Lead Data Engineer
Application Deadline: 20 July 2025
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire
Reporting To: Seb Lear
Compensation: £70,000 - £80,000 / year
Description
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We have an exciting opportunity for a senior, hands-on Lead Data Engineer to join the Good Energy data team. Reporting to the Head of Data, you will take full ownership of designing, implementing, and maintaining complex data systems and solutions, ensuring they are scalable, efficient, and aligned with business objectives. You’ll drive data initiatives from conception to delivery, working independently to manage projects while collaborating closely with business analysts, BI analysts, testers, solution analysts, and fellow engineers. Your contributions will help ensure our data solutions meet business requirements and integrate seamlessly into the wider Good Energy data ecosystem.
In the role, you’ll set the standard for best practices in coding, data quality, and solution design, while mentoring and upskilling the team, especially in Databricks and CI/CD. You’ll drive the adoption of modern development workflows, ensuring reliable, scalable deployments. Your leadership will foster a culture of continuous improvement and play a key role in shaping our data infrastructure and growing the team’s capabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
* Design and implement data solutions: Lead the design, development, and optimisation of data pipelines, data models, and data architecture, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability across the organization.
* Collaboration with cross-functional teams: Work closely with data team members, technology teams, and business stakeholders to ensure data solutions align with Good Energy’s objectives and strategy.
* Driving best practices: Champion best practices for data engineering, including coding standards, data quality, data security, and documentation, ensuring consistency and maintainability across projects.
* Team member support: Provide technical support and guidance to the data team, creating a collaborative, learning-driven environment that encourages team development.
* End-to-end ownership: Manage the lifecycle of data projects and pipelines, from design and delivery through to monitoring and troubleshooting.
* Data governance and compliance: Ensure data governance, privacy, and security are prioritized in the design and delivery of data initiatives.
* Documentation and knowledge sharing: Maintain documentation for data engineering projects, leading knowledge-sharing efforts within the team to support development and enhance team capabilities.
What you'll need to succeed
Essentials:
* Be the key decision maker on the right technology stack for cloud data processing for the business
* Able to demonstrate an ongoing passion to stay up to date with the latest ETL technologies
* Lead the design and implementation of scalable, secure, and reliable data solutions on the Azure cloud platform.
* Architect data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows using Azure Data Factory & Azure Databricks.
* Advanced SQL knowledge and a strong understanding of data warehousing concepts and data modeling techniques (e.g., star/snowflake schemas).
* Experience leading or mentoring team of data engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and best practices.
* Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and best practices.
* Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with executives, product teams, and IT.
* Familiarity with Agile or Scrum methodologies.
Desirables:
* Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for data solutions using tools like Azure DevOps.
* Wider Azure knowledge including SQL Servers, Event Hubs, Log Analytics, and Key Vaults.
* Familiarity with areas such as:
* Data Governance
* Data Science
* Data Architecture
* AI / Machine Learning
* Certifications in cloud platforms (AWS Certified Data Analytics, Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate).
* Experience in the energy industry
Benefits you can rely on
Great allowances for hybrid working:
£500 work from home allowance - an annual allowance paid monthly alongside your salary to support with working from home costs.
£500 travel allowance - an annual allowance paid monthly alongside your salary to support with travelling to work costs.
£500 annual development allowance: To spend on your chosen development area, whether that’s in your current role, or future roles.
15% annual bonus: company-wide bonus scheme designed to reward collective teamwork and delivery of results across the whole business.
Holiday: 25 days annual leave, a day off for your birthday, additional days leave for long service, plus bank holidays. You’ll also have the option to buy additional leave, allowing for a better work-life balance.
Ethical Pension with Aviva: Good Energy offers an ethical pension plan provided by Aviva, with employer-matched contributions up to 7.5% of your base salary.
See more of our benefits here.
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