🌍 UK, Hybrid
⭐️ Our Perks
Values-driven culture – we’re really proud of our culture.
🙌 Drive Your Own Experience
- Personalised Learning and Development Budget
- Hybrid working hours – Each team has their own Smart Working Charter that empowers you to do your work in the best way you can
- Technology – Your choice of Mac or Windows
✨ Empowering you to be your most authentic self
- 25 Holiday Days + your local bank holidays
- 1 Birthday day – it only happens once a year!
- 3 So Giving Days - spend these days giving back to your chosen cause
- Religious Celebrations Leave
- Mental Healthcare – Sessions with Unmind
- Enhanced Family Leave
So Energy
Who we are
So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 350,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). But we’re not done. We’re on the road to a net zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.
We want to do the best we can for our customers, each other, and our planet, so we’ve created a workplace that's encouraging, supportive, and offers the opportunity for growth. As a company, we live by six core values that guide everything we do:
- Clear
- Honest
- Ambitious
- Inquisitive
- Caring
- Sustainable
The Role
Data Engineer at SO ENERGY
We are looking for someone who has experience building analytics platform with tens of different source of data, someone that can leverage modern tools and programming languages to build ETL pipelines and extract intelligence out of the data.
Our users (external but also internal) are extremely important to us. Understanding how their experience is throughout the various touch points is very important. Being able to apply data intelligence best practices to be able to understand and later forecast behaviour and trends is the main objective
Reporting to our Data Manager
What you’ll be getting up to:
- Work closely with internal business teams gathering data requirements; translating them to technical artifacts and mapping them to Google Platform.
- As a Data Engineer at SoEnergy, you will be responsible for building the ETL data pipelines
- Technical ownership, Developing and supporting the Data Lake and Data warehouse within GCP.
- Candidates must have strong GCP knowledge and hands on experience in Data Engineering space.
- Build real-time & batch data processing pipelines to publish the data in GCP to match the evolving needs of the product and business
- Providing technical support to internal teams within the organisation, and to external when required.
- Coding elegant strategic solutions which are reusable and easily maintainable
- Producing clear concise documentation where required.
- Working closely with the Lead Data Engineering to apply the data strategy, ratifying before creating any ETL pipelines.
- Pro-actively implementing solution to understand better how internal and external users performs
This role will be a great fit if:
- An innovator who is not afraid to put forward ideas for improving team process or suggest new features to the team
- In depth experience in implementing Data & Analytics applications in Google Cloud Platform
- Help to delivery GCP data development projects (including: development/coding, testing and deployment into Production)
- Provision data for analytics, data science and machine learning purposes.
- Expertise in design of data solutions for BigQuery
- Expertise in logical and physical data modelling
- Hands on experience using Google Dataflow, GCS, cloud functions, BigQuery, DataProc, Apache Beam (Python) in designing data transformation rules for batch and data streaming
- Solid Python programming skills and using apache beam(Python).
- Structure of CI / CD for data pipelines
- Maintaining technical documents and procedures in confluence.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies
- Good communication skills, including the ability to translate technical descriptions into something that can be understood by a non-technical business-facing team member
Research shows that some people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified.
Your experience, skills and passion will set you apart so tell us about your achievements, irrespective of whether they are personal or work-related, tell us about your journey, and about what you learnt.
So, if this role excites you, don’t let our role description hold you back, get applying!
Want to tailor your application?
Hiring Process
- Talent interview with the Head of Talent
- Technical interview with our Staff Data Engineer
- Culture interview with our Tech Director
Support –
If you have a medical condition or an individual need for an adjustment to our process, and you believe this may affect your ability to be at your best – please let us know so we can talk about how we can best support you and make any adjustments that may be needed.
Our Values
We look for people who share our values and can add to our culture. Values are shared beliefs that guide our decision-making, culture is how we function as a group and how we live our values as individuals.
Clear - The energy industry can be pretty complex so we strive to provide clear communication to our customers and colleagues
Honest - Transparency is key, Whether that's providing clear bills to our customers or trusting our staff to do the right thing.
Ambitious - All of us are ambitious about the future of So Energy and what we can contribute to it.
Inquisitive - We are also questioning the Status Quo to see if there is a better way to do things for our customers
Caring - We care about the work we are doing, our customers and our colleagues
Sustainable - As a renewable energy company we are providing sustainable products but we also care about sustainable careers. That's why learning and continuous development is so important to us.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging
At So Energy, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a global community and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It’s essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn’t just an initiative at So Energy. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture.
