Senior Data Scientist

3 days ago

West Palm Beach, FL, United States Synergy Business Consulting Full-time

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