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We are looking for a senior, hands-on Lead Data Engineer to join the Good Energy data team. Reporting to the Head of Data, you will take full ownership of designing, implementing, and maintaining complex data systems and solutions, ensuring they are scalable, efficient, and aligned with business objectives. You’ll drive data initiatives from conception to delivery, working independently to manage projects while collaborating closely with business analysts, BI analysts, testers, solution analysts, and fellow engineers. Your contributions will help ensure our data solutions meet business requirements and integrate seamlessly into the wider Good Energy data ecosystem.
As a lead engineer, you’ll set the standard for best practices in data engineering, particularly around coding standards, data quality, and solution design. You’ll mentor team members, propose innovative data solutions, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. Your leadership and technical expertise will be essential in shaping the direction of our data infrastructure and driving the success of our data initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement data solutions: Lead the design, development, and optimisation of data pipelines, data models, and data architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability across the organisation.
- Collaboration with cross-functional teams: Work closely with data team members, technology teams, and business stakeholders to ensure data solutions align with Good Energy’s objectives and strategy.
- Driving best practices: Champion best practices for data engineering, including coding standards, data quality, data security, and documentation, ensuring consistency and maintainability across projects.
- Team member support: Provide technical support and guidance to the data team, creating a collaborative, learning-driven environment that encourages team development.
- End-to-end ownership: Manage the lifecycle of data projects and pipelines, from design and delivery through to monitoring and troubleshooting.
- Data governance and compliance: Ensure data governance, privacy, and security are prioritised in the design and delivery of data initiatives.
- Documentation and knowledge sharing: Maintain documentation for data engineering projects, leading knowledge-sharing efforts within the team to support development and enhance team capabilities.
What you'll need to succeed
We’re looking for an experienced Data Engineer with a strong technical background and a passion for driving innovation in data engineering. You’ll be comfortable managing complex data projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and setting the standard for best practices in the field. You’ll be proactive, self-motivated, and have the expertise to ensure data systems are not only scalable and secure but also aligned with the business’s strategic goals.
Essentials:
- Be the key decision maker on the right technology stack for cloud data processing for the business
- Able to demonstrate an ongoing passion to stay up to date with the latest ETL technologies
- Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable data solutions on the Azure cloud platform.
- Architect data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows using Azure Data Factory & Azure Databricks.
- Advanced SQL knowledge and a strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and data modelling techniques (e.g., star/snowflake schemas).
- Experience leading or mentoring team of data engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and best practices.
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with executives, product teams, and IT.
- Familiarity with Agile or Scrum methodologies.
Desirables:
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for data solutions using tools like Azure DevOps.
- Wider Azure knowledge including SQL Servers, Event Hubs, Log Analytics, and Key Vaults.
- Familiarity with areas such as - Data Governance, Data Science, Data Architecture, AI / Machine Learning.
- Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Data Analytics, Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate).
- Experience in the energy industry.
Benefits you can rely on
💰 Great allowances for hybrid working: We support employees with their commuting expenses and provide flexibility for remote working.
£500 work from home allowance - an annual allowance paid monthly alongside your salary to support with working from home costs.
£500 travel allowance - an annual allowance paid monthly alongside your salary to support with travelling to work costs.
📖 £500 annual development allowance: To spend on your chosen development area, whether that’s in your current role, or future roles.
🎁 15% Annual bonus - company-wide bonus scheme designed to reward collective teamwork and delivery of results across the whole business.
🌞 Holiday: 25 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, additional days leave for long service, plus bank holidays. You’ll also have the option to buy additional leave, allowing for a better work-life balance.
💸 Ethical Pension with Aviva: Good Energy offers an ethical pension plan provided by Aviva, with employer-matched contributions up to 7.5% of your base salary.
About Good Energy
Good Energy helps customers generate, share, store, use and travel with clean power. Our aim is to help one million homes and businesses cut their carbon by 2025. We are developing smart services to support customers to do more with their renewable energy.
We supply truly renewable electricity sourced from over 2,000 generators across the UK. Our tariffs are independently certified with the Uswitch Green Tariff Gold Standard and we are accredited as an Eco Provider by Which?
Now we’re in an exciting period of significant growth and development, after recently expanding our business to provide energy services, including installing heat pumps and solar panels.
We’re also a major investor in Zap-Map, the UK’s go-to electric vehicle charging app with more than half a million registered users.
Our customer service is rated ‘excellent’ on TrustPilot and according to Best Companies, we’re a ‘World Class’ employer — in the top 100 best large companies to work for in the country.
If you’re ready to make combatting the climate crisis your job, and believe in our values of being, fair, straightforward, focused, and inclusive, then we want to hear from you. Let’s power a cleaner, greener future together.
