Head of Analytics Platform Engineering

At Octopus we've developed data platforms to provide data services to our businesses around the world. The data platform enables self-service of data analytics to hundreds of data hungry users as well as automation of all our data workflows from simple ETL jobs to ML training and prediction. This supports work across the whole energy domain, from measuring performance of our green energy generation assets to processing billions of smart meter readings for innovative tariffs.

As the volume, scope and geographical range of our data services rapidly expand, we're looking for an engineer to join the team to help us build and maintain the data visualisation and analytical platform capabilities to support the whole business, enabling ML tooling for the data science team, intuitive dashboards for our front-line operators and many other impactful uses of our data.

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 use energy.

A little heads-up: With some of our team taking some well-deserved annual leave over the next couple of weeks, we may not get around to carefully reviewing all applications until the new year. Every application gets reviewed by a real human, and we'll be in touch to let you know either way-whether it's a yes or, sadly, a no this time round. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

What you'll do

• Build tools and services to improve our data visualisation and machine learning capabilities
• Build and maintain testing and documentation frameworks for our data sources
• Work with the business to scope and deliver new data engineering projects and requirements
• Maintain and build on our existing data infrastructure and tools
• Advise on decisions to buy platforms or build in-house
• Support the internationalisation of our data infrastructure

What you'll need

• A passion for writing high quality code
• An ability to balance multiple stakeholders and competing priorities
• The projects will be varied and self-driven, so we're looking for someone who can work autonomously and proactively to scope problems and solve and deliver pragmatic solutions
• Experience in supplier management will be a bonus, as will people management given expected future growth of this role
• Experience building and/or implementing tools which enable insights to be drawn from data

It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order):

• Python
• SQL
• Streamlit
• ML Flow
• Experience deploying data services in a cloud environment (ideally AWS)

Our data platform stack

• Python as our main programming language
• Databricks as our datalake platform
• Kubernetes for data services and task orchestration
• Streamlit for data applications
• Airflow purely for job scheduling and tracking
• Circle CI for continuous deployment
• Parquet and Delta file formats on S3 for data lake storage
• Spark for data processing
• dbt for data modelling
• SparkSQL for analytics

Why else you'll love it here

• Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!
• Octopus Energy Group is a unique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We won best company to work for in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022 and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. We've also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership and most recently The Sunday Times, Best Places To Work 2023 and again in 2024
• We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! Visit our UK perks hub - Octopus Employee Benefits

If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.

Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. Need any specific accommodations? Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!

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