Lead Data Engineer, OVO

• 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

• 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

• 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

Total funding: $577.8m

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.