Senior Analyst - Climate Scientist

Qualifications

Graduate degree in atmospheric science, meteorology, climate/earth systems science,
hydrology, civil/environmental engineering, astrophysics or similar fields; PhD/postdoc highly
preferred

Experience working with climate models (i.e. CMIP5 GCMs, RCMs, etc.), ensemble analysis,
uncertainty quantification

Preferred modeling experience: flood/hydrological modeling, bias correction/downscaling
methods, climate impact assessments

Knowledge in climate risk assessment, extreme events analysis

Ability to work with large, multi-dimensional data (e.g. netCDF, GRIB, TIFF files)

Python knowledge; experience with xarray and knowledge of basic software engineering
principles highly preferred

Experience working with Linux and command line scripting (i.e. bash, zsh) and familiarity
with cloud computing environments highly preferred

Self-management skills and ability to work as part of an Agile team

Strong multitasking and parallel development abilities

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative
and efficient solutions

Strong interpersonal communication skills

Creative, naturally curious, and willing to take intellectual risks

Able to work under competing, quickly-changing priorities, manage expectations effectively
and support the team under pressure

Willingness to travel up to 50% (will likely travel 20-40%) (after current McKinsey travel
restrictions due to COVID-19 are lifted; all work is currently remote)

Who You'll Work With

You will be based in our Denver office as part of McKinsey's Climate Analytics team.

You will learn how to structure business problems and serve as a client advisor while working
closely with other data scientists/engineers and senior leaders across industries shaping the
future of climate.

Climate Analytics is McKinsey's core team of experts who analyze, and generate insights from,
the quantitative impact of climate change for our clients. McKinsey's Climate Analytics team is
a small, close-knit team of ~10 within a broader team called Sustainability Insights composed
of data scientists, engineers and expert consultants dedicated to conducting advanced analytics
on sustainability topics.

Our Climate Analytics team works across all sectors at McKinsey being impacted by climate
change - for example, the public, energy, and financial sectors. Regardless of the sectors in
which you work, you will get the opportunity to work with multi-disciplinary teams with
digital, analytics, research and business backgrounds. Our Climate Analytics team is an agile
team within the firm whose goal is to use the latest analytical methods, incubate new
technologies and drive innovative ways to develop new opportunities for the firm to make
significant and lasting client impact - redefining what it means to provide the "best of the
firm" to our clients.

What You'll Do

You will leverage your deep knowledge of climate and earth systems as well as analytical
expertise to provide insights to clients, strengthen our core client product offerings and
disseminate climate-related insights via internally and externally published articles and
visualizations.

In this role, you will spend half of your time solving specific business problems on client
projects (either remotely or on site) and you will spend the other half of your time developing
new, or improving upon existing, products for the climate analytics team. As a member of a
client service team, you will leverage your creativity and problem-solving skills to design
solutions to core business problems that best meet client needs. You will also communicate the
outcomes and insights of your work to primarily non-technical executive audiences.

On client projects, your tasks will include retrieving and processing large amounts of data
from cloud storage, conducting analyses and generating insight based on medium to long term
projected changes in climate. You will be utilizing your climate domain expertise to provide
climate-specific insight and inform strategy for addressing climate risk across
industries.

When working internally with the climate analytics team, you will improve current product
offerings (what we call "IP development") to best meet our most common client needs. You will
work in a collaborative agile team environment where you will bring together a variety of
global data sources, implement different algorithms and utilize cutting edge methodologies and
approaches to develop proprietary solutions. You will work together with our data engineering
team to design and deploy applications and dashboards to deliver faster, more impactful
insights to our clients.

You will have access to unparalleled career acceleration, with ownership and responsibility to
lead the work you do from day one in a collaborative, diverse, non-hierarchical environment.
You will have the opportunity to travel to client sites, locally and around the world, to be
able to provide direct and measurable impact to some of the largest players from energy to
agriculture around the globe.

Industries

Agriculture

Functions

Sustainability

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