Data Scientist - Machine Learning
Mercator IT Solutions
2021-12-03 08:54:10
salary: 550.00 British Pound . GBP Daily
Barkingside, Greater London, United Kingdom
Job type: contract
Job industry: I.T. & Communications
Job Contact: Charlie Worwood
Job Duration: 6 month+
Job description
Role Title:
Data Scientist. A unique opportunity to be at the tip of the spear of a digital transformation in the global energy transition.
The Role:
The successful candidate will be responsible for the AI team and driving the AI technology roadmap relating to decentralized energy. You should enjoy working with data to uncover insights that inform and direct business, technical and strategic decisions.
The ideal candidate is an exceptional problem solver; precise and detail oriented.
Your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Develop new groundbreaking AI technology to solve product and AI production challenges
- Drive priorities for the team.
- Working alongside the Commercial team to conduct exploratory analysis for future clients and help drive product roadmap.
- Develop core AI technologies for the team
The Impact:
Our business is working at the intersection of markets and innovative technologies to bring about critically needed efficiency, security, & reliability to energy markets.
You will be applying your data science skills to directly to shape the future of energy and drive the energy transition to renewables, from one of the most significant businesses in the sector.
The Career Opportunity:
The team is small and elite, so you will need to thrive on freedom, trust and responsibility while being highly accountable. If it is of interest you may have the opportunity to grow into a leading position within the team where you be responsible for the development of projects across a variety of products and technologies and communication with stakeholders. You should also be motivated to be an exemplar for best in class delivery, showing how the latest innovative processes, technology and tools can bring value to an existing global enterprise structure.
The Team/The Business:
Our business is full of natural innovators with big ideas. Every office in our global network contains game changing potential to improve how we bring value to our customers, through combining existing and new content with new functionality.
Now we have a dedicated delivery capability to prototype, test and iterate solutions and services for our customers. We turn our ideas into tangible proof of concepts and scalable blueprints for growth.
We practice hands on innovation. Apps not white papers.
We aim to deliver:
- organisational intelligence & value
- products & solutions to be scaled
- measurable & meaningful impact for the global energy & commodities markets
Knowledge & Skills:
- Strong experience in time series forecasting
- Understanding of low-level AI framework like TensorFlow
- Experience in productionising AI models, and developing MLOPS pipeline in Azure and AWS
- Understanding of power market and energy price fundamentals, as a key factor influencing desired behaviour of power systems.
- Demonstrable strong programming experience in Python and SQL.
- A strong understanding of data structures and performance computing.
- Excellent personal organization and ability to prioritize and carry out multiple tasks
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Comfortable to work independently
- Must work effectively & collaboratively in a dynamic development environment
Preferred skillsets:
- Advanced statistics & statistical programming language like Python.
- Advanced proficiency in Numpy, Pandas, scikit-learn.