Senior Data Engineer

About the role

We're making energy fair, clean, and simple for all using technology. Octopus Energy started with a bold idea: to build Britain’s first truly digital energy supplier. By combining world-class tech with brilliant humans who care deeply about customers and driving the renewable energy transition, we made it happen and in 2025, we became Britain’s largest energy supplier. Octopus Energy Group is a global energy transition collective. 10 businesses working across 4 continents to tackle energy transformation at nearly every front. And we constantly push to make energy better. Tirelessly campaigning for fair protections for customers.

What you’ll do

• Acting as the flexibility team’s first full-time data engineer, establish the team’s data capability, lead the team’s data engineering technical direction and represent the team to the cross-team data community
• Upskill data-literate backend engineers, act as the team's data expert and as a multiplier on other engineers' impact
• Establish greenfield data engineering systems in a newly established AWS environment
• Provide a foundational layer of high quality data processing and warehousing that will enable future projects for both our team and others
• Maintain and develop critical data applications - scoping and implementing architectural improvements for long-term global scalability, robustness and operational efficiency
• Interface with the established data warehouse, built on Databricks
• Take ownership of data platform improvements that enhance the capabilities for all teams and drive trust in the stability of the system