Business Data Scientist III/Sr

Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.

Do something that means something at Williams. This isn’t just a job - it’s an opportunity to explore and discover your passion with coworkers who become friends and mentors who push you to be your best self in and out of the office. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours!

The Business Data Scientist is responsible for creating models, generating insights, and developing advanced analytical models using machine learning and AI tools. This role will collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver technical solutions that drive business value independently. The ability to collaborate with others, develop solutions to sophisticated problems that anticipate the needs of customers, improve performance and efficiency are keys to success!

Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.

Responsibilities/Expectations:

• Develops, implements, and provides production support of business intelligence reporting and sophisticated analytical model development

• Develops architecture, data availability, and data model support

• Creates scalable, efficient, and automated processes for large scale data analyses for model development, validation, and implementation

• Organize user interfaces and data visualization tools to make data analyses more effective and accessible

• Trains users to transform data into action-oriented information and to use that information to make critical business decisions

• Explores available data and discover patterns, anomalies and trends

• Develops descriptive, predictive and/or prescriptive statistical models to address business problems

• Works with large data sets in a hybrid cloud, using machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) methods to help define requirements and set expectations

• Other duties as assigned

Education/Years of Experience:

Business Data Scientist III:
 

• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Construction Science, Business and three (3) years' of related experience supporting database development and data analytics; and/or natural gas industry experience

• Preferred: Master's Degree in Business Administration, Data Science, Information Technology and five (5) years' work experience in data science and/or business intelligence developer and/or natural gas fundamentals modeling

Business Data Scientist Sr:

• Required: Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Construction Science, Business and five (5) years' of related experience supporting database development and data analytics; and/or natural gas industry experience

• Preferred: Master's Degree in Business Administration, Data Science, Information Technology and ten (10) years' work experience in data science and/or business intelligence developer and/or natural gas fundamentals modeling

Other Requirements:

• Demonstrates outstanding organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications

• Basic knowledge of databases (SQL, Oracle, Cube) and multi-dimensional database structures

• Experience with business intelligence tools, reports and dashboards

• Preferred: Azure analytics platform proficiency (e.g., synapse, data bricks, data factory)

• Preferred: Experience in project management, engineering, project controls or construction process and sequence

• Preferred: Proficiency in writing DAX measures and queries

• Preferred: Familiarity with pipelines, compression, processing, and construction sequencing

• Preferred: Experience in engineering, project management, or project controls

• Preferred: General understanding of pipelines, compression, and processing

 

About Houston (Williams Tower Location):

Our Houston office is located in the Williams Tower, just steps from the Houston Galleria on Post Oak Boulevard, an area with more than 700 retailers, fine dining and hotels within two square miles. We offer free onsite-parking!

 

Houston is the fourth most populous city in the nation and greater Houston is the most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the United States. Houston is a dynamic mix of imagination, talent and first-class attractions that makes it a world-class city!

 

If you love being outside, Houston rates first in total park acreage among U.S. cities with more than one million residents and offers a 300-mile interconnected bikeway network spread over 500 square miles. Check out visithoustontexas to learn more!

Why Choose Williams?

We are committed to providing our employees with competitive compensation and benefits as part of your Total Rewards package to help protect your current and future physical, emotional, and financial health. We generally offer health benefit programs to our employees and their families that are competitive and flexible enough to meet your needs, and retirement benefits to allow you to invest now for financial security when you retire.  With rich learning and development programming and a high internal mobility rate, you are not just applying to a job with Williams; you are embarking on an exciting career!

• Competitive compensation
• Annual incentive program
• Hybrid work model - one work from home day each week for most office-based roles
• Flexible work schedule for most field-based roles
• 401(k) with company matching contribution and a fixed annual company contribution
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous company-paid life insurance and disability benefits
• A consumer-driven health plan option with the potential for a generous company contribution to a Health Savings Account
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid time off, including floating and company holidays
• Wellness Program with annual rewards
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Robust employee learning and development
• High internal mobility (we promote from within)
• Parental leave (we provide up to 6 weeks for each parent)
• Fertility coverage and adoption benefits
• Domestic partner benefits
• Educational reimbursement
• Non-profit donation matching contributions and time off to volunteer
• Employee resource groups
• Employee assistance programs
• Technology to make our work more productive and collaborative
• Regular employee engagement surveys and feedback processes

Williams has a long history of making a significant difference in the communities where we live and work, and we strive to cultivate an environment of employee inclusion, innovation and passion that values all voices and opinions. We help each other succeed and great things happen when people from a diverse set of backgrounds come together. Together, we make clean energy happen.

Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.

For more information, please visit https://www.williams.com/careers/total-rewards/.

Education Requirements:

Skill Requirements:

Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Business Intelligence (BI) Analysis, Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting, Data Analysis, Data Analysis Management, Database Management, Databricks Platform, Data Mining, Data Mining Analysis, Natural Gas, Natural Gas Pipelines, Project Management

Competency Requirements: