Data Scientist

Job Title: Data Scientist Location: Oakland, CA Duration: 10-month Contract Work Type: Remote Pay Range: $95 - $98/hr 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 the 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, selects 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, 5 years 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 Top Things: • Works with large data sets, has SQL, Python experience • Produce data visualization, Power BI, or Tableau • Understands Data Science from a modeling perspective, understands how to do scenario analysis,s and different data modeling • Utility Experience (understand this may be unlikely) Notes: • 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. • A client laptop will be provided for candidates within the client's service territory. Benefits: • • Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans • • 401k Retirement Fund About The Company: • Leading natural gas and electric energy company serving millions of customers across the United States. Offers reliable energy delivery and a positive work environment. Join our team and make a difference in your community. About GTT • GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American owned company in Alaska. As a Native American-owned, economically disadvantaged corporation, we highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our clients are Fortune 500 banking, insurance, financial services, and technology companies, along with some of the nation’s largest life sciences, biotech, utility, and retail companies across the US and Canada. We look forward to helping you land your next great career opportunity! 25-20784