Southern Company · 1 day ago
Data Scientist
Atlanta, GA, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
4+ years expGeorgia Power is the largest electric subsidiary of Southern Company, committed to delivering clean, safe, reliable, and affordable energy. The Data Scientist role focuses on performing advanced analytics to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency, utilizing machine learning and data visualization techniques to provide actionable insights.
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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
Fulfil high volume of ad-hoc analytics requests
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 (quantitative) and unstructured (text, voice recordings) data
Develop and deploy machine learning models
Create dashboards that automatically pull data from various data sources
Summarize key insights from your analytics projects and provide conclusions and recommendations
Produce analytics to enhance customer experience, improve energy affordability, and support sustainable growth
Quantify effect of various programs and initiatives on customer energy usage, call volume, payment behaviors
Provide insights on how our customers interact with our company across various channels in effort to improve customer service performance, optimize channels and programs
Enable personalization and communications based on customer data
Provide analytics to increase enrollment in energy efficiency, renewables, electric transportation, and other programs
Develop analytics to help grow unregulated net income
Provide analytics to optimize operations that deliver regulated and unregulated solutions to customers
Establish external and internal relationships to share best practices in data science, stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies
Continuously learn new data sources, new platforms, and new methods
Demonstrate curiosity and creativity in the rapidly evolving world of data and AI
Qualification
Required
A bachelor's degree in Data Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field is required
4+ years of hands-on experience with data and analytics; with progressively increased level of responsibility
Experience querying data from various data sources
Proficient with one or more programming languages used for analytics, preferably Python and SQL
Working knowledge of predictive modeling techniques, such as linear regression, decision trees, clustering, neutral networks, etc. and experience using these methods to address real-world business challenges
Strong interest in AI and aptitude to learn how to develop AI solutions for Customer Experience organization
Written communication skills and experience summarizing key insights in concise emails, executive summaries, and presentations
Verbal communication skills and experience effectively presenting analytics insights in practical terms to non-technical business audience
Experience managing and prioritizing multiple projects simultaneously
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
Behaviors rooted in our corporate values: Safety First, Intentional Inclusion, Act with Integrity, Superior Performance
Preferred
A master's degree in Data Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field is preferred
Experience with Databricks is desired, but not required
Experience developing dashboards in Power BI or a comparable visualization platform
Benefits
Competitive base salary
Annual incentive awards for eligible employees
Health, welfare and retirement benefits designed to support physical, financial, and emotional/social well-being
Additional compensation, such as an incentive program
Company
Southern Company
Southern Company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, is the shared services division of Southern Company.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.16BKey Investors
GRIP Program
2025-10-03Post Ipo Equity· $1.75B
2025-05-20Post Ipo Debt· $1.45B
2024-10-21Grant· $160M
Leadership Team
Thomas Fanning
President and CEO
David Poroch
Chief Financial Officer
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