Data Science Senior Specialist

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Date: Jun 23, 2025

Location: Irwindale, CA, US, 91702

Company: Southern California Edison

Join the Clean Energy Revolution

Become a Data Science Senior Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and build a better tomorrow. In this job, you’ll be responsible for working closely with internal clients, Subject Matter Experts, information architects, data engineers, process leads, project/program managers, and other teams to turn data into critical information and knowledge that can be used to make data informed business decisions.

 

You will work in the Business Intelligence Center within Customer Service, developing predictive analytics solutions. You'll support internal clients by solving complex problems and enhancing business and customer experiences. Your tasks include analyzing large data sets, building advanced analytical models, and generating actionable insights for decision-making. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, leveraging advanced statistical methods, machine learning techniques, and AI technology to solve real-world problems.

 

You will be accountable for partnering with Organization Unit (OU) clients to understand business problems, identify opportunities for improvement, and incorporate analytics solutions into business processes, to ensure analytics solutions deliver positive business value and are directly associated with OU goals. As a Data Science Senior Specialist, your work will help power our planet, reduce carbon emissions and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

  • Engages diverse stakeholders including data scientists, business clients, data engineers, SMEs and team members to define solutions to complex business problems requiring advanced analytics and modeling
  • Develops predictive and prescriptive data models using machine learning, statistical modeling and other advanced techniques to uncover insights that improve data-driven decision making across the organization
  • Identifies high-value use cases across business functions and domains to apply artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science to solve previously intractable business problems
  • Translates specific business challenges into well-defined objectives, requirements and success criteria for developing appropriate AI/ML models and solutions
  • Designs, develops and thoroughly evaluates innovative AI/ML models leveraging techniques like neural networks, deep learning and reinforcement learning to create predictive capabilities
  • Applies cutting-edge machine learning algorithms and data mining techniques to extract key insights and make accurate predictions from large, varied and complex datasets
  • Continuously monitors and enhances AI/ML models for improved performance; tracks key metrics to validate models against desired outcomes
  • Develops AI/ML solutions following established processes and model governance practices for ethics, explainability, reproducibility and ongoing maintenance
  • Researches and evaluates new and emerging AI/ML tools, techniques and technologies; makes recommendations on their potential business application and impact
  • Develops peer relationships and participates in industry groups and events to stay current on data science
  • A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in a quantitative discipline such as Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, or Business Analytics.
  • Three or more years of experience in data analytics related work. *PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, business analytics = 2 years of experience credit.

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience coding in Proficiency in Python, or Scala, SQL, SAS etc
  • Experience using the following database systems: MySQL, PostgreSQL, or MSSQL. Big Data Analytics: Hadoop environment, Hive, Pig or Spark.
  • Broad understanding of the electric utility industry and its regulatory environment.
  • Three or more years of experience using machine Learning methods such as deep learning, Bayesian methods, time series analysis, boosting, and bagging.
  • Two or more years of experience formulating high-level business goals as data science problems and identifying appropriate machine learning or data mining algorithms to solve various electric utility problems.
  • Capable of learning from state-of-the-art technical articles and reports. Has the ability to tailor state-of-the-art algorithms to solve the problem at hand, Has the ability to create insightful interpretations of the results.
  • Ability to effectively communicate technical content to non-technical audience at all levels, including individual contributor, frontline manager, middle management, and executives.
  • Two or more years of experience working with GCP, Azure, Snowflake, and PowerBI.

 

 

Additional Information 

  • This position’s work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days.  Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to work and reside in the state of California.  Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs.
  • Visit our Candidate Resource page to get meaningful information related to benefits, perks, resources, testing information, hiring process, and more!

 

About Southern California Edison

The people at SCE don't just keep the lights on. Our mission is so much bigger. We’re fueling the kind of innovation that’s changing an entire industry, and quite possibly the planet. Join us and create a future with cleaner energy, while providing our customers with the safety and reliability they demand. At SCE, you’ll have a chance to grow personally and professionally, making a real impact in Southern California and around the world.

 

Southern California Edison is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodations at (833) 343-0727.


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