Analytics Engineering Lead

Job title:

Analytics Engineering Lead

Location:

London / Bristol / Edinburgh (Hybrid - 3 days in office)
Salary: 90,Team:
Data This role is based in London, Bristol or Edinburgh and requires existing right to work in the UK.At this time, we are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role. We are committed to building a diverse, global team and our sponsorship policy is evaluated on a role-by-role basis. We encourage you to keep an eye on our careers site to stay informed about future opportunities where we are able to offer visa sponsorship.

Kaluza is the Energy Intelligence Platform, turning energy complexity into seamless coordination. We help energy companies overcome today’s challenges while accelerating the shift to a clean, electrified future.

Our platform orchestrates millions of real-time decisions across homes, devices, markets and grids. By combining predictive algorithms with human-centred design, Kaluza makes clean energy dependable, affordable and adaptive to everyday life.

With teams across Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, and a joint venture with Mitsubishi Corporation in Japan, we power leading companies including OVO, AGL and ENGIE, as well as innovators like Volvo and Volkswagen.

What will I be doing?

As a Analytics Engineer Lead, you'll set the gold standard for our data practices 'll be the architect responsible for making our data scalable, reliable, and built on modern best practices — driving the strategy behind our data models and bridging the gap between high-level business goals and technical reality.

You'll define and enforce engineering best practices (CI/CD, modularity) across the data organisation, develop advanced modelling solutions for complex scenarios, and research and implement modern data stack tooling. You'll own the long-term vision for data modelling, design and implement data governance frameworks, and act as lead responder for GDPR-related incidents. Working cross-functionally, you'll partner with Product to shape the Analytics Engineering Roadmap, translate complex business needs into technical requirements, and champion a data-driven culture across Kaluza.

About You Ideally you’ll have/be Expert-level proficiency in SQL and dbt, with a strong focus on writing clean, reusable, and testable code Mastery of dimensional data modelling and the ability to develop solutions for highly complex scenarios

Proven ability to drive adoption of new standards, patterns, and tools across multiple teams without direct authority

Exceptional communication skills — able to explain technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders and senior business leaders

Strong stakeholder management experience, with the ability to extract core requirements and identify the source of truth in complex, cross-functional environmentsA deep, end-to-end understanding of the data lifecycle, from ingestion and transformation through to consumption

What will set you apart Experience owning and driving a long-term data modelling strategy, not just contributing to one Hands-on experience designing and implementing data governance frameworks

Experience acting as a lead responder for GDPR or data privacy incidentsA track record of leading rapid proof of concepts to validate new technologies or approaches

Experience contributing to broader data org strategy and influencing data culture at an organisational level

Kaluza Values Here at Kaluza we have five core values that guide us as a business:
Play to win, Solve the real problem, Build trust every day, Own the outcome, Go further together.

Our Perks Pension Scheme Discretionary Bonus Scheme Private Medical Insurance + Virtual GPLife Assurance Access to Furthr - a Climate Action appFree Mortgage Advice and Eye Tests Perks at Work -…