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Data Scientist
Location
New Zealand
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Data Scientist
Contact Energy Ltd
• Owning the end-to-end delivery of data science solutions, from problem framing through to production and ongoing improvement • Building advanced models, generative AI tools, and insight-driven products that go beyond what standard tools can achieve • Partnering closely with stakeholders to test ideas, demonstrate value early, and iterate based on real-world feedback • Working within agile squads and across domains, learning the business deeply and applying your expertise where it matters most • Contributing to a growing data science capability, sharing knowledge, lifting standards, and helping shape how we work
Job Requirements
- Proven experience in data science (typically 3–5 years), with strong Python & SQL capability
- Experience with MLOps, AIOps, or data engineering practices
- Experience building and delivering data or AI solutions into production environments
- Strong analytical, statistical and modelling skills, with the ability to work across structured and unstructured data
- Confidence communicating complex ideas in a clear, practical way
- Experience working in agile or fast-paced, evolving environments
- Nice to have: Exposure to platforms like Databricks, AWS or Spark
- Nice to have: Experience working with complex data pipelines or large-scale environments
- Nice to have: Understanding of the New Zealand electricity industry
Benefits
- free health insurance cover
- boosted KiwiSaver
- access to Contact Shares
- a ‘Good to be Home’ annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing
- a trail-blazing parental leave policy
- twice yearly payments towards our products if you’re a Contact customer
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