Climate Data Engineer

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution is looking for a Climate Data Engineer to develop data-driven solutions and enhance customer experiences. The ideal candidate should have extensive ETL design experience, understanding of cloud platforms, and the ability to manage diverse stakeholders. This role offers a flexible, remote-first working environment, making a significant impact on business strategy through data.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data usage and dependencies.
• Experience extracting value from large-scale data.
• Practical experience with programming languages.
• Knowledge of software engineering fundamentals.
• Familiarity with climate data sets is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop innovative data-driven solutions through data pipelines.
• Engage with data engineering community.
• Build advanced automation of data engineering pipelines.
• Source new data using the appropriate tooling.
• Develop solutions for streaming data ingestion.

Skills

ETL technical design

Data quality testing

Data warehousing

Data modelling

Communication skills

Cloud-based platforms

Big data environments

Snowflake

AWS

Airflow

Job description

Overview

Join us as a Climate Data Engineer

You'll be the voice of our customers, using data to tell their stories and put them at the heart of all decision-making. We'll look to you to drive the build of effortless, digital first customer experiences. If you're ready for a new challenge and want to make a far-reaching impact through your work, this could be the opportunity you're looking for.

What you'll do

As a Climate Data Engineer, you'll be looking to simplify our organisation by developing innovative data driven solutions through data pipelines, modelling and ETL design, inspiring to be commercially successful while keeping our customers, and the bank's data, safe and secure.

You'll drive customer value by understanding complex business problems and requirements to correctly apply the most appropriate and reusable tool to gather and build data solutions. You'll support our strategic direction by engaging with the data engineering community to deliver opportunities, along with carrying out complex data engineering tasks to build a scalable data architecture.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Building advanced automation of data engineering pipelines through removal of manual stages
• Embedding new data techniques into our business through role modelling, training, and experiment design oversight
• Delivering a clear understanding of data platform costs to meet your departments cost saving and income targets
• Sourcing new data using the most appropriate tooling for the situation
• Developing solutions for streaming data ingestion and transformations in line with our streaming strategy

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you'll need a strong understanding of data usage and dependencies and experience of extracting value and features from large scale data. You'll also bring practical experience of programming languages alongside knowledge of data and software engineering fundamentals. Knowledge of climate data sets and vendors would be advantageous.

Additionally, you'll need:

• Experience of ETL technical design, data quality testing, cleansing and monitoring, data sourcing, and exploration and analysis
• Data warehousing and data modelling capabilities
• A good understanding of modern code development practices
• Experience of working in a governed, and regulatory environment
• Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage and manage a wide range of stakeholders
• A solid understanding of key technologies within modern data pipelines, including Snowflake, AWS, DBT, DGF and Airflow
• Proven experience working with cloud-based platforms and big data environments

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date: 04/10/2025

Ways of Working: Remote First