EDF Data & Tech

🎄 With Christmas around the corner, teams across the business have been coming together to celebrate the festive season! Here's a glimpse of how some of our teams have been celebrating: WMS 📊 The whole of WMS came together and celebrated the upcoming festivities face to face, which was a great opportunity for colleagues across the country to connect. Commercial & Performance 👨🏫 The Commercial & Performance Team kick started their Christmas celebrations with catchups from all of the sub teams – Resi & Small Business, Metering, Operational Performance & Insights, and Commercial Product Strategy. The wider team brought everyone back together for an afternoon playing mini golf, and wrapped up their festive day with a team pizza night. EIT 👩💻 EIT celebrated with a festive gathering where colleagues could enjoy good food and celebrate their achievements over the past year. Net Zero Strategy & Policy ☀️ Net Zero Strategy & Policy held a day of activities and talks, including bringing in speakers from NESO, to talk about the structure and scope of the organisation, & EDF Trading, who gave an insight into the current landscape and future priorities. This was followed by a cooking class and rounded off with a festive dinner! This was also an opportunity for everyone in the team to meet Josh Buckland, the new head of NZS&P, who will be taking up his role officially in the New Year. Small Business 👥 The Small Business team visited the AWS offices for future planning sessions, before celebrating with a classic Christmas quiz and giveaways, adding a fun twist to the festivities! We wish everyone a happy holiday season and look forward to embracing exciting opportunities in the year ahead! 🎅🎄🤶 #Christmas #team #collaboration #achievement #holiday #TeamCelebrations #YearEndReflrections #EDFCommunity

We’re Reflecting on 2024 at EDF: A Year of Innovation and Achievement! 🤖 From Hackathons to Award Ceremonies, this year has been a testament to EDF's commitment to innovation in data and technology. Highlights from this year include: 1️⃣ We won 4 awards at the DataIQ Awards! 🏆 Including Transformation with Data & AI, Best Data & Analytics team, and the prestigious Grand Prix award! 2️⃣ Steve Bowerman showcased EDFs journey to build a DevOps practice within a large Enterprise at the AWS Summit 3️⃣ Greta Lowson, one of our data Scientists, showcased EDF’s Sunday Saver trial back in June at the Energy UK Lightning Bolt Talks 🌩️ It's amazing to see how far its come throughout the year! 4️⃣ Clementine (Cici) Whitcomb, not only winning the Yusuf Mumtaz New Talent/Data Apprentice (Brand) earlier this year, but also getting listed as a DataIQ Future Leader 2025! 🥇 5️⃣ Adrian Causby, a Senior Software Engineer at EDF, curated a hands-on serverless workshop which is now featured in the AWS Workshop Studio! We’ve had a huge number of events this year, Sustainability Hackathons, Dev Days, Tableau Training, Security Game Days & Women+ Events to name a few! It was great to see some of the brilliant ideas & collaboration across the teams. Here's some of our Top Blogs of 2025: 📚 Joey Imlay: “Setting up a React component library” https://ow.ly/U1GP50Ut0AM 💻 Steve Bowerman: " How EDF Built a DevOps Practice on AWS” https://ow.ly/OWBf50Ut0AN 🧑🤝🧑 Kate Bryan - " 7 Career Advice Tips from a Software Engineer at EDF https://ow.ly/swRT50Ut0AO We’re grateful for the passion and innovation of our teams and the EDF community. Here's to continuing our mission to transform the world through data and technology in 2025! 🚀

📣 Exciting news! Our 2025 Data and Tech Graduate Scheme is now officially open for applications! Applications are open until 13th January 2025, you can click here to go to the application page: https://ow.ly/UZmg50UsNhI On the same page you'll also find more information about the requirements for the scheme, the application process, and all of the other key information you'll need. Also, to give you more of a personal insight into how some of our past and present graduates have found the scheme, have a read of some of their thoughts below! During the course of the programme, you’ll learn industry leading technologies, platforms, and concepts. These are some of the things you could be working on: 🚀 Data Engineering & Data Science – Big Data, data lakes, Tableau, Python, data manipulation with Pandas, plus TensorFlow, Hadoop, and Spark. 🚀 Software Engineering – Full software delivery lifecycle; designing, building, testing, deploying and running cloud native applications using serverless technologies, using a range of languages such as JavaScript/Typescript and Python. 🚀 DevOps – Cloud technologies and concepts, AWS, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and build/test automation, operational alerting/monitoring and instrumentation. Come join us in Data and Tech at EDF, and right from the outset you'll make an impact contributing to helping Britain achieve Net Zero ☀️ #TechCareers #DataGraduateScheme #GraduateOpportunities #DataScienceJobs #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps #CloudComputing #DataEngineering

🤖 AI & Automation meet up for an Immersion and Game Day!🦄 Our AI and Automation teams came together in our lovely Brighton office for a two-day event filled with learning, collaboration, and a bit of friendly competition! The event was a mix of technical immersion, hands-on learning, and team-building activities. We also came together for some festive fun in the evening in Brighton! Day 1: Immersion into AWS Bedrock The first day was an Immersion Day focused on AWS Bedrock. Our teams had a deep dive into various Bedrock tools, such as Agents, Flows, and Knowledge Bases, with a blend of informative talks and hands-on labs. The goal was to expand our knowledge on how to leverage generative AI to drive automated, smarter, and more efficient solutions. Day 2: Game Day! On day two, it was time to put our new knowledge to the test in a friendly and competitive Game Day! Teams were formed to tackle challenging tasks using AWS Bedrock’s capabilities, as well as various other AWS services, testing our problem-solving and teamwork skills. It was a really fun and unique way to apply what we'd learnt the day before, and generate innovative ideas that we can take back to our teams! Thanks very much to Owen Eszeki and Peter Conway for organising the day, and to Edward Branch and Alberto Crescini at AWS for being such wonderful facilitators! #AIandAutomation #AWSBedrock #GenerativeAI #TeamBuilding #InnovationDay

🌟 Celebrating Women in Data’s 10th Birthday! 🌟 The Women+ in Data and Tech community gathered at our London office to mark a decade of Women in Data® with co-working, cake, and connection 🍰. A huge thank you to our Partnerships Lead Reyam Enad for transporting the delicious treats and to our president, Beverly Manz for coordinating this special day! 🔹 Building Community Through Connection The day was a fantastic opportunity to meet, share ideas, and bond in an inclusive space. From exchanging work tips to learning about each other's hobbies and interests, we strengthened our community in meaningful ways. 🔹 Gratitude for Our Allies At EDF, we are proud of our supportive community of allies who champion equity and diversity in data and tech. Their ongoing efforts continue to make a tangible difference in our field. 🎉 Looking Ahead As we celebrate this milestone, we’re inspired by the incredible work of Women in Data. Check out their LinkedIn page to explore the impactful initiatives they’re driving: https://ow.ly/vFAM50UnzSV A big thank you to all that attended, and here’s to many more years of empowering and uplifting women+ in data and tech! 💪 #WomenInData #WomenInTech #DataDiversity

🎙️ The next WUN podcast is now live 🎙️ Join Lillian Philip, WUN Advocate in this latest WUN Podcast as she chats to Nina Möger Bengtsson, Transformation Director at Kraken Technologies and the 2024 Rising Star Award winner at the Women in Utilities Awards. Nina shares insights from her inspiring career journey, her passion for climate action, building expertise in energy, and fostering trust and innovation in utilities. Discover her leadership philosophies, strategies for driving cultural transformation, and how she champions women in the industry.   Listen here https://lnkd.in/eFVyJmPD #Utilities #podcast #inspiringwomen #careerjourney #innovation 🎙️

Event Recap! 🌟 Build, Scale, and Go Serverless with AWS & EDF! On Wednesday, AWS and EDF collaborated to host an exciting event dedicated to teaching the community about serverless technology. Serverless is a game-changer—empowering innovation by streamlining scalability and reducing operational overhead. This event was all about exploring how, why, when, and even when not to use serverless solutions. Event Highlights: 💻 Workshop: Adrian Causby, a Senior Software Engineer at EDF, curated a hands-on workshop which is now featured in the AWS Workshop Studio! It guides participants through creating serverless resources and building a complete front-end serverless application, showcasing live electricity flows between countries. Inspired by EDF’s Net Imbalance Volume tool, the application demonstrates how serverless tech can better inform short-term trading decisions. 🎤 Keynote: Ed Branch delivered an inspiring talk on modernisation and the importance of adopting cutting-edge solutions. 🛠️ Panel Discussion: an engaging conversation featuring AWS solutions architects, serverless experts and Adrian, covering best practices, common challenges, and practical advice for leveraging serverless. A huge thank you to AWS for hosting this collaborative event! 🚀 Stay tuned for an in-depth blog post… #AWS #Serverless #TechCommunity #Innovation #EDF #Workshop

Women in Data®, proudly in partnership with EDF (UK) + EDF Data & Tech🤝 “At EDF, we believe that diversity drives innovation and success. Partnering with Women in Data® allows us to support and empower women in a field that is shaping the future of energy and sustainability. By collaborating, we aim to foster inclusivity, promote gender equality, and tap into the vast potential of diverse data talent. This partnership aligns with our commitment to building a more innovative, data-driven future while ensuring that women play a central role in transforming the energy industry for the better.” Read more about EDF (UK) and their spotlighted WiDs ➡️ https://lnkd.in/etaqV6va #WomenInData #WomenInTech #WomenInAI #Allies Reyam Enad

Congratulations Clementine (Cici) Whitcomb for making the prestigious DataIQ Future Leaders 2025 list! 🙌 One of our Data Engineers, Cici, has been instrumental in her work, leading the delivery of a crucial and innovative solution in energy trading insights that will help Britain achieve Net Zero. We're thrilled that she has been recognised as one of our Future Leaders in Data. Cici has also been exceptional at helping to build our data culture, taking a lead role in organising and running hackathons, game days, and community events. Not to mention, she also volunteers at Code Your Future in her spare time, which is a charity that offers training to refugees and other disadvantaged people in data to ensure a strong future for data talent. Congratulations Cici! We're really proud of the work you are achieving 🫶 Check out the Future Leaders list here: https://ow.ly/6hlP50Uj2pQ

It was great to see our team win the DataIQ awards for Best Data and Analytics Team and Clementine (Cici) Whitcomb win the The Yusuf Mumtaz New Talent/Data Apprentice (Brand) earlier this year! Building on this Martin Aylward & Clementine (Cici) Whitcomb were recently invited to share their insights on EDFs Data journey and our ways of working at DataIQ Here's our top 5 Learnings: ♻️ Leadership - Start with purpose & vision. Set bold goals. Don’t worry if you don’t know how to get there 👨💻 Ways of Working - Collaborate, internally and with partners. Be stubborn on vision, flexible on execution 🧑🤝🧑 People – Build a diverse team. Encourage your people to be curious. Empowered teams with a self-learn & performance culture 🌍 Community – Use a mix of top-down active support and evangelists at all levels to build data communities across the business. Have fun! 🤖 Tech & Value - Invest in your cloud platform, but get to value quickly – use MVPs to unlock value. Adopt, Don’t Adapt and Progress Over Perfection Amazing work Cici & Martin! Thanks DataIQ for having us