Data & Research Engineer, TransitionZero
Heavy Industry & Commodity
£46.8-69k
Discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance
3+ days a week in office (City of London, London)
Financial analytics for carbon-zero
Job no longer available
Financial analytics for carbon-zero
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
£46.8-69k
Discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance
3+ days a week in office (City of London, London)
1-20 employees
Company mission
To combine data science and financial modelling to increase near real-time information flows and asset-level insights that inform business and policy decisions.
Role
Who you are
- You are a talented junior or mid-level data engineer with a passion for sustainability. You are a skilled developer with formal training or on-the-job experience writing back-end data services with Python
- You will apply your knowledge of Python development to build data retrieving and cleaning scripts, containerised jobs and workflows, webscrapers, extract-transform-load pipelines, and more.
- You will develop new skills as a developer, including skills in dev/cloud-ops, data architecture, and microservices development and deployment
- You will develop ownership over key components of the HI data ecosystem and will implement improvements as part of a small team. You have a passion for sustainability and the energy transition, and want to use your technical skills for social good. While we are a rapidly growing tech startup, we are also a non-profit, so a high level of adaptability and willingness to approach challenges with creativity and curiosity is essential
- Degree-level qualifications in software engineering OR a STEM degree with software development experience (3+ years)
- An interest in sustainability and a desire to work in a fast-paced and flexible start-up environment
- Experience with Python-based development including scripting, data retrieval, and data manipulation
- Experience with Github-based version control
Desirable
- Postgraduate education in software engineering OR postgraduate education in a STEM field with a strong Python-based computing background
- Postgraduate in a related disciplinary subject (energy systems, mining and materials, earth observation, environmental science)
What the job involves
- TransitionZero is now seeking a Python-based Data Engineer to support the development of our Future Energy Outlook (FEO) platform. FEO is a systems data and analysis platform to help accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy system
- The successful candidate will join the Heavy Industry and Commodity Data team, helping with the current grant deliverables and populating the FEO platform with technology specific data.
- The heavy industry (HI) sector covers steel, cement, aluminium, pulp & paper, and chemicals subsectors.
- The commodities sector includes materials relevant to the energy transition (e.g. lithium, copper, cobalt, and nickel).
- This role is not only data-centric but will also involve carrying out research to build domain expertise in aluminium, pulp & paper, and chemicals subsectors and engaging with relevant stakeholders
- Short-Term Goals (6 months after joining)
- Focus on aluminium, chemicals, pulp and paper subsectors
- Deploy and orchestrate heavy industry production and emissions data retrieval and estimation
- Automate data pipelines for HI sectors
- Develop and prototype heavy industry production research
- Develop and deploy human-in-the-loop data verification interfaces
- Engage with data and domain-specific stakeholders
- Contribute to organization-wide data infrastructure discussions, design and development
- Long-Term Goals (12 months after joining):
- Maintain heavy industry and commodities data ingestion packages and prepare periodic data releases
- Contribute to publications on HI sector analysis
- Deploy and orchestrate commodities production data retrieval and estimation
- Collaborate on the deployment of ML-enhanced alternative data scraping tools (via LLMs, satellite data)
- Responsibilities
- Writing Python code for retrieving, manipulating, and serving heavy industry and commodities data:
- Developing data ingestion scripts and tooling
- Containerising and orchestrating data ingestion jobs
- Preparing periodic data releases
- Contributing to API and Python client services to query and serve ingested data
- Helping design and deploy service architecture, containerisation, DevOps and CloudOps processes
- Participating in day-to-day work planning and execution including stand-up meetings, agile kanban boarding, code reviews, and feedback retrospectives
- Preparing technical documentation, tutorials, and READMEs
- Contributing to publications/blogs with analysis on HI sectors
- Building domain expertise in aluminium, chemicals and pulp and paper subsectors
- Engaging with relevant stakeholders and communicating sectoral analyses
- Continuous improvement and learning, both formal and informal
Application process
- 1. Apply via Otta
- 2. Get to know us - 30 minute Zoom call
- 3. Technical Assessment
- 4. Interview
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
TransitionZero is a data analytics and financial modelling company that provides consultation for companies trying to wind down their fossil fuel usage. Using AI software that aims to process and analyse real-time information flows, Transition Zero focuses on consulting and advising investors and decision-makers for large companies in finding the right financial strategies to reach Net Zero goals.
As an increasing number of large companies come under scrutiny for their carbon emissions, TransitionZero translates climate crisis realities into relatable language for large businesses. With transparency and time-sensitive reactivity at its core, TransitionZero is well-positioned to help companies understand and change the impact their emissions have on the world.
Founded by former employees at Carbon Tracker, founder Matt Gray and his team use similar strategies to their former company to present clear data on how businesses and governments can reach climate goals. With its analyses used in reporting by the BBC and Reuters in 2022, it’s no surprise that TransitionZero has received substantial funding from some of the leading NGO investors, including Bloomberg Philanthropic, Google.org, and the Quadrature Climate Foundation.
Insights
Company
Company benefits
- Discretionary annual bonus based on individual and company performance
- Enhanced gender-neutral parental leave (4 months full paid)
- Annual budget and dedicated leave time for relevant training courses
- Twice yearly offsites
- 25 days annual leave (excluding UK public holidays)
- 20 days annual allowance to work from anywhere in the world
- Allowance to set up your home office
- 3 additional days off for Christmas or other religious or cultural celebrations
- Hybrid working and core working hours model
- Private healthcare (following probation period)
Company values
- TransitionZero understands that diversity is an essential component of a successful team, whether that be diverse ways of thinking, personal or professional backgrounds and skills. TransitionZero aims to be the most talented not-for-profit in its vertical, spearheading innovative data solutions through its culture of inclusivity and adaptability.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Founders
Matt Gray
(CEO)Previously Managing Director at Carbon Tracker, Consultant Analyst at the International Energy Agency, Analyst and Head of European Carbon & Power at Jefferies & Company, Director of Strategy & Intelligence at IDEAcarbon.
Diversity & Inclusion at TransitionZero
Emily Anshaw (People & Operations Coordinator)
- At TransitionZero, we understand that diversity is an essential component of a successful team, whether that be diverse ways of thinking, personal or professional backgrounds and skills
- We aim to be the most talented not-for-profit in our vertical, spearheading innovative data solutions through our culture of inclusivity and adaptability
- As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate based on any protected attribute
- Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness to everyone. We will therefore consider all qualified applicants in the recruitment process as we welcome all the unique qualities and experiences that make you, you
- Our recruitment and selection process is conducted to remove unconscious gender bias
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