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About the Role
We are seeking a Staff/Tech Lead Data Engineer to help scale our data platform, automate workflows, and support our mission of decarbonizing the UK fleet. You will own platform architecture, mentor the team, and collaborate with leadership to deliver high-impact data solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own and optimize platform architecture for reliability, scalability, and maintainability
- Shape team direction and coach members on best practices
- Raise the technical bar while maintaining hands-on engineering involvement
- Present data projects to senior leadership
- Build new data sources and pipelines including third-party API integrations
- Scope and deliver data engineering projects with business stakeholders
- Develop and deploy ML infrastructure
- Collaborate with development teams on back-end database and platform integrations
Requirements
- Passion for decarbonization
- Ability to work with ambiguity and own problems end-to-end
- Experience managing, mentoring, or coaching high-performance data teams
- Passion for writing high-quality code and building lean processes
- Experience with distributed data processing
- Experience with monitoring, testing, and data quality
- Experience building robust pipelines from diverse sources like parquet, SQL, NoSQL, and APIs
Skills
- Python
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Spark
- Distributed computing
- dbt
- Terraform
- Data Warehousing
- Databricks
- MLOps
- Airflow
- Data Governance
Experience Level
- Staff level
- Tech Lead level
Benefits
- Flexible salary based on experience
- Dog-friendly office environment
- Access to Octopus Employee Benefits perks hub
About the Company
- Octopus Electric Vehicles is part of the Octopus Energy Group
- Focused on electric car leasing and sustainable travel
- Mission to drive sustainable change and decarbonize the planet
- Awarded Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024
- Recognized as a top start-up and top place to work
Equal Opportunity
- Equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute
- Committed to providing equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone
- Encourages applications from all individuals regardless of whether they meet 100% of the job requirements