About this role
Data Engineer/Analyst
Location: Birmingham, Alabama (Energy Center)
Onsite 4 days a week (Monday through Thursday Remote option on Fridays)
JOB SUMMARY:
The Data Engineer/Analyst role is located in Birmingham, Alabama. The position will be filled as a member of the Operations & Commercial Technology Solutions organization, within Southern Power Technology Solutions. The Data Engineer/Analyst role will perform advanced and descriptive analytics that lead to improved business profitability, increased operational efficiencies, and better customer experience. This role requires a combination of conceptual thinking, analytical expertise, business acumen, strategic mindset, and customer focus. This role is responsible for discovering business insights using statistics, machine learning, and visualization techniques. The successful candidate will need to acquire strong knowledge of our internal business. This role focuses on supporting various departments across Southern Power. Ability to collaborate with stakeholders across the company is essential to success in this role.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field is required
- A master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field is preferred
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with data analytics or programming; with progressively increased level of responsibility
- Experience querying data from various data sources
- Excellent analytics and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues.
- Proficient with one or more programming languages used for analytics, preferably Python and SQL
- Experience with Databricks, Power BI, Tableau, Plotly/Dash is a plus
- Experience working with operational, industrial, IoT, or timeseries data is a plus
- Strong interest in AI and aptitude to learn how to develop AI solutions for internal business partners
- Ability to effectively collaborate in highly cross-functional work environment, engage diverse stakeholders, ask questions to understand client needs, and partner with colleagues across different teams
- Written communication skills and experience summarizing key insights in concise emails, a few bullet points, and executive summaries
- Verbal communication skills and experience effectively presenting analytics outcomes and methodology in practical terms to business audiences
- Experience managing and prioritizing multiple projects simultaneously
- Behaviors rooted in our corporate values: Safety First, Intentional Inclusion, Act with Integrity, Superior Performance
- Knowledge of the electric utility industry is a plus
MAJOR JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Build relationships with internal clients to understand their goals, processes, and challenges
- Promptly respond to requests from internal clients, understand their business questions, and perform analytics to meet their business needs
- Proactively suggest advanced analytics solutions to clients
- Write programs to pull data from various data sources
- Identify, gather, and prepare data for your projects
- Analyze structured and unstructured data
- Fulfill high volumes of ad-hoc analytics requests
- Develop and deploy analytical models
- Demonstrated ability to monitor, diagnose, and optimize data pipelines and analytical solutions
- Develop dashboards that automatically pull data from various internal databases
- Summarize key insights from your analytics projects and provide conclusions and recommendations
- Produce analytics and models to enhance internal business processes, reduce operational costs, increase revenues, optimize decision making, and support capacity growth
- Provide insights and tools that quantify, track, and improve data quality
- Establish external and internal relationships to share best practices in data science, stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies
- Continuously learn new data, new platforms, and new methods. Demonstrate curiosity and creativity in the rapidly evolving world of data and AI.
Behavioral Attributes
- Opportunistic Drive - Committed to delivering technology solutions that help Southern Power achieve their business objectives
- Positive Can-Do Attitude – Must be willing to take full responsibility for duties and work effectively under the pressure of deadlines and shifting priorities.
- Self-Starter – Able to work in a professional environment with limited direct supervision.
- Results-Oriented – Acts with speed and decisiveness; takes initiative and does what it takes to meet commitments.
- Safety Focused – Accepts responsibility for the safety of self and co-workers.
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement – Stays abreast of new technologies and techniques in the market; Looks for opportunities improve through strategy and innovation.
About Southern Company
Southern Company (NYSE: SO) is a leading energy provider serving 9 million customers across the Southeast and beyond through its family of companies. Providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy with excellent service is our mission. The company has electric operating companies in three states, natural gas distribution companies in four states, a competitive generation company, a leading distributed energy solutions provider with national capabilities, a fiber optics network and telecommunications services. Through an industry-leading commitment to innovation, resilience and sustainability, we are taking action to meet customers' and communities' needs while advancing our goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Our uncompromising values ensure we put the needs of those we serve at the center of everything we do and are the key to our sustained success. We are transforming energy into economic, environmental and social progress for tomorrow. Our corporate culture has been recognized by a variety of organizations, earning the company awards and recognitions that reflect Our Values and dedication to service. To learn more, visit www.southerncompany.com.
Southern Company invests in the well-being of its employees and their families through a comprehensive total rewards strategy that includes competitive base salary, annual incentive awards for eligible employees and health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being. This position may also be eligible for additional compensation, such as an incentive program, with the amount of any bonus/awards subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable incentive plan(s). A summary of the benefits offered for this position can be found here https://seo.nlx.org/southernco/pdf/SOCO-Benefits.pdf. Additional and specific details about total compensation and benefits will also be provided during the hiring process.
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About Southern Company
Together with our subsidiaries, we deliver clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy to our 9 million customers. Our focus is doing so with service excellence.
That means we are leaders who take action to meet our customers’ and communities’ needs while advancing our commitment to net zero emissions by 2050. We create community value through energy, social, economic, and environmental progress.
We do this through electric operating companies in three states and natural gas distribution companies in four. Our family of companies draw on diverse energy sources to create the best mix for our service areas, including electricity, natural gas, solar power, carbon-free nuclear, and other sustainable sources.
We leverage our leading distributed energy infrastructure company and other innovative technology to better serve every customer. Our competitive, national generation company serves wholesale customers, and our family includes a fiber optics network, and telecommunications services.
What you'll do
- The Data Engineer/Analyst will build relationships with internal clients to understand their goals and perform analytics to meet their business needs. They will also develop and deploy analytical models and summarize key insights from analytics projects.
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