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Centrica are going through a fascinating period of change at the moment. We’re evolving to become a truly purpose-led organisation, helping millions of customers to live more sustainably, simply and affordably. We truly believe that we have a huge role to play in helping the nation to cut carbon emissions and prepare for a net zero future, and it’s a role we are immensely proud of.

If you wish to be at the heart of advising, designing and deploying innovative solutions to some of the key challenges facing the business today, then this is the role for you!

Group Business Services (GBS) is looking to hire an experienced Data Scientist to join our Data Solutions Team, adding to and evolving our existing data science capabilities.

Within GBS we provide a shared service solution to many areas within the business including HR, Metering, Procurement and Supply Chain.

As part of this role, the individual will be responsible for identifying insights from various data sources, as well as communicating these findings and related solutions to business managers, service managers, and product teams.

The Day to Day

• Design, develop and program methods, processes, and systems to consolidate and analyse unstructured, diverse data sources to generate actionable insights and solutions for service, process and product enhancement
• Interact with product and service teams to identify questions and issues for data analysis and experiments
• Develop and code software programs, algorithms and automated processes to cleanse, integrate and evaluate large datasets from multiple disparate sources
• Identify meaningful insights from large data and metadata sources; interprets and communicates insights and findings from analysis and experiments to product, service, and business managers

The aim of the role is to apply data science to help the company deliver transformation and meaningful solutions.

Key accountabilities:

• Identify opportunities to deploy data science to business challenges
• Gather and extracting key requirements, investigate solutions, and generate feasibility reports with accurate estimates of timelines for delivery
• Implement solutions within defined timelines
• Working in collaboration with wider support services and teams across the business to deploy solutions
• Partner with key internal and external stakeholders to understand problem statements and collaborate on suitable end point solutions
• Applying data science methodologies (modelling, feature engineering, data extraction and time series etc)
• Bringing conceptual ideas and solutions to fruition
• Presenting solutions effectively to decision makers to enable deployment

About you

• Extensive experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets is essential
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests and proper usage, etc.) and experience with applications
• The ability to interrogate code/project documentation material effectively
• The ability to understand programming errors and identify solutions
• The ability to create meaningful code and project documentation (Docstring, UML Diagrams, Entity Relationship Diagrams)
• Prior experience with Azure Cloud Services (AzureML, DataBricks, DataFactory, LogicApps) preferred
• Experience with HiveQL, Apache Spark, and ODBC or equivalent

• Strong problem solving skills with an emphasis on solution development
• Strong stakeholder management and engagement
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams
• Excellent presentation skills and ability to make complex information accessible to the relevant audience
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques is essential
• Project management from concept to delivery, exploiting existing and developing robust methodologies
• The ability to work both independently and within a pair-programming paradigm (preferable)

Centrica operates a Flex First working arrangement which enables remote working from home, with the opportunity to collaborate from office locations. In this role you will be assigned to your local office and will work flexibly between there and your home.

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.