Lead Data Scientist

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Do you want to contribute to the energy transition and a sustainable world? Does developing data driven Business solutions give you energy? Then join our Data & Analytics team as the Lead Data Scientist!

About the Data & Analytics department

You will be a part of the Vattenfall BtC Data & Analytics department, which develops data driven solutions for our customers and customer processes. The department is spread out in three business domain teams; where data experts and business collaborate closely to realize valuable data science solutions. Each Data & Analytics domain team consists of an Analytics Translator, Analytics Engineers and Data Scientists, and is supported by Data- & ML Engineers from IT.

The data science solutions the Data & Analytics team creates have a strong impact on Vattenfall Business to Consumer (BtC) ambitions regarding both purpose and profitability. This is also reflected in our Data Strategy mission “A sustainable step ahead through data”!

The Data Science Lead acts as the lead to the Data Science Authority; a collaboration of the data scientists and machine learning engineers of the three different business domains. The goal of the Data Science Authority is to facilitate a joint development of ways of working and best practices.

Your role

As the  Lead Data Scientist  you will help bring the quality of our data science solutions to the next level. You will lead the Data Science authority, part of the Data & Analytics team, which is responsible for the development of data driven solutions for marketing & sales, customer journeys, service and digitization, proposition development and sustainability advice to our customers.

As the lead data scientist, you will be responsible for :

• Steering 6 data scientists and 3 machine learning engineers across various business domains, ensuring that they deliver high-quality data-driven solutions
• Overseeing and facilitating the professional development of team members
• Developing and implementing data science strategies that align with business objectives
• Translating the vision of the Data Science Authority into a roadmap of initiatives that will increase the team's data science maturity level and overseeing its implementation
• Encouraging knowledge sharing among the team members and promoting a collaborative work environment
• Being the primary point of contact for both the team and other stakeholders within the company for overarching topics
• Acting as the liaison for external parties
• Staying up to date with the latest trends and technologies in data science and machine learning and actively introducing them to the team

Location

Amsterdam

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Your profile

You are an individual with strong leadership and communication skills, as you will be the first point of contact for internal stakeholders. With your curiosity and willingness to take on challenges you are able to take on complex (technical) problems. Being as assertive as you are you challenge others to be the best they can be and strive for excellence.

Furthermore you meet the following qualifications :

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Our offer

The height of your salary is based on your education and relevant work experience. The salary for this position ranges from €5.300,- to €6.600,- excluding holiday payments and based on a fulltime workweek of 38 hours. In addition to your salary, we offer a comprehensive secondary benefits package, the most important components of which are :

At Vattenfall, there is a close team culture while also providing ample room for individual initiative.

At our company, hybrid working is the norm, meaning you will work at the office at least 50% of the time. Most of your colleagues prefer to work the remaining 50% of their time from home, but the choice is entirely yours. At Vattenfall, we highly value a good work-life balance and continuously seek ways in which we can contribute to this as an employer.

More Information

We welcome your application in English, no later than, 7th of July 2025. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website as we cannot guarantee that we will be able to process applications that are not made via our website.

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Alisa Roo via email : alisa.roo@vattenfall.com.

At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation.

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. The screening will be performed by a third party, Validata.

We look forward to receiving your application!