Remote Lead Data Acquisition Engineer – UK Energy Platform

APEXION; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data solutions company seeks a Lead Data Acquisition Engineer to build data pipelines for a national commercial energy platform. This role involves designing scraping processes, managing large public datasets, and building an entity resolution pipeline to ensure accurate data modelling. Candidates should have experience with Python, SQL, and data scraping pipelines, along with a solid understanding of UK datasets. This position is remote and requires close collaboration with the founding team.

Qualifications

• 3-6+ years as a Data Engineer or Data Acquisition Engineer.
• Experience scraping large public datasets at scale.
• Strong background in entity resolution and fuzzy matching.

Responsibilities

• Own data acquisition and scraping.
• Design and run scraping pipelines for public datasets.
• Build entity resolution pipelines to normalize company names.

Skills

Strong Python

Strong SQL

Data scraping experience

Entity resolution

Basic geospatial knowledge

Tools

Scrapy

BeautifulSoup

Airflow

Job description

A leading data solutions company seeks a Lead Data Acquisition Engineer to build data pipelines for a national commercial energy platform. This role involves designing scraping processes, managing large public datasets, and building an entity resolution pipeline to ensure accurate data modelling. Candidates should have experience with Python, SQL, and data scraping pipelines, along with a solid understanding of UK datasets. This position is remote and requires close collaboration with the founding team.