Senior Data Scientist

Join our Wind Models software development team as a Senior Data Scientist to advance the DNV WindFarmer product. We are looking for a domain expert who can bridge the gap between complex wind energy modelling and scalable software development. Enjoy the chance to work on a wide range of problems alongside other motivated and enthusiastic colleagues. Be part of the team leading the way in the adoption of best practices in the renewable energy sector. If you are passionate about empowering customers to make informed decisions through powerful tools and data to help accelerate the global Energy Transition, we would love to hear from you.

Primary Tasks:

• Works as part of a cross-functional product team to deliver improvements to products focused on wind energy modelling.
• Supports customers to enable their product usage and identify product opportunities.
• Develops and validates model accuracy to ensure high-quality product offerings.
• Implements both physics-based and data-driven models programmatically, leveraging scientific computing to build robust and scalable solutions.
• Supports the development of more junior and less experienced team members.
• Communicates results and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Publishes and presents technical content via white papers, blog posts, and/or at conferences.
• Participates in the planning of the product and data science teams’ goals.

Responsibilities:

• Attractive rewards. We offer a comprehensive benefits package and global profit share scheme.
• Work/life balance. We offer flexible working hours and workplace, with a focus on work/life balance for our employees.
• Supportive and caring culture. Our international culture embodies diverse colleagues who value teamwork and inclusion across business areas and borders. We offer opportunities for our employees to connect through social and professional networks.
• Career and development. DNV offers extensive possibilities to grow and develop your competencies and career ambitions. We have a strong company culture with emphasis on growth mindset, knowledge sharing, and professional and personal development.

By joining DNV you become part of a world-leading company whose purpose is to safeguard life, property, and the environment. Our values “we care, we share, we dare” characterize how we work and behave towards each other and our customers. DNV is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to gender, religion, race, national or ethnic origin, cultural background, social group, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age or political opinion. Diversity is fundamental to our culture and we invite you to be part of this diversity.

Qualifications:

• Key Behaviours:
• Fascinated by wind energy modelling problems, curious about finding solutions and positive in exploiting opportunities for product improvements.
• Strong analytical skills applied to product development issues.
• Communicates clearly, translating findings into actionable recommendations.
• Understands customer needs and applies problem-solving skills to best address them.
• Invested in achieving outcomes despite obstacles or setbacks.
• Stays informed on latest data and technology offerings.
• Contributes to team meetings, planning sessions, and continuous improvement.
• Creates and maintains documentation of their projects.
• Eager to learn and deeply develop their expertise.
• Collaborates effectively with team members and external stakeholders.
• Follows team’s coding standards to implement product improvements.

• Skills/Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree minimum.
• Experience in the wind energy domain, including areas such as wind farm project development, wind resource assessment, wake modelling, CFD, and layout design.
• Background in scientific model R&D, as well as model deployment and validation, is highly valued.
• Experience in scientific computing, with strong and confident programming skills. Collaborative experience in developing software is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in a technical role directly supporting customers.
• Good familiarity with software development tools and Agile best practices.
• Experience working with strongly typed languages (C#, .NET), object-oriented programming, compute parallelization, cloud-compute, Kubernetes/microservices, GitOps also highly valued.

Security and compliance with statutory requirements in the countries in which we operate is essential for DNV. Background checks will be conducted on all final candidates as part of the offer process, in accordance with applicable country-specific laws and practices.