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This is a pivotal role in a growing energy business with serious ambitions around data. You’ll shape how data is collected, governed, and used to drive decisions — across operations, risk, and customer delivery. It’s hands-on, strategic, and full of opportunity to lead from the front.


What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Designing and developing robust data pipelines to centralise and clean data from multiple sources
  • Building conceptual and physical data models to support reporting and analysis
  • Championing data governance and implementing controls to ensure quality and compliance
  • Developing automated ETL solutions using Microsoft Azure tools
  • Leading best practice in engineering standards, code quality, and peer review
  • Supporting teams through training sessions and knowledge sharing


Main Skills Needed:

  • Proven experience in data engineering, ideally 5+ years
  • Advanced SQL skills and strong knowledge of Azure (Data Lake, Synapse, SQL Server)
  • Comfortable with Python, C#, and working with APIs
  • Familiar with cloud data platforms (Azure essential; AWS useful)
  • Confident designing data architecture and building models from scratch
  • Solid understanding of database management and governance principles
  • Skilled in Excel, including VBA for analysis and automation
  • Strong problem-solver, commercially aware, and naturally collaborative


What’s in It for You:

  • Big scope: real influence over how data is used in a modernising business
  • Supportive team culture, with a flat structure and lots of autonomy
  • Hybrid working and flexible hours
  • Career development through both hands-on leadership and formal L&D
  • A business that values curiosity, collaboration, and getting stuck in


Let’s talk about what your next move could look like.

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