Senior Data Platform Engineer – AI-Driven Pipelines

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

Job summary

Voltility seeks a Senior Technical Engineer to own the end-to-end data collection platform. You will build pipelines from public and licensed sources, apply AI and rules-based extraction, and ensure trusted, structured records at scale.

You will own architecture, guide junior engineers, and work with product teams to ensure data flows cleanly into the client-facing platform. Focus is on data engineering with a hands-on full-stack approach.

Qualifications

• Strong Python and SQL with production experience across data pipelines, APIs and cloud infra
• Experience with web scraping, document/PDF extraction and LLM-based data structuring
• Track record building data products/pipelines where data quality matters
• Ability to translate non-technical specs into build plans and explain trade-offs clearly
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and energy/data-heavy domains

Responsibilities

• Design, build and run the collection platform and architecture: ingestion, extraction, matching, QA flags and storage into the product database
• Work with research leadership to prioritise data points to automate, set quality thresholds and measure coverage and freshness
• Apply LLM-based extraction, scraping and APIs with verification so output is trusted or clearly flagged
• Build tooling for researchers to review, correct and approve machine-collected data and improve it from feedback
• Develop tooling to help squads find and track targets (change detection, alerts, entity matching)
• Own reliability, monitoring and cost of pipelines and fix issues
• Maintain clean, documented code and data models for others to work on
• Mentor and assign work to junior engineers
• Collaborate with product engineering so data flows into the client-facing platform

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

APIs

Cloud infrastructure

Front-end tooling

Web scraping

LLM-based extraction

Mentoring

Agentic coding harnesses

Tools

Codex/Claude Code

Job description

Voltility seeks a Senior Technical Engineer to own the end-to-end data collection platform. You will build pipelines from public and licensed sources, apply AI and rules-based extraction, and ensure trusted, structured records at scale.

You will own architecture, guide junior engineers, and work with product teams to ensure data flows cleanly into the client-facing platform. Focus is on data engineering with a hands-on full-stack approach.