Staff Data Engineer (Tech Lead), Climate X
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3 days a week in office (Borough High Street, London)
Climate risk intelligence and analytics
Job no longer available
Climate risk intelligence and analytics
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Borough High Street, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
Climate X's mission is unlocking the power of climate risk data and analytics to build a better future for everyone and everything on our planet.
Role
Who you are
- This role is designed for individuals who have demonstrated technical leadership or mentoring capabilities and are ready to take on direct management responsibilities
- Strong understanding of a variety of data engineering tooling with ability to determine and implement an appropriate stack
- Strong experience working with our existing technologies (Python, AWS, Bash, Postgres)
- Excellent communication skills with ability to work cross-functionally with Technology, Science and Product
- Strong hands-on data engineering experience, including data modelling, data warehousing, building ETL pipelines, and designing efficient database schemas
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex data-related issues
Desirable
- Expertise in big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, or distributed computing frameworks
- Knowledge of data governance, data quality, and data security best practices
- Experience working with both relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra)
- Proficiency in using data visualization tools and libraries (e.g., Tableau, Matplotlib, Seaborn)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Data Engineer at Climate X, you will play a dual role, balancing hands-on technical work with leadership responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable, high-performance data processing pipelines
- Develop and maintain our cloud-based data infrastructure on AWS
- Architect efficient database schemas for storing and querying large volumes of geospatial and time-series data
- Lead the integration of our core products, Spectra and Carta, to enhance our overall data capabilities and product offerings
- Manage a team of 2-3 data engineers, guiding their professional development and daily activities
- Foster a culture of collaboration and innovation within the team, providing technical oversight and acting as a mentor
- Ensure the team's projects align with broader business goals and maintain high standards of quality and efficiency
Application process
- 1. Talent Screening Call
- 2. Skillset interview with Director (video/office)
- 3. Culture Add interview with team (video/office)
- 4. Technical Assessment (live coding)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Climate Change is one of the most pressing global issues and the UK has already set the way for clean and green growth and established a National Adaptation Programme. Therefore, there has been a rise in Climate-tech companies developed in the UK to address these issues. In comparison to ESG-assessment platforms or climate fintechs focused on cleaner investment and climate mitigation, Climate X aims to change the way the world manages assets, property and infrastructure through a new vertical of climate adaptation software. They are modelling climate effects that are inevitable due to past and current greenhouse gas emissions.
Climate X works through an API which simulates multiple climate projections and then estimates how these climate projections would damage the assets. The platform then quantifies this damage and models the impacts' valuations and cashflows. Its models will update automatically and self-calibrate in response to the latest available scientific data and will be built on a cloud-based architecture for seamless access, secure data exchange and integration.
The future of Climate X is promising, as it is working with the UK’s leading climate scientists, AI specialists, financial services professionals and the London School of Economics. Adding to its strong position, a Series A of $18M awarded in 2024 will be used to grow its market share internationally. If successful, Climate X will save customers millions of pounds, helping individuals and organizations to be more resilient to climate change, meet incoming regulatory requirements and make smarter investment decisions.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2024
$17.8m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$5.2m
SEED
Total funding: $24.4m
Company benefits
- Share Options
- 6 monthly appraisals and 12 monthly pay reviews
- Annual Christmas party and Summer event
- Pension
- Pawternity
- 36.5 days annually (including bank holidays)
- Core hours 10am-4pm and flexibility case by case
- Working from abroad (3 weeks per year after 1 year tenure)
- Oliva Mental Health and Wellbeing access (therapy & coaching)
- Monthly training & conference budget to help you upskill and develop your career (£1,000 per year)
- A fully stocked supply of snacks, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office
- Optional quarterly socials, dinners, and fun nights out
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Company values
- Customer Empathy
- Team & Belonging
- Purposeful Impact
- Deep Diversity
- Empowered Ownership
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Kamil Kluza
(COO & Co-Founder)Kamil leverages over a decade of expertise in climate risk analytics, regulatory compliance, and financial strategy to empower organisations to tackle climate impacts with data insights.
Lukman Ahmed
(CEO & Co-Founder)Over nine years at HSBC, Lukky led risk and transformation initiatives worldwide. As CEO, he's brought 4 years of impact-driven leadership, building climate resilience for global financial services.
People progressing
Aatish joined as a Data Engineer in 2021 and has since become the Director of Engineering, leading and expanding the team with 15 new hires, including new DevOps and Data Engineering functions.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Climate X
Lukky Ahmed (CEO and Co-founder)
- Diversity matters: we’re feeling very strongly about diversity with founders and existing team members coming from a variety of backgrounds. We’re not building just a team but a place of innovation where brains and fun coexist to address the biggest challenge our society is facing now.
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