Data Scientist

Hi,

We are hiring a Data Scientist for our client located at Oakland, CA

Requisition Title: Data Scientist
Location: Oakland, CA
Duration: 10 Months

Key Skills:
1. Works with large data sets, has SQL, python experience
2. Produce data visualization, Power BI or Tableau
3. Understands Data Science from a modeling perspective, understand how to do scenario analysis and different data modeling
4. Utility Experience (understand this may be unlikely)

Description
OPEN TO LOCAL AND NON-LOCAL WITH A STRONG PREFERENCE OF SELECTING SOMEONE FROM WITHIN CALIFORNIA STATE. The role is Remote with 1-2 quarterly meetings per year.

Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist in the Ops Support Data & Analytics who will provide strong execution and delivery of data science. Working as a part of the product team, this Data Scientist will translate business needs into advanced analytics and advanced data modeling. The successful candidate will be responsible for model selection and identification of appropriate training data sets; building, training, and evaluating models; and delivering results to the business on a regular cadence.

Position Responsibilities:
Leads development of high complexity models and training sets
Provides hands-on execution and implementation of data science models
Translates business analysis needs into well-defined data science problems, and selecting appropriate models and algorithms and communicates model evaluation and implications of results back to stakeholders
Recognizes and prioritizes the most important work related to data science models to achieve highest operational impact for analytics in the business
Balances tradeoffs among analytics value, model development methods and design and technologies used to implement data science models with a bias toward action
Performs analysis on complex data models requiring customized reports and data and presents recommendations. Bachelor's Degree in Econometrics, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Applied Sciences, Statistics or job-related discipline or equivalent experience
Job-related experience, 8 years, OR Master's Degree and job-related experience, 6 years, and job-related experience, 3 years. Experience in data modeling, 5yrs

Desired Education / Skills:
Experience with Python, R, Scala, SQL
Experience data science notebooks (Jupyter, Zeppelin or other)
Experience with AWS, Azure, cloud computing technologies
Energy industry experience
Experience designing efficient data science workflows and database architecture for data science purposes
Experience with forecasting, Bayesian networks, and graph analytics
Strong statistics experience

Regards,

Dominic Savio