Data Scientist

Post Date

Apr 30, 2025

Location

Oakland,
California

ZIP/Postal Code

94612
US
Aug 12, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Data Warehousing

Req #

SFR-779567

Pay Rate

$64 - $80 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

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

We are a company committed to creating inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, religion, sex, age, marital status, national origin, sexual orientation, citizenship status, disability, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to Human Resources Request Form. The EEOC "Know Your Rights" Poster is available here.

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Required Skills & Experience

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

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Utility experience

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.