Data Scientist - Flex Optimization

As a Data Scientist in the Flex Optimization team, you’ll work on data driven solutions that maximize the value of Eneco’s steerable asset portfolio – including gas-fired power plants, renewable assets, batteries, industrial e-boilers, and behind the meter assets amongst others – by optimizing their flexibility across short-term power and ancillary markets.

• Your work will impact Eneco’s trade result and contributes to a smarter, cleaner energy system.
• You will build optimization strategies, bidding algorithms and machine learning models that operate in fast-moving, real-time energy markets.
• You will work side by side with other data scientist and traders to see where data science can add the most value.
• You will be working with large and growing datasets, so a continuous effort to improve forecasting, modelling, and decision support tooling is essential to stay ahead. Apart from developing these models you will also play a pivotal role to productionize those in a robust and reliable manner.

We aim to have a fast feedback loop of deploying, learning and adjusting, meaning that there is a strong focus on ownership and scalable automation of processes. Deploying your model makes real world impact – often the same day!

• Developing and maintaining advanced analytical models for asset optimization, forecasting, and bidding strategies. Using machine learning and (non)linear optimization methodologies.
• Designing and implementing new flexibility value propositions, from grid-scale batteries to behind the meter solutions, that enhance customer value and system flexibility.
• Driving automation and scalability, identifying where manual processes can be streamlined and operationalized.
• Collaborating closely with teams across Trading, Forecasting, IT, and Operations to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions.

You will work within the Flex Optimization team for the Trade Community – Eneco’s international trading division – right next to Rotterdam-Alexander station. A complex, dynamic environment where moving markets, ever-changing positions, new technologies, and the law of inhibiting head start create a challenging field of tension which requires a lot of initiative and insight. We interact quickly with each other in an informal, transparent and collegial atmosphere. In a rapidly changing energy landscape, you and your team will shape the energy transition. A tough job, with challenging but achievable targets.