UMBC Co-Op- Computer Science/Data Analytics

Job Description

Description

This position is only open to students currently enrolled at UMBC applying for a Co-op Position.

At Exelon, we've got a place for you!

Join the nation's leading competitive energy provider, with one of the largest electricity generation portfolios and retail customer bases in the country.  You will be part of a family of companies that strives for the highest standards of power generation, competitive energy sales, and energy delivery.  Our team of outstanding professionals is focused on performance, thought leadership, innovation, and the power of ideas that come from a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Exelon will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and enhance a successful career. We are also dedicated to motivating the success of our employees through competitive base salary, incentives, and health and retirement benefits.

Join Exelon and share your passion at a forward-thinking Fortune 100 company. Establish yourself in a place where you can truly shine and create a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow.  Energize your career at Exelon!

Position Description:

Support the BGE’s 2 Data Teams (Grid Analytics and Customer Analytics) with data extraction from various databases to perform modelling by Data Scientist and/or Quantitative Engineers. Will also play an instrumental role in basic data analytics, building dashboards or visual cues, etc.

Please review the job expectations for each unit below: 

Data Analyst Job Duties:

• Participate heavily in the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) process for many different data sources
• Find insights and relationships in data from differing divisions in the company
• Combine datasets from many sources in order to deliver modeling ready data frames
• Work closely with data scientist to define data requests and data frame structure
• Prepare data for predictive and prescriptive modeling for data scientist
• Handle ad-hoc data requests efficiently and smoothly in order to facilitate model training and validation

Data Engineer Job Duties:

• Participate heavily in the deployment of models created by data scientist
• Develop dashboards, web interfaces, and other visualizations for business unit use cases
• Develop data pipelines to optimize data access and feed into dashboard or other user interfaces
• Aid in the development of model deployment architecture (e.g. automatic feed of new data, data warehouse, and so on)
• Develop API’s and tools for ETL purposes
• Work closely with data scientist to develop the user interface design and implementation

Qualifications

This position is only open to students currently enrolled at UMBC applying for a Co-op Position.

We are seeking students who meet the following criteria:

•    Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s program in Data Analytics and Computer Science 
•    Minimum GPA: Major 2.8
•    A track record of outstanding academic performance
•    Eagerness to contribute in a team-oriented environment
•    Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
•    Excellent leadership, communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills 

• Python – basic to intermediate level
• SQL – basic to intermediate level
• R
• Ability to understand relational databases and trace back their origin
• Experience working with multiple file types
• Some knowledge with a Linux operating system (e.g. ability to navigate through file systems)
• Power BI – high basic to intermediate
• Tableau – high basic to intermediate

• Ability to query large datasets via SQL, Python, or R

• Ability to navigate databases located in Hadoop, Hive, Hue, Dremio, and Hue

• Experience working with big data and navigating relational databases

• Computer science background with experience developing dashboards and web interfaces (some HTML or Java is nice)

• Experience with API development

• Experience working with big data and navigating relational databases