• Job Description

  Req#: 27246

  Volume Forecasting Data Scientist

  
  Do you have a strong analytical mindset and a good understanding of the UK Energy Markets? If so, come and join EDF as a Volume Forecasting Data Scientist!

  
  The Opportunity

  
  EDF Wholesale Market Services (WMS) is a core business line within the EDF UK Customers Business that is at the centre of helping Britain achieve Net Zero. It provides industry leading wholesale market services to EDF’s supply and generation business units and to third party energy asset owners. The team operates in a broad and diverse range of market segments including residential & business supply, nuclear, renewable & thermal generation and storage & flexible energy.

  
  This role sits within the Volume Forecasting Systems team, and they are responsible for re-platforming and enhancing our Volume Forecasting systems to further enable our market leading performance.

  
  We are looking for a talented Data Scientist to join the team and help develop our forecasting models to minimise business cost and maximise forecast accuracy.

  
  Pay, benefits and culture

  
  Alongside a salary of circa £60,000 (depending on experience) and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.

  
  Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts and employee pricing.

  
  Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we’ll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively. The team travel to our London and Exeter offices for some meetings as required.

  
  David Nazareth , Volume Forecasting Senior Analyst, says “Our cutting-edge tech stack of cloud native tooling provides a robust foundation for innovation. As a key player, you'll take charge of consolidating and disseminating best practices for building, deploying, and maintaining Data Science models across the team. If you're fuelled by a passion for continual learning in a fast-paced environment and possess the drive to ensure we maintain a leading edge in volume forecasting, then this is the perfect place for you!”

  
  At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

  
  We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

  
  We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

  
  What you’ll be doing

  
  As the Data Scientist, you will be responsible for developing our Volume Forecasting models within our new system. Focusing on an AWS centric tech-stack, you will utilise data science tools such as, sagemaker, Jupyter notebooks and Python/R.

  
  You will work collaboratively with a variety of teams across the wider WMS business to ensure best practice is adopted to design, build, deploy, and manage our forecasting models utilising new infrastructure.

  
  With your experience in data science, you will support the team in making best use of the new machine learning, data science and model management capabilities whilst ensuring new learning and ways of working are embedded into the team.

  
  Who you are

  
  We are looking for somebody with exceptional numerical and mathematical abilities, along with a comprehensive understanding of the UK energy markets, to bring valuable skills to our team.

  
  You will demonstrate strong analytical skills and the ability to solve complex problems and provide insightful solutions. Proficiency in modelling is essential for this role and expertise in coding using R or Python is also beneficial.

  
  As the data scientist, you will be familiar with Machine Learning operations, database language such as SQL and you will have an extremely good understanding of the UK energy market, particularly of electricity volume.

  
  If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!

  
  Closing date for applications: 21st January 2024

  
  Join us and together we can help Britain achieve Net Zero.

• About the company

  EDF Energy is a British integrated energy company, wholly owned by the French state owned EDF, with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of natural gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom.

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