Salary Range: $109,131- $162,904
Relocation: No
About Us
Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC, headquartered in Dallas, is a regulated electricity transmission and distribution business that uses superior asset management skills to provide reliable electricity delivery to consumers. Oncor (together with its subsidiaries) operates the largest transmission and distribution system in Texas, delivering power to nearly 4 million homes and businesses and operating more than 143,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines in Texas.
Job Summary
The Data Scientist Senior and Consulting Data Scientist positions will leverage very large data sets to support Oncor Operations and Maintenance departments in their continuous effort to improve safety, increase reliability and provide better service to the 10 million customers in the Oncor service territory. To accomplish the desired results, the incumbent will utilize data sets such as operational data from the bulk power grid, outage event information, data from 3.8 million meters and asset information. The position may also use data external to Oncor such as weather, regulatory and demographic data.
Emphasis will be placed on the incumbent’s ability to utilize advanced tools designed for very large data sets such as SPARK, Hadoop, Mongo and Cassandra. The incumbent will also utilize their organizational skills along with their knowledge of relational and time series databases to evaluate various advanced modeling techniques, build/maintain appropriate queries, develop necessary algorithms, and create both ad-hoc and published reports. This will include analyzing, troubleshooting and enhancing poor performing queries, algorithms and reports.
The Data Scientist Senior position may be required to attend and present at internal meetings and events as well as presenting at various analytics conferences each year. This could include visiting with other utilities and vendors at their facility or one of Oncor’s Texas location.
The Consulting Data Scientist position will be responsible for assisting with the development of less experienced peers by mentoring and assisting them with more complicated tasks. Identifying, planning and managing projects utilizing a team of engineers and analysts will occasionally be required.
This position may be required to attend and present at internal meetings and events as well as presenting at various analytics conferences each year. This could include visiting with other utilities and vendors at their facility or one of Oncor’s Texas location.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
•Consistently research new methods of capturing data
•Develop infrastructure to clean data and implement data scrubbing automation protocol
•Gathers, extracts, manipulate, analyze, curate and model data using analytical and statistical tools
•Identifies new sources of data and methods to improve data collection, analysis, and reporting
•Maintains a database ‘sandbox’ or ‘workbench’ environment to achieve the required reports
•Ensures the efficient performance of queries, algorithms and analytical functions to generate reports
•Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
Specific To Data Scientist Sr:
•Design advanced reports or presentations to monitor and analyze assets, events, communications, energy usage, customer information, and other related use cases
•Directly interfaces with Data Management to ensure analytical and statistical tools are producing desired outcomes
•Able to manipulate large data sets that lead to the development of operational tools
•Works independently and receives minimal guidance
Specific To Consulting Data Scientist:
•Quickly and with a high degree of accuracy, design advanced queries and reports to monitor and analyze assets, events, communications, energy usage, and other related use cases
•Drive adoption of best practices in data science, query development, data governance and research
Education And Experience
•High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent is required for both roles.
•Certifications in Data Science such as DASCA, Data Science Council of America, or similar is a plus
•Knowledge in Power System Operation & Maintenance or Power System Modeling & Analysis is a plus
Specific To Data Scientist Sr:
•Applicants with a Master’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or Business Administration and two years data analytics experience are encouraged to apply.
•OR Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or Business Administration with six years data analytics experience
•OR ten years data analytics experience
Specific To Consulting Data Scientist:
•Applicants with a Master’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or Business Administration and five years business analytics experience are encouraged to apply.
•OR Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science or Business Administration with eight years business analytics experience
•OR twelve years data analytics experience
Measures of Success
•Demonstrates technical aptitude and willingness to learn.
•Demonstrates effective communication with internal and external work groups.
•Demonstrates skills in prioritization, multi-tasking and success in adapting to change.
•Demonstrates commitment to safety and promotes safety awareness.
•Demonstrates ability to effectively manage projects from conception to completion.
•Demonstrates the ability to train and teach peers.
Specific To Consulting Data Scientist:
•Provide leadership, direction, and support to the data scientist staff
•Provide input to new products, and other relevant processes
Benefits
At Oncor, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits, compensation and performance management programs designed specifically to attract, retain, motivate and reward our high-performing workforce. Our supportive and inclusive culture allows every team member the opportunity to thrive and make a difference. We invest in our employee’s success and well-being by offering such things as:
•Annual incentive program.
•Competitive health and welfare benefits (medical, dental, vision, life insurance).
•Ability to earn wellness incentives (up to $2,000 in 2025) and other wellbeing resources.
•401k with dollar-for-dollar company match up to 6%.
•Cash balance pension plan.
•Mental health resources.
•Employee resource groups.
•Competitive vacation, 10 company holidays and 2 personal holidays.
•Salary continuation for up to 6 months for approved employee illness or injury.
•Other perks such as commuter benefits, electric vehicle incentive program, appliance purchase plan.
Participation in benefit programs for employees in collective bargaining units is subject to the applicable collective bargaining agreement.