Data Engineer

hackajob is partnering directly with Octopus Energy to hire for this role.

What we do. Electric Car Leasing

Why we do it. Greener. Fairer. Future.

At Octopus Electric Vehicles we've built a data platform that provides data services to all areas of our business. The aim of the platform is to enable self-service of data analytics to data hungry internal users as well as automation of all our data workflows - from simple ETL jobs to ML training and prediction.

The data team at OEV is growing at speed. We have invested time and resources on establishing a core data platform, and are now leveraging technology to automate processes and reporting, so we can focus on improving how our data platform works as a system - from improving data latency and reliability, to thinking about making our data ready for productionised data science applications.

We are looking for an experienced data engineer that is equally passionate about using technology to grow the business and decarbonise the UK's fleet.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on data problems that genuinely move us closer to Net Zero with a company that is passionate about building great technology to change the way customers travel sustainably.

What you'll do Own and optimise our platform architecture (improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, etc)

Build new data sources and data pipelines that deliver key data and insights to the business (this will include integration with third party systems and ingestion through APIs)

Scope and deliver new data engineering projects in collaboration with business stakeholders

Develop and deploy ML infrastructure to help build out our ever-growing AI requirements and use cases

Collaborate closely with our dev teams to build seamless integrations between our back-end databases and our data platform

Shape the direction of our growing team and coach team members on best practices

What you'll have You don't need experience with electric vehicles (we can teach you that!), but having worked in similar environments might be a bonus.

First and foremost, a passion for decarbonisation

Ability to work with ambiguity and own problems end-to-end

A passion for writing high quality code and ...