Senior Data Engineer
Octopus EnergyLondon (GB), United Kingdom
Full Time
Posted September 2, 2026
£27k - £29k· Est.
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Job Description
We're making energy fair, clean, and simple for all using technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Acting as the flexibility team’s first full-time data engineer, establish the team’s data capability, lead the team’s data engineering technical direction and represent the team to the cross-team data community
- Upskill data-literate backend engineers, act as the team's data expert and as a multiplier on other engineers' impact
- Establish greenfield data engineering systems in a newly established AWS environment
- Provide a foundational layer of high quality data processing and warehousing that will enable future projects for both our team and others
- Maintain and develop critical data applications - scoping and implementing architectural improvements for long-term global scalability, robustness and operational efficiency
- Interface with the established data warehouse, built on Databricks
- Take ownership of data platform improvements that enhance the capabilities for all teams and drive trust in the stability of the system
Requirements
- Strong aptitude with SQL, Python and AWS data stack essential;
- Experience building efficient, scalable databases and APIs (e.g. Django, FastAPI) a huge plus;
- Experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Spark and related monitoring tools (e.g. DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus) for DataOps a huge plus;
- Experience with Airflow a huge plus;
- Experience with dbt for pipeline modelling also beneficial;
- Skilled at shaping needs into a solid set of requirements and designing scalable solutions to meet them;
- Able to quickly understand new domain areas and visualise data effectively;
- Team player excited at the idea of ownership across lots of different projects and tools;
- Drives knowledge sharing and documentation for a more effective platform;
- Desirable: energy domain knowledge
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