General Purpose of Job  

The Grid Data Analyst position is responsible for providing information, assistance, and technical resources to cooperative system end users. This position helps the cooperative turn governed enterprise and electric grid data into trusted insights, reports, semantic models, operational metrics, automations, and decision-support products. This role supports utility operations by analyzing data from systems such as Outage Management systems (OMS), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Customer Information Systems (CIS), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Meter Data Management Systems (MDMS). This role works across business and technology teams to understand business processes, define analytical requirements, validate data products, and deliver reports and dashboards that are accurate, usable, secure, and aligned with enterprise data governance standards.

Minimum Required Qualifications and Competencies 

The following includes the minimum job requirements and essential duties for this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Some job requirements may exclude individuals that cannot be reasonably accommodated or who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health and safety of themselves or other employees.

Education

• Minimum: Four (4) year bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in data analytics, information systems, business, finance, accounting, computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or a related field.
• Preferred: Electric utility operations, Power system or distribution systems, Grid modernization, outage and reliability analytics experience. Coursework, certifications, or formal training in Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, SQL, Python, Spark, Power Query, data modeling, data governance, business analysis, process automation and documentation
• Job-related experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Experience

• Minimum: Three (3) years of progressively responsible experience in data analysis, business intelligence, reporting, operations analytics, financial analytics, utility analytics, process analytics, or related analytical work.
• Preferred: Experience working with modern cloud analytics platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, Databricks, Snowflake, Qlik Talend Cloud or comparable lakehouse/warehouse platforms.
• Preferred: Experience with Power BI semantic models, report development, paginated reports, Power Query, DAX, SQL, Python, Spark, documentation, data validation, source-to-target mapping, business metric definition, and cross-functional requirements gathering.
• Preferred: Experience with Power Platform tools such as Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio, especially where analytics outputs trigger, workflows, approvals, notifications, or guided business process.
• Preferred: Utility, cooperative, grid operations, outage, reliability, AMI, billing, or asset analytics
• Preferred: Experience with OMS/GIS/CIS/MDMS/AMI/SCADA/ADMS data.
• Preferred: Experience with feeder, circuit, substation, transformer, meter, service point, outage, and reliability datasets
• Preferred: Experience with utility KPIs such as SAIDI, SAIFI, CAIDI, outage duration, restoration performance, load, billing, and meter-read quality.

Other Requirements 

• Ability to operate a variety of office equipment, including a personal computer, printers, copy machines and telephones.
• Ability to work irregular hours for assignment completion and flexibility to change scheduling and report to work on short notice during emergency situations.
• Normal work hours will be eight (8) hours Monday through Friday, between 7:00 am to 5:00 pm. Business travel between offices and travel may be required for training and development.
• Successful completion of pre-employment background check, physical and drug screen.

About SECO Energy

SECO Energy is a not-for-profit electric cooperative serving over 230,000 homes and businesses across seven counties in Central Florida, making SECO the third-largest electric co-op in Florida and the seventh largest in the nation. One of the most important distinctions between other types of utilities and SECO is that we are member owned. Our members have a voice in the co-op’s decision-making process. They elect a nine-member Board of Trustees, who meet monthly to monitor the financial status of the Cooperative and make policy decisions in the best interest of the membership. SECO’s wholesale power provider is Seminole Electric Cooperative, Inc., one of the largest generation and transmission cooperatives in the nation, serving 1.9 million consumers in Florida. Seminole is owned by nine electric distribution cooperatives, and SECO Energy is one of those nine member-owners.

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