Data Engineer; Tech Lead

What we do. Electric Car Leasing

Why we do it. Greener. Fairer. Future.

At Octopus Electric Vehicles we’ve built a data platform that provides data services to all areas of our business. The aim of the platform is to enable self‑service of data analytics to data hungry internal users as well as automation of all our data workflows – from simple ETL jobs to ML training and prediction.

The data team at OEV is growing  have invested time and resources on establishing a core data platform, and are now leveraging technology to automate processes and reporting, so we can focus on improving how our data platform works as a system – from improving data latency and reliability, to thinking about making our data ready for productionised data science applications.

We are looking for a data engineer who has operated at Staff/Tech Lead level that is equally passionate about using technology to grow the business and decarbonise the UK’s fleet.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on data problems that genuinely move us closer to Net Zero with a company that is passionate about building great technology to change the way customers travel sustainably.

• 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 raise 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.

You don’t need experience with electric vehicles (we can teach you that!), but having worked in similar environments might be a bonus.

• 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

About us

Octopus Electric Vehicles launched in 2018 to make it seamless to switch to cleaner, greener driving. Our mission is to drive sustainable change, decarbonise the planet and provide our customers with fair pricing and a fantastic experience.

We’re an Octopus Energy company—an innovative new energy supplier. We are part of the Octopus Energy Group, which seeks to improve the lives of millions of people by transforming the industries we operate in. The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Healthcare, Octopus Investments, Octopus Property, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs.

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

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.