Southern Company · 6 hours ago
Data Engineer
Greater Birmingham, Alabama Area
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
3+ years expSouthern Company is seeking a Data Engineer/Analyst to join their Operations & Commercial Technology Solutions organization. This role involves performing advanced analytics to enhance business profitability and operational efficiency while collaborating with various departments to support their data needs.
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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
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
Qualification
Required
A bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field is required
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
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
Preferred
A master's degree in engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field is preferred
Experience with Databricks, Power BI, Tableau, Plotly/Dash is a plus
Experience working with operational, industrial, IoT, or time‑series data is a plus
Strong interest in AI and aptitude to learn how to develop AI solutions for internal business partners
Knowledge of the electric utility industry is a plus
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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