Data Analyst

About the company:

Avenue Code is the leading software consultancy focused on delivering end-to-end development solutions for digital transformation across every vertical. We’re privately held, profitable, and have been on a solid growth trajectory since day one. We care deeply about our clients, our partners, and our people. We prefer the word ‘partner’ over ‘vendor’, and our investment in professional relationships is a reflection of that philosophy. We pride ourselves on our technical acumen, our collaborative problem-solving ability, and the warm professionalism of our teams.

Avenue Code has been believing in and promoting plurality actions for over 10 years, understanding that recognizing differences and fostering a safe environment, employment opportunities, representation, and support are the best ways to promote an increasingly equitable culture.

About the opportunity:

We are seeking a Data Analyst with strong expertise in Python coding and advanced knowledge of regression and linear optimization techniques. This role involves working on data analytics and optimization projects, with a focus on energy markets, and contributing to solutions that improve process plant operations. You will collaborate closely with business and technical teams to ensure successful integration with existing systems and provide valuable insights to stakeholders. Strong communication skills and a proactive, self-driven attitude are key to thriving in this role.

This is a hybrid role in Lisbon, Portugal.

Responsibilities:

• Data Analysis and Preprocessing: Adapt process plant model structures based on specific plant data. Analyze, validate and clean past operation data, validate operation limits, and update affected regression calculations
• Model Validation and Testing: Run the models against past operations data, ensuring compliance with upper and lower limits, production ramping speeds, and other parameters. Test optimization models against historical data and the plant model and optimise it.
• Technical Integration: Coordinate the technical integration process with the business, project management and other involved parties. Ensure working integration to adjacent systems (e.g. Historian database, plant control system, etc.
• Report insights to stakeholders // Communication and Coordination: Engage in effective communication with business and ROC (Remote Operations Center) regarding process parameters, constraints, and test results. Support business value estimation by running scenarios against simulations and past data.
• Test Management and Continuous Optimization: Manage tests, ensuring execution and thorough analysis. Establish and maintain optimization models to run continuously. Monitor run performance and take proactive actions if runs deviate from expectations.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• Proven knowledge of coding in Python
• Advanced knowledge of regression & linear optimization (Python-based, relevant libraries: pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, or-tools)
• Working experience in data analytics with a proven project/solution track record
• Skills in data analysis & visualization (Python-based, relevant libraries: pandas, numpy, plotly)
• Experience as Operations Research analyst or similar: worked with optimization models (e.g. Integer and Linear Programming) in the past
• Projects related with energy markets and experience working in similar industries (gas/oil/energy)
• Fluent English (spoken and written)
• Willingness for business travel (on an occasional basis)
  
  

Nice to Have:

• Self-driver attitude: Execute tasks self-responsible. A can-do and get-stuff-done attitude is crucial
• Good communication skills, able to effectively discuss project requirements with different hierarchy levels and disciplines (engineering, business, etc.)
• Portuguese is a plus
  
  

Avenue Code reinforces its commitment to privacy and to all the principles guaranteed by the most accurate global data protection laws, such as GDPR, LGPD, CCPA and CPRA. The Candidate data shared with Avenue Code will be kept confidential and will not be transmitted to disinterested third parties, nor will it be used for purposes other than the application for open positions. As a Consultancy company, Avenue Code may share your information with its clients and other Companies from the CompassUol Group to which Avenue Code’s consultants are allocated to perform its services.