Sr Data Scientist

NextEra Energy • Juno Beach, FL

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About The Position

NextEra Energy Resources’ IT Forecasting team is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead the development and production deployment of advanced forecasting models for load, solar, and wind generation across NextEra Energy operations. The role supports decision-making for Energy Management, Power Marketing, and FPL System Operations.

The position covers the full model lifecycle, from conception and feature engineering through production deployment, optimization, and performance monitoring. It includes integrating weather data through APIs, developing production-ready forecasting solutions that connect with internal systems and AWS infrastructure, and implementing error handling, alerts, and recovery procedures. The successful candidate will turn complex datasets into actionable forecasts for real-time energy-sector operational decisions, while meeting stringent accuracy requirements and time-sensitive obligations.

The role also develops algorithms, modeling techniques, and optimization methods that support NextEra and FPL business needs. It applies machine learning, optimization, statistics, applied mathematics, software engineering, distributed computing, and data storage infrastructure. The employee prepares documented analyses and interpretations, works with big data platforms, and contributes software to product development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• At least 4 years of experience.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and data science libraries, including pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, and statsmodels.
• Proven experience developing and deploying production time-series forecasting models, including ARIMA, SARIMAX, or gradient boosting methods.
• Experience taking models from research or development through production deployment, including versioning, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Experience consuming and integrating weather APIs and external data sources into forecasting pipelines, with a strong data engineering background.
• Working knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, and SageMaker, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Proficiency with SQL databases and experience with large-scale data queries and optimization.
• Experience building interactive dashboards using Streamlit, Plotly, or similar frameworks.
• Knowledge of model evaluation metrics such as MAE, RMSE, and MAPE.
• Experience with automated data pipelines and version control such as Git.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, ownership of the model lifecycle, and ability to deliver cost-effective, high-quality solutions within operational deadlines and accuracy standards.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• Doctoral degree.
• Advanced feature engineering, uncertainty quantification, and probabilistic forecasting methods.
• Energy markets and renewable generation forecasting domain expertise.
• Agile project management experience, including Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end forecasting model development for load, solar, and wind generation, from conception through production deployment.
• Develop, optimize, deploy, version, monitor, and maintain production forecasting models.
• Perform advanced feature engineering, including use of weather variables and domain-specific signals.
• Integrate weather APIs, external data sources, and data warehouse systems into forecasting pipelines.
• Design scalable automated data pipelines for real-time and batch forecasting operations.
• Build automated model retraining and evaluation frameworks with monitoring dashboards.
• Implement robust error handling, alerting mechanisms, and recovery procedures for production systems.
• Develop interactive dashboards and present insights to stakeholders.
• Develop machine learning, optimization, and other modeling solutions.
• Prepare documented observations, analyses, interpretations, technical reports, summaries, protocols, and quantitative analyses.
• Work with big data and distributed computing platforms.
• Develop software and contribute to product development.
• Collaborate with trading, operations, and engineering teams; participate in Agile scrum ceremonies.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• NextEra Energy offers a range of benefits to employees and eligible family members; specific benefits are not listed.
• Relocation assistance is provided if applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior