Maintaining and developing our critical data applications
scoping and implementing architectural improvements for long-term global scalability and robustness;
Growing our suite of self-service application monitoring tools and alerts to help team members debug live issues and understand historic root causes;
Supporting different Energy Markets teams to design and build key operational and reporting pipelines and dashboards across all Octopus Energy global regions;
Setting up and maintaining processes for capturing, preparing and loading valuable new data into the data lake;
Working with international teams across the Octopus Energy Group to ensure everyone shares the best practises and code is standardised where possible;
Taking ownership of data platform improvements that enhance the capabilities for all Energy Markets teams and drives trust in the stability of the setup.

Strong aptitude with SQL, Python and Airflow essential;
Experience building efficient, scalable databases and APIs (e.g. Django, FastAPI) a huge plus;
Experience in Kubernetes, Docker, Spark and related monitoring tools (e.g. DataDog, Grafana, Prometheus) for DataOps a huge plus;
Experience with dbt for pipeline modelling also beneficial;
Skilled at shaping needs into a solid set of requirements and designing scalable solutions to meet them;
Able to quickly understand new domain areas and visualise data effectively;
Team player excited at the idea of ownership across lots of different projects and tools;
Passion for driving towards Net Zero;
Drives knowledge sharing and documentation for a more effective platform;
Open to travelling to Octopus offices across Europe and the US.

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Data Engineer – Energy Markets

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