Lead Data Engineer, OVO
£90-110k
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
Job no longer available
Powering human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£90-110k
1001+ employees
Company mission
We're on a mission to lower carbon emissions to zero by 2035, helping our customers reduce theirs at the same time - we call this Plan Zero.
Role
Who you are
- In-depth experience of designing, building, monitoring and managing large-scale data products, pipelines, tooling and platforms
- A track record as a data engineering lead, setting strategy and defining ways of working
- Experience working on streaming ETL solutions utilising streaming data processing tools (e.g. Kafka Streams, Kinesis, Spark or similar)
- Experience developing cloud-based solutions on GCP (preferably), AWS or Azure using Infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
- Excellent knowledge of at least one programming language e.g. Scala, Python, Typescript
- Knowledge of the best engineering practices and continuous delivery
- An understanding that building quality software is essential and you value automation and continuous delivery
- A love for building scalable, resilient solutions, and you enjoy influencing the team’s technology selection and architectural direction
- You will be comfortable working in an agile software development environment and have experience of CI/CD and deployment strategies
What the job involves
- Leading a team responsible for setting a strategy for data engineering across OVO and developing guidelines for how we work across our streaming and data warehouse technologies
- Building a data engineering community with engineers working in product teams, providing advice and guidance, tool recommendations etc
- Building and maintaining integration pipelines that power our automated journeys
- Transforming streaming data to meet target schemas
- Leading an agile engineering team where you will have the opportunity to influence technology selection
- Establishing good data engineering practices including using infrastructure as code; contributing to automated testing strategies; setting up monitoring and alerting tools; employing CI/CD best practices to deploy regularly to production
- Participating/leading efforts in the Open Source community, speaking at conferences, contributing to OVO’s tech blog, etc
- Engaging and encouraging engagement in the wider community through conference participation and contributing to our Tech Blog
- Mentoring junior members of the team - particularly interns and industry placements
- Working with key stakeholders to understand their data needs and help deliver solutions that provide them with excellent quality data that allows teams to realise their objectives
Salary benchmarks
Our take
On average, home energy represents 26% of our carbon footprint. Ovo Energy wants to bring this to zero by providing cheaper, greener and simpler energy to customers. They are analysing meter data to deliver easy, personalised actions, turning electric vehicles into power stations with clever chargers, and building energy-efficient heaters. For households, their offering is organised into four different energy plans. that include interest rewards on energy credit balance.
In 2020, OVO completed the acquisition of SSE Energy Services' retail arm for £500 million, meaning that the challenger brand now has around 4 million customers in the UK.
While helping Ovo members halve their carbon footprints, the company is also working towards becoming a net zero carbon business by 2035. The challenges ahead for the company include encouraging consumer behaviour change, shifting towards subscription models for home energy use.
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Inspiring mission
"The mission to provide Green energy to all customers, and to enable all our customers to start on a journey towards zero carbon living is written in..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2023
$268.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Feb 2019
$268.1m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $577.8m
Company benefits
- Annual Discretionary Bonus
- 9% Flex Pay - extra on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, use as your pension contribution, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits (tech schemes, EV leasing and more!).
- Flexible / Remote Working
- Personal Development Allowances and Free Access to OVOLearn - our very own training platform
- 34 Days Holiday (including bank holidays)
- Health Insurance
- £400 OVO Energy Discount
Company values
- Find a better way - We always look for a better way, whether that’s by delivering a better service, employing brilliant people or improving our products and processes
- Do what's right - Being open, honest and fair is one of the values which applies to everything we do. We take pride in talking to our customers and delivering exceptional work
- Build something great - Simple solutions aren’t quick or easy to find. They take time and tenacity. Our people work to find an answer that helps us ‘build something great’
Company HQ
Redcliffe, Bristol, UK
Leadership
David Buttress
(CEO)CEO of OVO, the UK’s 3rd largest energy supplier. Joined in May 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at OVO
Alessandro Storer (Head of Inclusion & Belonging )
- We run inclusive training and unconscious bias workshops for employees and interviewers
- We provide mental health support, through different networks, having mental health first aiders within the business and running initiatives like our "wellbeing Wednesdays" to promote this.
- We have dedicated Early Years programmes with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business.
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused I&D job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity.
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech at OVO by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within OVO and the wider community
- Within OVO we have multiple belonging networks and communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- Read more about our commitments to improving Diversity & Inclusion at OVO in our linked belonging report
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