Data Scientist

Are you Data Scientist who is an excellent communicator and a collaborative team player? Then your next career move may well be your best.

The question is, are you ready to play your part in the journey to net-zero?

At Drax, we are working towards a zero-carbon, sustainable future and you can help make this future a reality.

Data Scientist (Remote)

Purpose:

• To further the knowledge base of Drax Group with exploratory and iterative data science programmes
• To solve extraordinarily complex business problems by providing solutions, using advanced data analysis techniques
• To explore and extract value from internal and external data sets in support of prioritised high-value opportunities for Drax
• To identify and refine further high value ideas and hypotheses for next iterations of learning, to continuously strengthen data science in Drax
  
  

Key Accountabilities:

• Explore and extract maximum value out of Drax data and its wider internal and external systems, including both existing and potential sources of Drax. This will span systems relating to customer and financial management, supply chain and production data.
• Contribute to knowledge base of Drax Data and Data Science, Hub-based Drax Target Architecture and other relevant knowledge bases
• Developing and implement appropriate data science models, and controls that are transferrable and usable by other data science team members, and are therefore well documented and shared
• Comply with up to date data security, privacy (GDPR) and information data governance rules
• Check all models and recommendations against common sense and ethics standards, in order to avoid inherent bias and discrimination, and flag warnings and caveats as needed
• Time-box exploration of topics to test and learn quickly and move on to next hypothesis if progress is slowed, keep to deadlines and flag challenges early
• Produce regular progress reports, explaining progress in clear, concise, and illustrated manner, ready for internal sharing and reporting
• Provide cleaned data to help create new or help amended processes, tools and data science services
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure their buy-in of changes that are being proposed and they understand how to use and monitor new tools, reports and processes.
• Engage with 3 rd parties in a manner that complies with all internal policies, collaborating and driving commercial success of all 3 rd party engagements
• Spend an agreed amount of time staying abreast of new data science trends, benchmarking reports, conferences and explore these for the benefit of Drax value generation
• Maintaining the relevant Data Science sections on SharePoint
  
  

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required:

• Educated to degree in a numerate discipline or equivalent
• Extensive experience in artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques
• Experience in usage of relevant software packages such as Amazon SageMaker, Tensorflow, Spark, Microsoft Azure and equivalent
• Working knowledge of data science languages such as SQL, PowerShell, R and/or Python
• Ability to use advance analytical techniques in a sensible pragmatic way and understand their limitations and future potential, keeping up to date with current developments
• Ability to develop accurate models from first principles and be able to sense-check outputs (common sense)
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong oral and written communication skills in MS Office
• Knowledge of processes from an operational department
  
  

What’s it like to work at Drax?

If you like a fast-paced, changing environment, come be part of a great team!

At Drax, we’re at our best when we help each other achieve the things that are important to each of us. We are open to discussing hybrid working so you can be where you need to be.

We’re passionate about our role in providing a supply of stable, renewable energy and if you want to play your part, then why not apply today?

Curious to learn more about us? We recommend you connect with us on LinkedIn for more insights.

How You Need to Act:

• We care about what matters – we help each other achieve the things that are important to each of us
• We’re a can-do kind of place – we’re empowered and encouraged to make informed decisions, take action and do the right thing
• We see things differently – we share inspiration and insight right across Drax, and search for new ideas and ways of working
• We listen carefully – we make sure that people feel genuinely heard, acknowledged and that what they say matters
• We do what we say we’ll do – we’re proactive, committed and reliable –and trust others to be the same