Software Engineer - Data
Permanent - Full Time £64,000 - £78,000 / yearJob Overview
Your Mission
Field is an Energy Storage Provider that operates across the value chain from project development through to asset management and trading. At the heart of Field’s operations and trading sits GAIA, our in-house automated energy trading platform which makes hundreds of decisions a day based on market signals, asset telemetry and forecasting model outputs. GAIA’s success has led to its outputs being more deeply integrated into the wider business along with the tools and technologies that have driven its success.
This is where you come in. The successful candidate will build and improve the data platform that powers GAIA as well as improve the data capabilities in the wider business.
Key Responsibilities
This is a broad and hands-on role with the chance to improve how Field uses data within and beyond the realms of GAIA’s ecosystem
- building and operating the production data pipelines and streaming integrations that ingest a wide range from market data to asset telemetry
- partnering with our trading team to deliver the required data and capabilities for in-house forecasting model development
- guiding and partnering with stakeholders in the wider business to build out integrations and analytical views over their data
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
The skills you’ll need
- Comfortable writing production-grade Python and SQL
- Hands-on data pipeline experience
- Comfortable working in the cloud with infrastructure as code
- Familiarity with modern data tooling across warehousing, transformation and business intelligence
- Collaboration skills to work with a wide range of stakeholders e.g. engineers, business stakeholders and data scientists
- Data product mindset
- Nice-to-have: Experience working with streaming or near-real-time pipelines
- Nice-to-have: Experience using LLMs to help non-technical users self-serve analytics