About You

You derive satisfaction from developing data science pipelines, providing deeper insights and data advancements in decision making to your customers. Model selection, feature tuning, and explainability make up your foundation.  You are as comfortable collaborating directly with your customers as you are developing any technical part of a project’s lifecycle from inception to production support.  You recognize that delivering value to customers and employees is as crucial as technical accuracy and mitigating cognitive bias.  You are an advocate for delivering efficient data engineering pipelines as well as effectively visualizing and telling a story with data.  You thrive in an Agile Scrum environment where delivering value in AI, machine learning and data science operations in accordance with business priorities is paramount. Your inquisitive, open-minded, and your critical thinking nature drives you to solve problems and draw meaningful conclusions. You have a talent for simplifying complex ideas and concepts and effectively communicating them to internal clients. 

Job Definition

Provides deep knowledge discovery through data inference and exploration. Uses mathematic and algorithmic techniques to solve analytically complex business problems and enables intelligent strategy development, leveraging large sets of raw information to identify otherwise hidden insights. Works with business stakeholders to identify data science use cases and expected outcomes. Models and frames meaningful business scenarios which materially impact critical business processes and/or decisions. Operationalizes data science concepts into day-to-day operations to drive insights and continual improvement.

Experience/Education

Minimum Education and Experience

• PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Operations Research, Physics, or related field, AND
• Two (2) years of directly related experience applying advanced quantitative skills to complex datasets;

OR

• MSc in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Business or Operations Research, or related field, AND
• Four (4) years of directly related experience applying advanced quantitative skills to complex datasets;

OR

• Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Business or Operations Research, or related field, AND
• Six (6) years of directly related experience applying advanced quantitative skills to complex datasets.

You can find the full job description for this position, including accountabilities, required skills and abilities, and physical and mental demands and working conditions, on the following pages: Data Scientist I.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive compensation program, Snohomish County PUD #1 offers a comprehensive benefits package. Employees and eligible dependents may enroll in medical, dental, vison hardware, basic life insurance, long-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, voluntary term life, and retirement benefits (including PERS pension, 401(k), and a 457 plan). The Snohomish County PUD also provides an employee assistance program, tuition reimbursement, short-term disability, paid time off benefits starting at 20 days a year, plus 5 days of extended sick leave and 11 paid holidays. For more information on our benefits package please visit www.snopud.com/benefitoverview

Snohomish County PUD #1 is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Women, Disabled and Veterans.

Our Values

We hold ourselves and every member of Team PUD to high standards.

Every day we SAFEGUARD what matters, putting employee and community safety first.

We have INTEGRITY. We are a TEAM.
We SERVE with pride, RISE to challenges.
We choose to INCLUDE all, SEEK growth, and be BOLD.