Salary Range: $77,661- $130,111 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 and Data Scientist Staff 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.
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 protocols
- Gathers, extracts, manipulate, analyze, curate and model data using analytical and statistical tools
Specific to Data Scientist: - Work within a database 'sandbox' or 'workbench' environment to achieve the required reports
- Work with others to ensure the efficient performance of queries, algorithms and analytical functions to generate results
- Design reports or presentations to analyze and communicate related information
Specific to Data Scientist Staff: - Identifies new sources of data and new 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
- Design complex reports or presentations to monitor and analyze assets, events, communications, energy usage, customer information, and other related use cases
- Works independently and receives minimal guidance
- Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience
Education and Experience - High School Diploma, GED, or equivalent is required for both roles.
Specific to Data Scientist: - Applicants with a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer Science are encouraged to apply.
- OR four years of data analytics experience can be accepted in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
Specific to Data Scientist Staff: - Applicants with a Master's degree preferred 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 four years data analytics experience.
- OR eight years data analytics experience can be accepted in lieu of the above.
- Certifications in Data Science preferred such as DASCA, Data Science Council of America, or similar is a plus
- Knowledge in Power System Operation & Maintenance or Power System Modeling & Analysis
Skills - Strong communication skills.
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel.
Specific to Data Scientist: - Ability to learn advanced tools such as Spark, Cassandra, Hadoop or similar.
- Some experience with database and analytical tools such as Structured Query Languages (SQL), Oracle, Python or SPSS equivalent technologies and reporting tools such as Cognos and .NET
Specific to Data Scientist Staff: - Proficient with Structured Query Languages (SQL), Python, .Net and has exposure to advanced tools such as Spark, Cassandra, Hadoop or similar
Measure of Success - Demonstrates technical aptitude and willingness to learn.
- Demonstrates effective communication with internal and external work groups.
- Assigned projects are completed on time with a high level of accuracy and to customer's satisfaction.
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.
- Adoption Assistance.
- Mental health resources.
- Employee resource groups.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Competitive vacation, 10 company holidays and 2 personal holidays.
- Paid parental leave.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)