Data Engineer – Tech Lead

Octopus Energy

Data Engineer focused on optimizing and automating data services for electric vehicle leasing. Leading a data team to drive decarbonization with innovative technology solutions.

Posted 7/22/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in data engineering, including building and optimizing data pipelines, managing high-performance teams, and developing machine learning infrastructure. Proficient in integrating diverse data sources and ensuring data quality while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver impactful insights.

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Data Pipeline DevelopmentTeam Management and CoachingDistributed Data ProcessingPython ProgrammingAWS Infrastructure

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Hard Skills

Data EngineeringData Quality MonitoringData WarehousingMLOps ImplementationDistributed ComputingAPI IntegrationSQL DatabasesNo-SQL DatabasesParquetTerraform

Soft Skills

Problem SolvingCollaborationAdaptabilityCommunicationCoaching

Tools & Technologies

AWSKubernetesSparkDbtDatabricksAirflow

Industry Keywords

DecarbonisationGovernanceData ArchitectureMachine LearningData Integration

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAWSKubernetesPythonSparkSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and optimise our platform architecture (improve reliability, scalability, maintainability, etc)
Shape the direction of our growing team and coach team members on best practices.
Shape engineering outputs and raising the technical bar of the organization without losing touch with hands-on engineering
Interact with Senior Leadership to present your data projects back to them
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

Requirements

What you’ll need

First and foremost, a passion for decarbonisation
Ability to work with ambiguity and own problems end-to-end
Experience managing/mentoring/coaching high performance data teams
A passion for writing high quality code and building lean processes
Experience with distributed data processing
Experience with monitoring, testing, and data quality
Experience building robust pipelines from diverse sources e.g. parquet, SQL & no-SQL databases, API endpoints
It would be helpful to have experience/expertise/knowledge in the following:
Python
AWS
Kubernetes
Spark & distributed computing
dbt
Terraform
Data Warehousing (we use Databricks but experience with other platforms is fine)
MLOps implementation (desirable but not required)
Airflow (or other orchestration tooling)
Governance

Benefits

Comp & perks

Wondering what the salary for this role is? Just ask us!
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 want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about!
Octopus Electric Vehicles, part of the Octopus Energy Group, won the Sunday Times best company to work for in 2024.
We were named 6th out of the top 100 start-ups to work for by Tempo in 2025 and on Glassdoor we were voted 50 best places to work in 2022.