Senior Data Engineer: Build Platform & AI for Net Zero

Octopus Energy Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Octopus Electric Vehicles is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead and evolve our data platform and pipelines, delivering reliable data foundations for analytics and ML workloads. You’ll work across squads to ingest data, optimize architecture, and build scalable data processes that power decarbonisation initiatives.

You’ll implement robust data QA, collaborate with engineering teams, and shape the growth of a high-impact data team focused on production-ready data science capabilities.

Qualifications

• 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, API endpoints.
• Knowledge of ML infrastructure and data platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and optimise our platform architecture (reliability, scalability, maintainability).
• Build new data sources and data pipelines with API integrations.
• Scope and deliver new data engineering projects with business stakeholders.
• Develop and deploy ML infrastructure to support AI use cases.
• Collaborate with dev teams to integrate back-end databases and data platform.
• Shape the direction of our growing team and coach members on best practices.

Skills

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

Spark

dbt

Terraform

Data Warehousing

MLOps

Airflow

Governance

Job description

Octopus Electric Vehicles is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead and evolve our data platform and pipelines, delivering reliable data foundations for analytics and ML workloads. You’ll work across squads to ingest data, optimize architecture, and build scalable data processes that power decarbonisation initiatives.

You’ll implement robust data QA, collaborate with engineering teams, and shape the growth of a high-impact data team focused on production-ready data science capabilities.