octoenergy - Data Engineer (Tech Lead/Staff)
Responsibilities
• Own and optimise our platform architecture (improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, etc) • Shape the direction of our growing team and coach team members on best practices. • Shape engineering outputs and raising the technical bar of the organization without losing touch with hands-on engineering • Interact with Senior Leadership to present your data projects back to them • Build new data sources and data pipelines that deliver key data and insights to the business (this will include integration with third party systems and ingestion through APIs) • Scope and deliver new data engineering projects in collaboration with business stakeholders • Develop and deploy ML infrastructure to help build out our ever-growing AI requirements and use cases • Collaborate closely with our dev teams to build seamless integrations between our back-end databases and our data platform • ## What you'll have • You don’t need experience with electric vehicles (we can teach you that!), but having worked in similar environments might be a bonus. • First and foremost, a passion for decarbonisation • Ability to work with ambiguity and own problems end-to-end • Experience managing/mentoring/coaching high performance data teams • A passion for writing high quality code and building lean processes • Experience with distributed data processing • Experience with monitoring, testing, and data quality • Experience building robust pipelines from diverse sources e.g. parquet, SQL & no-SQL databases, API endpoints • It would be helpful to have experience/expertise/knowledge in the following: • Spark & distributed computing • Data Warehousing (we use Databricks but experience with other platforms is fine) • MLOps implementation (desirable but not required) • Airflow (or other orchestration tooling)
Benefits
• At Octopus Electric Vehicles we’ve built a data platform that provides data services to all areas of our business. The aim of the platform is to enable self-service of data analytics to data hungry internal users as well as automation of all our data workflows - from simple ETL jobs to ML training and prediction. • The data team at OEV is growing at speed. We have invested time and resources on establishing a core data platform, and are now leveraging technology to automate processes and reporting, so we can focus on improving how our data platform works as a system - from improving data latency and reliability, to thinking about making our data ready for productionised data science applications. • We are looking for an experienced data engineer that is equally passionate about using technology to grow the business and decarbonise the UK’s fleet. • This is a fantastic opportunity to work on data problems that genuinely move us closer to Net Zero with a company that is passionate about building great technology to change the way customers travel sustainably. • 🎉 Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! 🎁 Visit our perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits • 🏆 Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024. We were named 6th out of the top 100 start-ups to work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership • ## Things to note • 🐶 Just to let you know, we are dog friendly company so you may see our 4 legged friends in the offices - feel free to bring yours! Rest assured though, we've taken lots of precautions for those who have allergies • 🤖 We use AI to help us assess applications fairly and objectively. We’re totally fine with you using AI as a tool to help prepare too. That said, when we get to the interview and assessment stage, we’re really interested in hearing your unique perspective and real-world stories. That’s the stuff we can’t get from a bot or a prompt!
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