Blue Lab is EDF's innovation accelerator embedded within the Customers Business Unit. It exists to make ideas and innovations come to life and to make energy better for the UK, our customers and our people. Our ambition is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, low carbon society through the development of new technologies and business models. Blue Lab works on growing and nurturing start-ups, colleagues, students and innovators who are passionate about their concepts. Blue Lab employees are encouraged to take responsibility for their work, collaborate with other teams, and think creatively in order to provide innovative solutions.
Blue Lab is creating a Data Acceleration Team (DAT) whose mission will be to create value from our data, to help us reach our ambition of being a fully data-driven company. The Data placement will join this team based in our Hove office in the South East.
During this placement you’ll work within an agile team of Engineers building highly resilient, scalable and performant data engineering and data science products in an automated and efficient manner. You’ll work alongside Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Big Data Application Developers, DevOps Engineers, and cross-functional IT teams. This opportunity will offer you valuable experience in statistical research, data engineering and analysis, design of new algorithms and the application of statistical programming tools and techniques to large datasets.