Data Scientist

Vattenfall is seeking a Data Scientist to join their Data & Analytics team. As a Data Scientist, you will develop data science and AI solutions that contribute to Vattenfall's Business to Consumer ambitions, supporting both sustainable customer solutions and business value.

Your position As a Data Scientist, you develop data science and AI solutions that contribute to Vattenfall's Business to Consumer ambitions, supporting both sustainable customer solutions and business value. The Data & Analytics team develops data-driven solutions for marketing & sales, customer journeys, service and digitization, proposition development and sustainability advice to our customers.

Solving complex business challenges using data and machine learning is at the core of your work. You contribute throughout the journey, from exploring the business problem and possible approaches to developing, testing and implementing models on our Analytics Platform. Depending on the challenge, you work with machine learning and, where appropriate, Generative AI. Together with colleagues, you evaluate whether solutions deliver the intended quality and business value before putting them into practice.

You also consider aspects such as reliability, privacy and human oversight. Throughout the data science product life cycle, you collaborate closely with business stakeholders, Analytics Engineers and Data & ML Engineers. You explain your approach and outcomes clearly and use feedback to continuously improve your solutions.

As a Data Scientist, you will:

• Develop data science solutions from idea to implementation, using machine learning and, where appropriate, Generative AI to solve business challenges and create measurable value.
• Build and evaluate reliable AI and machine-learning solutions, testing their quality and robustness and taking privacy, bias and human oversight into account.
• Write production-quality, reusable and testable code, applying practices such as Git, code reviews, automated testing and CI/CD.
• Work closely with Data & ML Engineers to make solutions reproducible and support their deployment, versioning and monitoring.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and colleagues across disciplines, translating complex approaches and results into clear insights and continuously improving solutions based on feedback.

Qualifications:

• Academic degree with a strong quantitative component, such as Mathematics, Physics, Econometrics or a comparable field.
• Professional work experience as a Data Scientist or in a closely comparable Data Science role and have applied machine-learning methods to real-world problems.
• Communication skills in written and spoken English; Dutch is a plus.
• Comfortable working in an agile environment.

Technical experience includes:

• Writing production-quality Python;
• Applying machine-learning techniques, probability and statistics to real-world problems.
• Working with large and complex datasets, including an understanding of distributed computing.
• Practical experience with Generative AI, such as LLM APIs, prompting and structured outputs, and an understanding of how to evaluate controlled AI workflows.
• Working with DevOps practices (CICD, code reviews, git, etc.)

Our offer The salary for this position ranges from €4,862 to €6,077 gross per month, excluding holiday allowance, based on 38 hours per week. In addition to your salary, we offer:

• 8% holiday allowance, a 4.5% end-of-year payment and profit sharing of up to 3.5% of your annual salary based on the results of Vattenfall Netherlands (RDR).
• An NS Business Card for commuting or a travel allowance of €0.23 per kilometer, up to 50 kilometers one way, plus a home-working allowance of €3.05.
• 20 statutory vacation days and 5 additional vacation days as part of My Budget My Choice.
• 2 additional non-statutory days as compensation for overtime from scale 9, as part of My Budget My Choice.
• 3.5 vitality days and 13 ADV days when working a 40-hour week on a 38-hour contract.
• My Budget My Choice, allowing you to buy or sell additional vacation days, purchase a bicycle or have the budget paid out monthly.
• An ABP pension, with Vattenfall contributing 70% and you contributing 30%.
• A collective health-insurance discount with Zilveren Kruis Achmea.
• 4 hours of leave to perform volunteer work through the Vattenfall Foundation.
• An education budget for your personal development.