be able to demonstrate your ability to acti