Lead Data Engineer, Octopus Energy Group
Gross Margin
2+ days a week in office
Entech company
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Entech company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
Octopus Energy's mission is to speed the transition to a sustainable, low carbon future through renewable energy and technology whilst putting customers at the heart of everything they do.
Role
Who you are
- Proven Track Record: History of shipping product updates, getting things done, and leading teams in high-growth, product-focused organisations
- Management and Leadership Experience: 2+ years managing high-performance engineering teams, with a focus on people leadership, providing support, coaching, and development
- Modern Data Expertise: 5+ years building highly scalable technology products using SQL and Python. Experience with Databricks, dbt, Spark and AWS would be a big plus
- Commercial Mindset: Experience in financial reporting is not required (although a plus), but appreciation for the business implications of what the data shows us is key
- Test Driven Development: Passion for ensuring code changes improve our view of Gross Margin and don’t inadvertently break anything else
- Hands-on Approach: You are eager to contribute to design and code alongside your team
- Engineering Excellence: Fostering a high bar for engineering excellence, holding teams accountable for technical outcomes and individual growth
- Balanced Decision-Making: Ability to make trade-offs between product velocity and technical debt to iteratively improve the pipeline
- Technical Influence: Partnering with other engineers to drive initiatives that elevate best practices
- Stakeholder Relationships: Building strong relationships with other teams to ensure they are able (and know how) to get the most benefit from the pipeline
What the job involves
- The Gross Margin pipeline - for which you will be responsible along with a team of three engineers - uses a vast amount of data and produces a highly granular view of consumption, revenue and costs. Challenges include the quantity and quality of data and the estimations required where data does not exist.
- We have a superb pipeline with a very exciting dataset, analysis from which provides valuable information s across the business, e.g. driving development of Octopus’ industry-leading Time Of Use tariffs, refining financial forecasting, and preventing multi-million pound write-offs
- The Lead Data Engineer will drive the technical vision behind this pipeline as our customer base continues to grow and market development towards net zero requires an increasingly data-heavy calculation of energy consumption, and will also take joint responsibility for the accuracy of our outputs and guiding engineers in the team on their own career progression
- Product Leadership: You will shape the design of the Gross Margin pipeline so it continues to accurately reflect actual revenue and costs when reconciled against internal billing systems and external industry flow data, whilst also making it more accessible and valuable to teams across the wider Octopus business
- People Leadership: You will support and develop the technical progression of top-tier engineering talent while fostering an inclusive and productive team environment
- Technical Leadership: You will oversee the technical and delivery outcomes of our Gross Margin pipeline for maximum scalability, efficiency and simplicity whilst driving best practices within the codebase
Application process
- A little heads-up: With some of our team taking some well-deserved annual leave over the next couple of weeks, we may not get around to carefully reviewing all applications until the new year.
- Every application gets reviewed by a real human, and we’ll be in touch to let you know either way—whether it’s a yes or, sadly, a no this time round. Thanks for your patience and understanding!
Salary benchmarks
Our take
According to Octopus, the energy industry in the UK is ruled by a handful of complacent companies peddling fossil fuels, pricing trickery, and poor customer service. Aiming to disrupt the status quo with sustainable energy, Octopus entered the market in 2016 and they now supply energy to millions of homes in a number of countries. Octopus has made a name for itself in energy circles largely because of its “Kraken” technology platform, which it claims is able to reroute energy from renewable sources around a network far more efficiently than competitors.
Octopus Energy further differentiates itself through its aspiration to make everything as easy as possible for consumers, from the simplicity of their bills and the fact that customers are not locked into a contract so they can leave at any time to offering customer service over email and social media at times that suit customers. They aim to make the eco‐friendly choice the easy choice, so all of their tariffs use 100% green electricity, while not being more expensive than their competitors' non-green tariffs.
They are continually creating innovative new products. For example, Octopus Tracker where prices changes daily to guarantee you get the market rate; Agile where the price changes every half hour to enable you to benefit from cheap electricity when the sun shines, the wind blows, and the networks are under-utilised. One of the current challenges they face is that their products are more complex than their competitors, given they use 1000x more data than traditional energy companies. They're exploring ways to explain to customers exactly how their products work.
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46% female employees
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"The work that I am doing is often quite difficult. I am constantly challenged and problem solving, which I find rewarding as it means I am always..."
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2023
$800m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Jul 2022
$225m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $2.5bn
Company benefits
- Your development is important - we support and help with development including internal and external courses, learning, study support etc, all bespoke to you
- Flexi working environment
- Equity Options Scheme - you own your own part of the business, share options in the whole Octopus Energy Group so we all work together towards success
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Equity Option Scheme - Everyone owns part of what we’re building with shares
- Tech - We want to get the best out of our people and get that everyone is slightly different. Have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to get it
- Money Coach - You may want to think about financial planning. The company has an arrangement with Octopus Money Coach. They offer the opportunity to talk with a professional coach
- Wellbeing - Need some calm in your life? We have 'Octopus Headspace Licences' available. Twice a week we have 45 Minute live yoga class open to all Octopus staff!
- Parents - get access to tax free childcare and maternity and paternity pay. We’re always looking for new ways to support parents, during lockdown we created OctoKids TV to help keep your kids occupied and entertained (https://octopus.energy/blog/octopuskids/)
- Office culture - Our offices are stocked with fruit, breakfast, great coffee, and soft drinks (and ice lollies if you're lucky)! Weekly on a Friday we all get together (this happens virtually too) for company updates and drinks - we call it Family Dinner. We won best company to work for in 2019 and our CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our culture and how we empower our people. Check out what our people say at Glassdoor!
- Car Salary Sacrifice - Browse the wide selection of electric vehicles and get a sample quote under our workplace salary sacrifice scheme. If approved, the monthly leasing costs are taken directly from your gross salary each month meaning you're saving on paying some tax
Company values
- Autonomy
- Empathy
- Innovation
- Impact
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Greg Jackson
(CEO)Previously Adviser at Ashcombe Advisers for 9 years and Non-Executive Director at Zopa for 7 years.
James Eddison
(CTO)Previously CEO at Claripoint for 7 years and CTO at Tangent Labs also for 7 years.
Stuart Jackson
(CFO)Previously Director of "Foundation" Business Unit at Barclaycard for 2 years and Chief of Staff, Secured Lending SBU at Barclays also for 2 years.
People progressing
Joined as Marketing Assistant, being promoted to Marketing Executive after 6 months and again to Junior Product and Marketing Manager after 7 months. After 8 months they became a full Product and Marketing Manager.
Joined as Senior Talent Partner, being promoted to Talent Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Talent Acquisition after 8 months.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Energy Group
- Unconscious Bias workshops for interviewers and hiring managers
- Octopus Energy Equality Foundation
- Partnership with the Saracens High School - inspiring future generations - https://www.saracens.com/powering-futures-together-saracens-high-school-octopus-energy/
- Octopus Energy Internships - https://octopus.energy/blog/ada-lovelace-tech-internship/
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