Data Engineer (Energy Markets)

Overview

Octopus Energy is a global energy leader revolutionizing the way people use energy. We are a tech company building a cleaner, smarter energy future. The Global Energy Markets team ensures we have the electricity and gas needed to power customers’ homes and businesses, while supporting the grid to accelerate the transition to Net Zero. The team comprises five specialist areas:

• Forecasting – predicting energy demand and generation
• Trading – hedging and shaping our trading positions
• Risk – tracking and reporting ongoing risk to Octopus
• PPA – increasing the share of energy we buy directly from generators
• Engineering – building and running the global technical platform that makes it all work

Our Engineering sub-team keeps everything running. We maintain the global tech platform that powers these processes, and we’re always looking to innovate and improve by building better tools, streamlining workflows, and creating robust systems that support trading operations.

What you will be doing

• Maintaining and developing our data platform infrastructure, helping team members debug and resolve live issues while growing a self-service suite of monitoring tools
• Driving long-term robustness and scalability of trading processes supporting global growth
• Setting up and maintaining processes for capturing, preparing and loading valuable new data into the data lake
• Helping trading, forecasting, risk and PPA teams optimise key operational pipelines while taking responsibility for process maintenance
• Developing automations and alerts to quickly debug where pipelines are failing or showing unprecedented trends
• Working with international teams across the Octopus Energy Group to ensure best practices and standardised code where possible

What you'll have

• Strong experience in platform infrastructure development with Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform/OpenTofu IAC, Postgres, CDC systems and Docker
• Passion for enabling self-service platform monitoring using Datadog, Grafana and Prometheus
• Expertise with SQL and Python as core data languages
• Solid experience with Django and WSGI
• Experience with data products such as Airflow, Spark, dbt, Jupyter
• Ability to translate needs into a solid set of requirements and design scalable solutions
• Team player with ownership mindset across projects and tools
• Passion for driving towards Net Zero
• Pushes for knowledge sharing and documentation for a more effective platform
• Open to travelling to Octopus offices across Europe and the US

Why you’ll love it here

• Salary: details discussed with recruiters; there is flexibility and we aim to match your experience with the right package
• Unique culture with autonomy and collaboration; recognised as a top employer

For this role we are looking for someone who would be happy to work in the Paris office 2-3 days a week.

Our process usually takes up to four weeks, but we’ll flex around what works for you. You’ll chat with our recruitment team and your recruiter will help throughout the stages. For questions, email

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

We aim to provide an inclusive interview process and accommodate needs where possible. We do not discriminate on protected attributes and are committed to equal opportunities for everyone.

Seniority level

• Not Applicable

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Utilities and Environmental Services

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