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Form of workInform tactical and strategic direction for Origin Energy and the new Origin Zero division
Permanent Full-Time | Hybrid | Sydney CBD based
Working for us
At Origin we have a strong purpose and values that challenge us to find the answers to the big energy questions. Every person that works with us helps us reach that goal. If you bring good energy to Origin, you’ll get it in return. A challenging career. An exciting industry. And the support to grow and explore your potential.
THE ROLE
This is a unique opportunity to join Origin Energy’s Advanced Analytics team. The Future Energy Analytics team plays a pivotal role in providing valuable insights into Future Energy solutions such as solar PV, electric vehicles, batteries, and carbon reduction. The team informs various stakeholders of emerging insights and opportunities, analyses developments across multiple business divisions and growth initiatives, informing executive decision making and long-term strategic direction across Origin. This function is critical to driving optimal commercial outcomes, including supporting the newly established Origin Zero business.
This role will revolutionise how Origin models, markets, and operates solar PV, electric vehicles, and other DER assets by building and delivering complex solutions that will accelerate the speed to market of diverse and innovative offerings to our customers.
Reporting to the Future Energy Analytics Lead, you’ll be responsible for and get the opportunity to:
- Be at the cutting edge, bringing Future Energy solutions to life: Support the modelling and software development activities that bring to market emerging and maturing solutions such as batteries, solar PV, electric vehicles, and carbon reduction
- Design, build, iterate and scale: Play a dual role by developing innovative physical and financial models for various Future Energy solutions and scaling them
- Implement a variety of technical solutions: Including production ready, large scale and ad-hoc data modelling, software development, API development and insight development. This ranges across a variety of techniques, including but not limited to complex asset modelling, timeseries forecasting, machine learning, computer vision, geospatial analysis, energy and financial optimisation, and combined solution modelling
- Work with an industry leading team: Collaborate with web developers, cloud platforms, and analytics practitioners to effectively deliver technical and software solutions. Influence multiple stakeholders and solve strategic business problems
- Add depth, make an impact, and deliver significant strategic value: Create, develop, and champion best practices and processes to support seamless, consistent, high-quality delivery.
The ideal candidate is an experienced Python developer with strong technical skills in modelling and software development. They can design, develop, iterate, scale, and maintain sophisticated and mathematically complex models written in Python with multiple data integration points, while collaborating with broader web and application development teams to deliver a cohesive software experience to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Your curiosity and desire to transform the energy industry and build real world solutions will be leveraged in this role.
You’re experienced in and have:
- Strong Python and SQL skills, developed through relevant tertiary study and/or 5+ years of experience in previous roles and practical application
- Experience building complex mathematical models in Python
- Experience delivering code and software that have a significant mathematical component (e.g., optimisation engines, decision support systems, machine learning models, physics engines, and simulation engines)
- Experience working with broader software engineering teams, particularly web development teams
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure and tools (AWS EC2, Aurora and Sagemaker)
- Machine learning and computer vision expertise (desirable)
- Exposure to FastAPI in a machine learning or statistical modelling context (desirable)
- Prior tech or deep tech startup experience (desirable)
- Experience within the energy industry (desirable)
- Strong academic or research qualifications in physics, mathematics, engineering or equivalent (desirable)
- Curiosity to learn about new and emerging energy solutions.
- Based in Sydney CBD, this role also offers work life balance including flexible work arrangements (WFH/Office based arrangements).
- Discounted Origin products benefits for employees, including Electrical, Gas and Internet offers!
- Free and confidential counselling for employees and family members.
- Cultural leave - Additional paid leave days for our Indigenous employees to balance and meet their cultural obligations.
- Leading parental support - 20 weeks paid leave for primary carers and access to a Working Parents platform through our partner, Grace Papers
- Paid volunteer leave, opportunities to give back through our Origin Foundation Initiatives
- A comprehensive Care and Assurance Plan
- Growth and development and training opportunities.
- Supportive leadership, with a great team, that encourages interesting, rewarding and engaging work!
Origin - Where good change happens
At Origin, we’re powered by people who believe in creating collective change. We’re creating more diverse and inclusive workplaces for everyone because the more perspectives we have, in a place where everyone can belong, the better we can tackle our challenges together. We are united, yet unique.
We are committed to fostering a diverse, gender equitable workforce, where all applications are evaluated on merit and potential. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people living with disabilities, culturally diverse people, any stage in life, people with intersex variations and people within LGBTQ+ communities, including trans, and gender diverse.
If you think you have transferable skills, an appetite to learn and would be a great fit, we’d love to hear from you.
A great team to join
It's an exciting time to join Origin. Together we’re powering a cleaner, smarter energy future for Australia and beyond, always looking for better ways to deliver for our customers – and for our people.
Origin’s Future Energy and Business Development team is shaping tomorrow’s future energy innovations. We’re investing in new energy solutions; partnering with global start-ups and trialing new technology and business models. We also play a critical role in supporting our operations through world class application and infrastructure. We’re driven to lead the transition into a low carbon, technology-enabled world which embraces a more decentralised and digital future.
That’s why we need passionate, curious and customer focused people, who are excited by the challenge of finding new ways of working, new ways of delivering and shaping a new energy future.
Origin. Good energy
At Origin, our focus is on getting energy right for our customers, communities, and planet. Because we know it’s up to us to shape the future of energy. Today, we serve more than 4.2 million customers, are one of the most significant energy producers in the country and listed in the ASX Top 50 companies.
Origin recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.
