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Data Engineer - KrakenFlex

Octopus Energy Ltd, City Centre, Manchester

Data Engineer - KrakenFlex

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Octopus Energy Ltd, City Centre, Manchester

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 days ago, 20 Nov | Get your application in today.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: c72e0f16b8494ec08821dfc723145a29

Full Job Description

  • Build and maintain data pipelines that deliver key data and insights to the business and our customers
  • Integrate new data sources into the data platform through APIs, CDC or bulk data transfer
  • 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
  • Support the internationalisation of our data infrastructure as we continue to grow globally
  • Contribute to the software engineering and data engineering culture here at Kraken
  • Collaborate regularly with colleagues with many different professional specialities, including software engineers and data scientists, to create innovative solutions that delight our customers and colleagues
  • Work as part of a globally distributed team of engineers, regularly seeking feedback and growing your skills as technical professionals.

    In depth industry experience in a data engineering capacity
  • Experience in Python
  • Experience with data processing and/or analytics technologies e.g.Databricks, dbt, AWS Glue, Spark, Airflow, Redshift, SQL, Parquet/delta (don't worry, we don't expect or want you to have them all, and experience with other technologies doing the same jobs is also interesting)
  • Industry experience in software development & design
  • A drive to get things done in a collaborative, agile development environment
  • An interest in working with large data sets, both processing and analysing, and building data products for our customers
  • A proven ability to perform and communicate well in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent analytical and multitasking skills, Experience with BI and/or Analytics tools, e.g. Athena, Tableau, Quicksight
  • Experience working with data lakes and data at scale
  • Experience migrating data between platforms at scale
  • Experience with AWS or similar cloud providers, and serverless technologies e.g. AWS Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, API Gateway
  • Experience developing, securing or operating cloud scale applications or infrastructure; ideally terraform or cloudformation
  • Experience working with a team distributed across multiple continents and timezones

    Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe!
    • Kraken powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy. We're a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation, creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences, our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone. It's a really exciting time in energy. Help us make a real impact on shaping a better, more sustainable future. KrakenFlex The energy industry is undergoing the largest transformation since industrialisation at an unprecedented rate of change and we are positioning ourselves to be at the heart of that change. Our aim is to be the leading global provider of solutions that enable customers to release £30bn of value per annum from distributed energy resources (DERs). We are building a Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription business with a global addressable market of £2.4 billion per annum, by digitally connecting hundreds of thousands of DERs with energy markets. We have already attained a market leading position and KrakenFlex is a recognised thought leader and innovator in the industry. Our efforts have not gone unnoticed and we are pleased to announce that we now have the full support and backing of Octopus Energy, an award-winning UK energy supplier who share our passion and values. As we enter the stage of rapid commercialisation and customer account growth, we have a number of exciting new offerings to launch to customers. We're looking for an exceptional person to help us continuously deliver features that provide value to our customers. Our ideal engineer would be an individual who loves to engage with interesting software problems, with an interest in data related development and the passion to build and shape the future within a collaborative, community-based environment. We operate a highly agile development approach, giving wide scope to be involved with hands-on system-design, test driven development, deployment and operations. Our data sources and problems are many and varied. We have some simple but high throughput data sources (e.g. over 5,000,000,000 rows a day and growing rapidly), complex unstructured and semi structured data and complex application data from our various microservices. Our aim is to allow our business and our customers to answer increasingly complex questions, and gain new insights, based on our data, additional external data, and things we can learn and models we can extract from our data.