Senior Data Scientist

 Posted: February 11, 2025 

Closing Date: February 25, 2025 

Position Type: Permanent 

Union: Exempt MP.  

ENMAX Values – Safety, Integrity, Accountability, Service, Teamwork, Agility, Innovation 

The Senior Data Scientist serves as a lead technical expert for analytics requests, leveraging multi-disciplinary expertise in mathematics & statistics, finance, computer science, and machine learning to solve complex problems beyond the scope of a typical analytics specialist. This role, with direction from management, leads high-value initiatives and provides strategic insights across the organization. 

The analyses coming from this role will directly impact critical business areas, including creating models to optimize trading strategies and achieve aggressive performance targets and delivering insights used by senior leadership, trading, commercial valuations, risk, accounting, strategic planning, retail, and generation teams to enhance decision-making. 

Major responsibilities: 

• Lead and mentor forecast and market analytics specialists, providing guidance in analytical methodologies and best practices. 

• Deliver high-quality, ad-hoc analyses under tight deadlines to support strategic decision-making. 

• Demonstrate expertise in analyzing the Alberta electricity and natural gas markets, offering deep insights into market trends and dynamics. 

• Effectively communicate data-driven strategies to optimize profitability and minimize costs in areas such as trading, regulatory advocacy, market design, and project valuation. 

• Identify and quantify market and regulatory risks through comprehensive scenario and sensitivity analyses. 

• Design, develop, and deploy advanced predictive analytics, machine learning, and statistical models to generate critical market and operational insights for both trading teams and executive leadership. 

• Build scalable and efficient data pipelines using Python (Pandas, NumPy, PySpark), SQL, and cloud-based technologies (Azure, Fabric, Databricks) to support analytical workflows. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data engineers, analysts, and energy market specialists, to translate complex business challenges into technical solutions for wholesale market operations. 

• Provide leadership and accountability in developing and maintaining analytical models of the Alberta electricity and natural gas markets, ensuring accuracy and relevance. 

Education required: 

• Masters in STEM subject with strong math, business, and computer science focus required 

• CFA and/or MBA or PhD preferred 

Qualifications and experience: 

• Minimum 8 years related industry and technical experience 

• Programming fluency in Python or R, SQL, and VBA 

• Experience working with structured and unstructured big data, financial analysis, valuation, derivatives, corporate finance, portfolio optimization 

• Advanced statistical modelling skills used to help predict future market outcomes 

• Data science expertise – machine learning, artificial intelligence, supervised and unsupervised, feature selection, statistical inference 

• This role requires a broad scope of knowledge on the Alberta market, market evolution and energy related contracting 

• Experience with software development best practices, version control (Git), and CI/CD pipelines 

• Understanding of relationships/correlations between weather and supply/demand for natural gas and electricity 

• Comprehensive knowledge of GHG/REC/REM market fundamentals, market design and compliance rules  

• Expertise in Alberta electricity and natural gas markets including dispatch control, unit bidding behavior generation cost structure and issues affecting these markets including supply and demand drivers 

Competencies:  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to simplify and convey complex topics to non-technical leaders 

• Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills. 

• Be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with strong personality types. Be able to manage conflicting interests, and ever-changing priorities while staying focused 

• A self-starter who is adaptive and detail oriented as well as tenacious, with an interest in the energy market, a passion for data analytics, and a drive to innovate and grow 

Did we mention the ENMAX Advantage? 

We offer competitive compensation including a comprehensive flexible benefits program, non-downtown location that includes great building amenities such as free onsite fitness facility with programming geared to employee’s needs, onsite childcare centre (upon availability, offered from our ENMAX Place location 141 – 50 Ave. SE), free parking and much more. If you share our values and would like to make a difference with your career, join the team and see where the ENMAX possibilities can take you. 

Location:  This role will be part of our hybrid (home and office) work force with office workspace located at ENMAX Place (141 - 50th Avenue SE, Calgary, AB). You will work from home on Mondays and Fridays and in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. 

Note:   

• If we can provide an accommodation or adjustment to make the process more accessible for you, please let us know. ENMAX welcomes all qualified applicants to apply and is committed to a safe and respectful workplace. It is our aim to have a workplace which is inclusive and values safety, diversity, personal integrity, respect for individual differences, and encourages ownership and accountability for our actions.  

• Every ENMAX employee is responsible to take reasonable care to protect the health and safety of themselves, of all other workers, and of the public. Each employee must become familiar with safety procedures and rules applicable to their job and are required to follow them while working at ENMAX. 

• Must be legal to work in Canada and requires the successful completion of a criminal background check. Two pieces of valid Government issued ID will be required.  

In the spirit of reconciliation, we respectfully acknowledge that we live and work on the traditional lands of Indigenous Peoples. ENMAX headquarters is in Calgary, Alberta, the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprised of the Siksika, Kainai, Piikani, and Amskapi Piikuni Nations; the Tsuut’ina Nation; and the îyârhe Nakoda Nations of Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Goodstoney, and home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, as well as many diverse Indigenous people who have made the city their home. We are committed to strengthening relationships with Indigenous Nations and peoples in all communities where we operate, through respect and collaboration. 

Please visit our careers page to learn more about other opportunities at ENMAX Corporation. 

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