What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Scientist position at Synergy Business Consulting, Inc.?
Senior Data Scientist – Renewable & Load Forecasting (Contract, Onsite – Juno Beach, FL)
Synergy Business Consulting is hiring a Senior Data Scientist for a leading Florida energy client. The work is building and productionizing forecasting models for wind (primary), solar and load. It’s a contract through September 2027, fully onsite in Juno Beach.
What you’ll do
- Build and improve wind, solar and load forecasts, from feature engineering and backtesting through deployment and monitoring
- Benchmark weather/NWP providers on accuracy, latency, coverage and redundancy, then recommend a core provider set, blending and fallback logic
- Root-cause forecast misses (weather vs. model vs. data vs. operations: curtailment, outages, derates)
- Build pipelines for weather, SCADA and telemetry data, plus Streamlit/Plotly performance dashboards
What you bring
- Advanced Python (pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels, LightGBM/XGBoost) and strong SQL
- Production experience with time-series, ensemble and probabilistic/quantile forecasting
- Hands-on work with weather APIs, NWP forecasts and SCADA/telemetry
- AWS (S3, Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, SageMaker) or similar; Git and testing discipline
Nice to have: utility-scale wind forecasting, turbine power curves, ISO/RTO or trading exposure, intra-hour to multi-day horizons