Lead Data Engineer: Platform & ML Infra for Decarbonisation

NextGenEnergyJobs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Octopus Electric Vehicles is seeking a senior data platform engineer to own and optimize our data architecture, ensuring reliability and scalability. You will shape the team, coach members on best practices, and raise the technical bar while staying hands-on with data engineering.

You will build new data sources and pipelines, integrate with third-party systems via APIs, and collaborate with senior leadership to present data projects and insights that drive business decisions.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead and mentor high-performance data teams.
• Strong coding skills with a bias for quality and lean processes.
• Experience building robust pipelines from diverse data sources.

Responsibilities

• Own and optimise our data platform architecture focusing on reliability and scalability.
• Shape the direction of the growing data team and coach team members on best practices.
• Build data sources and pipelines, including API integrations and third-party systems.
• Collaborate with leadership to present data projects and insights.

Skills

Python

AWS

Spark

Distributed computing

Data pipelines

MLOps

Airflow

Parquet

SQL

No-SQL

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

dbt

Kubernetes

Job description

Octopus Electric Vehicles is seeking a senior data platform engineer to own and optimize our data architecture, ensuring reliability and scalability. You will shape the team, coach members on best practices, and raise the technical bar while staying hands-on with data engineering.

You will build new data sources and pipelines, integrate with third-party systems via APIs, and collaborate with senior leadership to present data projects and insights that drive business decisions.