<div class="section-wrapper page-full-width"><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">The Energy Markets team at Octopus Energy is responsible for making sure that we always have the electricity and gas we need to support our customer demand whilst also supporting the grid to enable the Net Zero transition.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">To achieve this mission across all Octopus international regions, we need to forecast the demand of each of our customers and the production of our generation assets. The Forecasting team owns the underlying models and the forecasting data platform that feeds into business operations across the international group.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 11pt">We are looking for a Data Scientist to join the team - ideally someone who is skilled at data analysis, has at least some experience or familiarity with machine learning models and can grasp the commercial concepts and needs of the wider business to really add value.</span></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you will be doing:</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Building, improving and maintaining forecasting models. </li><li>Development on forecasting framework and tools.</li><li>Maintaining and automating forecasting processes, whilst building in checks and alerting.</li><li>Designing and building forecasting dashboards/ reports that cover operational processes and reporting requirements;</li><li>Standardising and rolling out forecasting models across the international markets.</li><li>Performing ad-hoc analysis.</li><li>Collaborating with Risk, Trading, Renewables, Flexibility teams and building pipelines into the wider business.</li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Who we are looking for: </h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Experience with Python (pandas) and SQL is essential;</li><li>Able to quickly understand commercial concepts quickly and effectively;</li><li>Team player excited at the idea of ownership across lots of different projects and tools;</li><li>Passion for driving towards Net Zero;</li><li>Drives knowledge sharing and documentation for a more effective platform;</li><li>Open to travelling to Octopus international offices;</li><li>Experience with Machine Learning, dbt, Airflow and Spark is beneficial.</li><li>Experience in the energy industry </li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Why else you'll love it here:</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li><b>Wondering what the salary for this role is? </b>Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!</li><li>Octopus Energy is a <b>unique culture</b>. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won <a class="postings-link" href="https://www.b.co.uk/companies/octopus-energy">best company to work for</a> in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted <a class="postings-link" href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-UK-LST_KQ0,22.htm">50 best places to work in 2022</a> and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded<a class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/"> a podcast about our culture</a> and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the<a class="postings-link" href="https://www.businessleader.co.uk/the-top-25-uk-companies-for-senior-leadership-revealed-by-glassdoor/"> top 10 companies for senior leadership</a></li><li>Visit our UK perks hub - <a class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/octopus-employee-benefits/">Octopus Employee Benefits</a></li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered last-section-apply" data-qa="btn-apply-bottom"><a class="postings-btn template-btn-submit hex-color" data-qa="show-page-apply" href="https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/7b9d759e-0caf-4b1a-9a54-3c4c87ef38c3/apply"></a></div></div>

Octopus Energy

<div class="section-wrapper page-full-width"><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"><div><span style="font-size: 18px">Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe! </span></div><div><br></div><div><a class="postings-link" style="font-size: 18px" href="https://kraken.tech/">Kraken</a><span style="font-size: 18px"> powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px">We’re a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation, creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences, our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px">It’s a really exciting time in energy. Help us make a real impact on shaping a better, more sustainable future.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b><span style="font-size: 18px;">Kraken Customer </span></b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">What we do: build the most AI-driven, innovative, forward-thinking platform for energy management. From optimizing resources to delivering cost-effective, exceptional customer experiences through advanced Customer Information Systems (CIS), billing, meter data management, CRM, and AI-driven communications, Kraken is powering the next wave of innovation in the energy industry. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Why we do it: future energy will not look like energy as we know it today. We need to not just think about our future, but build for it. Now. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">We are very excited to be building a small and efficient TechOps team at Octopus. We are looking for an ambitious, knowledgeable and experienced TechOps Architect with a passion for tackling challenges, driving innovation and someone who, quite frankly, can help us with our big growing pains.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">You will be a key partner in defining what TechOps is at Octopus. We will be shaping this team to provide a world class support service to our employees, building our way out of problems with engineering firepower and undertaking transformational organisational change.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 18px;">What is TechOps?</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">A more modern, more lean version of a traditional enterprise IT team. We cover everything from what most people would call “1st line support” all the way up to high-level strategic planning, and everything in between.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">We tackle big problems and the breadth of work is huge. Dealing with ambiguity is a key part of working in TechOps, and every day will be a new and exciting one, working on varying challenges across the company.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">We have a cloud-first approach to everything we do. This allows us to scale quickly and focus on things where we can add the most value. No on-prem AD here!</span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 18px;">About the role</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">As a TechOps Architect, you will be responsible for high-level strategic and architectural technical decisions around the business. We also strongly believe that no matter what role you have within TechOps, it’s still important to keep your ear to the ground and see, first hand, the problems our users are facing, and the impact that decisions you make have on everyone at Octopus. This means you’ll spend some of your time helping out with day-to-day “1st, 2nd and 3rd line” support.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Where our TechOps Generalists may be a jack of all trades, master of none, as an Architect, you’ll be a master of all. You’ll have a wide breadth of knowledge and experience across all areas of IT, but also an immensely deep understanding of those areas too. You will have interest and/or experience in related areas like software engineering, security, platform architecture, UI/UX design etc</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Roles that you might currently be in: 3rd line support, DevOps Engineer, Systems architect, Systems designer, Systems engineer, Network Architect, Workplace technology, Solutions specialist, Solutions designer, Solutions architect, Solutions architect, Enterprise Architect.</span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you'll do...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Define what good looks like for a small and lean TechOps team.</li><li>Tackle some of the toughest technical issues as we scale to tens of thousands of people.</li><li>Make wide-scale strategic technical decisions across the whole Octopus Energy Group, globally.</li><li>Design, build and continually improve processes, automations and systems that will improve user experience, remove inefficiencies, allow us to scale quickly and keep our team small.</li><li>Mentor the wider TechOps team, providing support and guidance for any technical project they may be working on. (This role will not involve directly managing people).</li><li>Support the rest of the team in providing delightful day-to-day technical support to all areas of the business, to ensure our incredible employees are able to do their job as efficiently as possible. Their problems are our problems.</li><li>Collaborate closely with our Security team to ensure we strike the right balance between security, productivity and user experience.</li><li>Managing supplier relationships and the procurement process for SaaS and hardware.</li><li>Lead and manage complex technical projects with multiple stakeholders from around the business. Examples of some TechOps projects include…</li><li>Rollout of, and migration to, a new identity provider</li><li>macOS and Windows MDM migration</li><li>Rollout of a new device trust and posture compliance solution</li><li>The replacement of insecure factors like SMS with phishing-resistant factors</li><li>Office fit-outs, including tech like network, AV, access control etc</li><li>SaaS migrations for acquisitions e.g. Microsoft 365 to Google Workspace</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you'll need...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Experience leading on a range of technical projects across various technologies and platforms.</li><li>Experience with scripting, using APIs and automating mundane, error-prone repetitive tasks.</li><li>To be comfortable with a huge amount of ambiguity and spinning a lot of plates all at the same time.</li><li>Experience working with multiple teams and managing multiple stakeholders.</li><li>Experience supporting, managing and deploying applications to macOS, Windows, iOS and Android devices.</li><li>Experience with Identity &amp; Access Management systems like Okta or Microsoft Entra.</li><li>Experience administering and troubleshooting Single Sign-On (SSO) technologies such as OAuth, OIDC and SAML.</li><li>Understanding of identity provisioning technologies such as SCIM.</li><li>Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical, senior stakeholders.</li><li>A conscientious approach to everything you do and a passion for doing the right thing rather than the easy thing.</li><div><br></div><div>Should have:</div><li>You have strong opinions on best practice and you challenge traditional norms, advocating for more modern, novel approaches.</li><li>Experience with email gateway administration and email routing.</li><li>Understanding of email security protocols and standards e.g. SPF, DKIM, DMARC etc.</li><li>Experience using git and GitHub for code changes and CI/CD.</li><li>Experience mentoring less experienced team members.</li><div><br></div><div>Nice to have:</div><li>Experience building macOS apps with Swift</li><li>Experience with Munki and AutoPkg for macOS software deployment</li><li>Experience with Chocolatey and PowerShell for Windows software deployment</li><li>A foundational understanding of programming and software engineering.</li><li>Familiarity with frontend and backend engineering, including languages such as TypeScript and Python, and frameworks such as React, Remix and Django.</li><li>Familiarity with our security tooling - CrowdStrike EDR, Kolide, osquery, Zscaler</li><div><br></div><div><b>Don’t think you check off all of the above? </b>We love hiring passionate people with a drive to learn so get in touch and let us know which areas you don’t currently have confidence and/or experience with, we’d love to hear from you! </div><div><br></div><div>This role can be fully remote on or close to the UK timezone. We also have offices in the following cities around the UK and the EU where we’d encourage you to work from if convenient: </div><li>UK - Brighton, Manchester, Leicester, Coventry or London</li><li>EU - Valencia, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Munich or Milan </li><div><br></div><div>We're very excited to be growing our small team. We're looking for skills and experience to help shape and define the future of not only our team, but the wider business at a global scale. If you're reading this and grinning, please apply! There are huge challenges to tackle, and we need amazing people who are keen to get stuck in.</div><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Why else you'll love it here</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li><b>Wondering what the salary for this role is? </b>Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!</li><li>Octopus Energy Group is a <b>unique culture</b>. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.b.co.uk/companies/octopus-energy">best company to work for</a> in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-UK-LST_KQ0,22.htm">50 best places to work in 2022</a> and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/"> a podcast about our culture</a> and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.businessleader.co.uk/the-top-25-uk-companies-for-senior-leadership-revealed-by-glassdoor/"> top 10 companies for senior leadership</a> and most recently <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/best-places-to-work-2023/">The Sunday Times, Best Places To Work 2023 </a></li><li>Visit our UK perks hub - <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/octopus-employee-benefits/">Octopus Employee Benefits</a></li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="closing-description"><div>If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you.</div><div><br></div><div><i>Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. Need any specific accommodations? Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!</i></div><div><br></div><div><i>Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.</i></div><div><br></div><div><b>If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. </b></div><div><br></div><div><i>Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. <b>Need any specific accommodations? </b>Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!</i></div><div><br></div><div><i>Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.</i></div></div><div class="section page-centered last-section-apply" data-qa="btn-apply-bottom"><a class="postings-btn template-btn-submit hex-color" data-qa="show-page-apply" href="https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/1a4cded1-8b1a-4dd3-9324-5bca370ffe58/apply"></a></div></div>

<div class="section-wrapper page-full-width"><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"><div><span style="font-size: 18px">Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe! </span></div><div><br></div><div><a class="postings-link" style="font-size: 18px" href="https://kraken.tech/">Kraken</a><span style="font-size: 18px"> powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px">We’re a technology company focused on creating a smart, sustainable energy system. From optimising renewable generation, creating a more intelligent grid and enabling utilities to provide excellent customer experiences, our operating system for energy is transforming the industry around the world in a way that benefits everyone.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px">It’s a really exciting time in energy. Help us make a real impact on shaping a better, more sustainable future.</span></div><div><br></div><div><b><span style="font-size: 18px;">Kraken Customer </span></b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">What we do: build the most AI-driven, innovative, forward-thinking platform for energy management. From optimizing resources to delivering cost-effective, exceptional customer experiences through advanced Customer Information Systems (CIS), billing, meter data management, CRM, and AI-driven communications, Kraken is powering the next wave of innovation in the energy industry. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Why we do it: future energy will not look like energy as we know it today. We need to not just think about our future, but build for it. Now. </span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 18px;">Our team</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">All technology is written and maintained by a multi-discipline engineering team of around 800 people globally. Our engineers work in ‘super teams’ which are focused on key areas of our platform as well as other innovative products. This also includes server-side, client-side and mobile engineers working closely with UX experts, copywriters and designers. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Teams are empowered to choose a way of working that works for them, often opting for a Kanban-like approach. Notion and Asana are then used to specify and manage work; Github, CircleCI and Terraform Enterprise as part of an immutable-infrastructure, continuous delivery pipeline; and Datadog, Sentry and Cloudwatch to measure performance and monitor production. </span></div><div><br></div><div><a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://kraken.tech/broadband-utilities"><b><span style="font-size: 18px;">Kraken Utilities</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 18px;"> team</span></b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">We’re now charging Kraken to power utilities beyond energy (think water, broadband,..) and have created a new product Kraken Utilities. We have built this team from scratch over the last 2 years and now have 100 great people focussed on this product. We're now looking to continue scaling this team and bring on talented software engineers to focus on helping us build and scale our telco product for new clients. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">You will work on complex challenges in a fast paced and highly autonomous work environment, and be a key part of helping cement the long term culture of the team. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Together with the rest of the team, you will bring the same revolutionary customer experience, operational excellence and speed of innovation that Kraken is powering across energy retailers to other sectors.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Some of our coding conventions are </span><a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://github.com/octoenergy/conventions"><span style="font-size: 18px;">open-source</span></a><span style="font-size: 18px;">. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Kraken is a great place to learn, work with some talented engineers and level-up your skills.  </span></div><div><br></div><div><b style="font-size: 18px;">Our technology</b></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">On the server-side, we mainly use Python. Most of our websites are powered by Django, Django-REST-framework and GraphQL (Graphene).  </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">We use AWS heavily  as part of a continuous deployment pipeline. See, for example, Django, ELB health checks and continuous delivery. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Client-side, we use React, htmx and SASS; our mobile apps are built using native code or React Native.</span></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you'll do</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>We have lots of difficult design challenges to solve. The UK utilities market is complicated, outdated and process-heavy - there's an awful lot of domain modelling that we need to get right. Strong attention to detail is essential.</li><li>Help build and scale the Kraken utilities team by embedding an engineering, problem solving, and customer-first culture. </li><li>Architect &amp; develop new components of the Kraken platform to serve other utilities. </li><li>We have challenging technical problems to solve; like processing tens of millions of meter readings a day. We need the right technology in place to handle this smoothly as well as feeding data into a machine learning pipeline that models and predicts consumption. Or thinking about how we adapt Kraken to improve other utilities like water and broadband.</li><li>There's a great opportunity for disruption in the UK water and broadband markets. The landscape is changing as we move to more dis-aggregated forms of generation, with less predictability, more dynamism and smarter technology.</li><li>You'll be working for a company that’s fighting climate change. Our generation arm is the largest investor in solar generation in the UK, and is funding wind and anaerobic digestion. As a supplier, we're helping people to use greener technology and renewable energy, all helping move the UK towards a lower carbon future.</li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you'll need</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>We're looking for someone with a general interest in technology and problem-solving; someone diligent and thoughtful. It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order):</li><li>Python</li><li>Django (or equiv. web framework)</li><li>Domain modelling</li><li>HTTP and REST APIs</li><li>Writing robust and fault-tolerant software</li><li>Celery and async processing</li><li>Postgres</li><div>Plus experience in the following would be a bonus:</div><li>AWS</li><li>Terraform, Packer, Consul</li><li>React and Redux</li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Why else you'll love it here</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li><b>Wondering what the salary for this role is? </b>Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!</li><li>Octopus Energy is a <b>unique culture</b>. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We won <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.b.co.uk/companies/octopus-energy">best company to work for</a> in 2022, on Glassdoor we we're voted <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-UK-LST_KQ0,22.htm">50 best places to work in 2022</a> and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/"> a podcast about our culture</a> and how we empower our people </li><li>Visit our perks hub - <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/octopus-employee-benefits/">Octopus Employee Benefits</a></li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="closing-description"><div>This team will require candidates to work on a hybrid remote basis, coming into our office in Oxford Circus 2 days a week. You do also need to have right to work in the UK. </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">We're very excited to be growing our team. We're looking for skills and experience to help shape and define the future of not only our team, but the wider business at a global scale. If you're reading this and grinning, please apply! There are huge challenges to tackle, and we need amazing people who are keen to get stuck in.</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. </b></div><div><br></div><div><i>Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. <b>Need any specific accommodations? </b>Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!</i></div><div><br></div><div><i>Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.</i></div></div><div class="section page-centered last-section-apply" data-qa="btn-apply-bottom"><a class="postings-btn template-btn-submit hex-color" data-qa="show-page-apply" href="https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/70ae99bf-3f5d-41c4-9129-26c42f5c5c63/apply"></a></div></div>

<div class="section-wrapper page-full-width"><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">At Octopus, we’ve built the technology to serve millions of energy customers and handle the billions of pounds worth of customer and third-party transactions that this entails. We’re looking for someone to work between our data team and the finance and accounting team to build great data and automation tools and to make our processes even more efficient. You’ll have a passion for working with data to bring insight and efficiency to the teams around them. You’ll need to be great at listening, understanding challenges and formulating pragmatic solutions. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">You’ll work as part of the wider data team whilst closely supporting the Group Financial Controller. You’ll contribute to our modern Cloud-based data platform (AWS, Databricks, dbt, Airflow, Jupyter) and will benefit from working alongside world class data scientists, analysts and engineers. You’ll work closely with the finance and accounting teams to build new integrations, pipelines, dashboards, apps and automation tools. You’ll build and automate integrations with third party systems across the whole set of Octopus businesses from retail energy to electric vehicles.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">This is a fantastic opportunity to work on projects that span 30+ entities across 8 geographies and develop financial tools and integrations for our market leading Kraken energy platform.  </span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you'll do...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Integrate third party data tools, APIs and databases (Aqilla, Docworks, CRMs) into automation workflows</li><li>Build and run new data pipelines and automated processes in Airflow and Python</li><li>Build new dbt SQL data models for final tables for dashboards and apps</li><li>Help with one off analyses and reconciliations using SQL, Python and Jupyter notebooks </li><li>Build prototype automation Jupyter notebooks and Streamlit apps for accounts payable team</li><li>Provide data support for financial audits and regulatory reporting</li><li>Build and maintain Tableau dashboards for the finance and tech ops teams</li><li>Work closely with a broad range of teams including Finance, Strategy and Kraken Technology</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you'll need...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>First and foremost, we want our data engineers to be great software engineers with a passion for writing high quality code! </li><div><br></div><div>It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order): </div><li>Python</li><li>Relational databases (SQL)</li><li>APIs and third party data integrations</li><li>Experience modelling data for analytics - ideally experience using dbt as a modelling tool</li><li>Experience in assuring data quality</li><li>Experience working in a cloud environment (ideally AWS)</li><li>Drive to work autonomously and proactively to scope problems and solve and deliver pragmatic solutions</li><li>Happiness and versatility to work across the whole data lifecycle, from integration and discovery to data apps and interfaces</li><li>Passion for building robust and usable tools that make the teams they work for more efficient and effective.</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Our data platform stack...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Python as our main programming language</li><li>Kubernetes for data services and task orchestration</li><li>Airflow purely for job scheduling and tracking</li><li>Circle CI for continuous deployment</li><li>Parquet and Delta file formats on S3 for data lake storage</li><li>Spark for data processing</li><li>dbt for data modelling</li><li>Presto and SparkSQL for analytics</li><li>Streamlit for data applications</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Why else you'll love it here...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li><b>Wondering what the salary for this role is? </b>Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!</li><li>Octopus Energy Group is a <b>unique culture</b>. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We won <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.b.co.uk/companies/octopus-energy">best company to work for</a> in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-UK-LST_KQ0,22.htm">50 best places to work in 2022</a> and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/"> a podcast about our culture</a> and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.businessleader.co.uk/the-top-25-uk-companies-for-senior-leadership-revealed-by-glassdoor/"> top 10 companies for senior leadership</a> and most recently <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/best-places-to-work-2023/">The Sunday Times, Best Places To Work 2023 </a>and again in <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.thetimes.com/static/best-places-to-work-2024-verybig/">2024</a></li><li>We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! Visit our UK perks hub - <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/octopus-employee-benefits/">Octopus Employee Benefits</a></li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="closing-description"><div><b>If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. </b></div><div><br></div><div><i>Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. </i><b><i>Need any specific accommodations? </i></b><i>Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!</i></div><div><br></div><div><i>Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.</i></div></div><div class="section page-centered last-section-apply" data-qa="btn-apply-bottom"><a class="postings-btn template-btn-submit hex-color" data-qa="show-page-apply" href="https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/f2ddf621-83ca-4878-ac58-ecc0b71a0bea/apply"></a></div></div>

<div class="section-wrapper page-full-width"><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">At Octopus, we’ve built the technology to serve millions of energy customers and handle the billions of pounds worth of customer and third-party transactions that this entails. We’re looking for someone to work between our data team and the finance and accounting team to build great data and automation tools and to make our processes even more efficient. You’ll have a passion for working with data to bring insight and efficiency to the teams around them. You’ll need to be great at listening, understanding challenges and formulating pragmatic solutions. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">You’ll work as part of the wider data team whilst closely supporting the Group Financial Controller. You’ll contribute to our modern Cloud-based data platform (AWS, Databricks, dbt, Airflow, Jupyter) and will benefit from working alongside world class data scientists, analysts and engineers. You’ll work closely with the finance and accounting teams to build new integrations, pipelines, dashboards, apps and automation tools. You’ll build and automate integrations with third party systems across the whole set of Octopus businesses from retail energy to electric vehicles.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">This is a fantastic opportunity to work on projects that span 30+ entities across 8 geographies and develop financial tools and integrations for our market leading Kraken energy platform.  </span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you'll do...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Integrate third party data tools, APIs and databases (Aqilla, Docworks, CRMs) into automation workflows</li><li>Build and run new data pipelines and automated processes in Airflow and Python</li><li>Build new dbt SQL data models for final tables for dashboards and apps</li><li>Help with one off analyses and reconciliations using SQL, Python and Jupyter notebooks </li><li>Build prototype automation Jupyter notebooks and Streamlit apps for accounts payable team</li><li>Provide data support for financial audits and regulatory reporting</li><li>Build and maintain Tableau dashboards for the finance and tech ops teams</li><li>Work closely with a broad range of teams including Finance, Strategy and Kraken Technology</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you'll need...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>First and foremost, we want our data engineers to be great software engineers with a passion for writing high quality code! </li><div><br></div><div>It would be helpful to have experience/expertise in the following (in rough priority order): </div><li>Python</li><li>Relational databases (SQL)</li><li>APIs and third party data integrations</li><li>Experience modelling data for analytics - ideally experience using dbt as a modelling tool</li><li>Experience in assuring data quality</li><li>Experience working in a cloud environment (ideally AWS)</li><li>Drive to work autonomously and proactively to scope problems and solve and deliver pragmatic solutions</li><li>Happiness and versatility to work across the whole data lifecycle, from integration and discovery to data apps and interfaces</li><li>Passion for building robust and usable tools that make the teams they work for more efficient and effective.</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Our data platform stack...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Python as our main programming language</li><li>Kubernetes for data services and task orchestration</li><li>Airflow purely for job scheduling and tracking</li><li>Circle CI for continuous deployment</li><li>Parquet and Delta file formats on S3 for data lake storage</li><li>Spark for data processing</li><li>dbt for data modelling</li><li>Presto and SparkSQL for analytics</li><li>Streamlit for data applications</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Why else you'll love it here</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li><b>Wondering what the salary for this role is? </b>Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!</li><li>Octopus Energy Group is a <b>unique culture</b>. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We won <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.b.co.uk/companies/octopus-energy">best company to work for</a> in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-UK-LST_KQ0,22.htm">50 best places to work in 2022</a> and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/"> a podcast about our culture</a> and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.businessleader.co.uk/the-top-25-uk-companies-for-senior-leadership-revealed-by-glassdoor/"> top 10 companies for senior leadership</a> and most recently <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/best-places-to-work-2023/">The Sunday Times, Best Places To Work 2023 </a>and again in <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.thetimes.com/static/best-places-to-work-2024-verybig/">2024</a></li><li>We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! Visit our UK perks hub - <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/octopus-employee-benefits/">Octopus Employee Benefits</a></li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="closing-description"><div><b>If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. </b></div><div><br></div><div><i>Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. </i><b><i>Need any specific accommodations? </i></b><i>Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!</i></div><div><br></div><div><i>Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.</i></div></div><div class="section page-centered last-section-apply" data-qa="btn-apply-bottom"><a class="postings-btn template-btn-submit hex-color" data-qa="show-page-apply" href="https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/75fac432-d4cf-4b48-9b9a-352f15f15bc4/apply"></a></div></div>

<div class="section-wrapper page-full-width"><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="job-description"><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">At Octopus, we’ve led the way in innovating new ways to price energy to give customers more control over their energy costs, stamp out the loyalty penalty seen in much of the industry and engage customers to use energy when it is greenest and cheapest. We’re looking for a smart, passionate analyst to join the pricing and commercial function within our data team to help us manage and develop our energy products, and understand customer choices.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Our team takes a technology- and data-driven approach to managing our complex pricing portfolio and sales channels. We apply modern open data and analytics tools like Python, Pandas and Jupyter Notebooks to build pricing tools and customer behaviour models. We’re passionate about automating workloads and processes so we can concentrate on the interesting problems. We’re looking for someone who is equally motivated by using technology to solve problems.</span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;">This is a fantastic opportunity to work on problems that genuinely move us closer to Net Zero with a company that is passionate about building great technology and products that change the way customers use energy.</span></div><div><br></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you'll do...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>Produce regular reports and deliver insight into sales and losses, across our different sales channels</li><li>Perform competitor and market analysis</li><li>Analyse customer switching behaviour and influences (internal e.g. tariff choice or contract renewals; and external e.g. competitor pricing or house moves)</li><li>Support operational reporting to monitor and improve growth across our acquisition channels (e.g. commissions reporting, sales incentive performance)</li><li>Execute and optimise tariff reprices according to our pricing principles</li><li>Build tools and pricing dashboards to visualise product offerings and report margins</li><li>Work closely with a broad range of teams including Cost, Procurement, Strategy, Sales and Marketing teams</li><li>Provide regulatory and policy support on switching and pricing</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>What you'll need...</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li>We don’t need prior energy supplier experience (we can teach that), although experience working in energy retail is a bonus. </li><li>Ideally 2 years of professional experience</li><li>To be passionate about working in energy and contributing to the energy transition</li><li>To be curious and self-driven - when faced with a new problem is capable of seeking out an answer without lots of help and support</li><li>To be highly data literate and numerate -  can make sense of lots of data and shape it into a coherent story</li><li>To have great attention to detail</li><li>To communicate complex ideas clearly</li><div><br></div><div><b>You will also need to have experience with some of the below technologies:</b></div><li>A scripting language (ideally Python with pandas) </li><li>Wrangling data outside of a spreadsheet environment</li><li>Writing performant queries in SQL / dbt</li><li>Building reports and dashboards in a BI tool (ideally Tableau or Streamlit)</li><li>To be passionate about building robust and useable tools</li><div><br></div></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered"><div><h3>Why else you'll love it here</h3><ul class="posting-requirements plain-list"><ul><li><b>Wondering what the salary for this role is? </b>Just ask us! On a call with one of our recruiters it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!</li><li>Octopus Energy Group is a <b>unique culture</b>. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We won <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.b.co.uk/companies/octopus-energy">best company to work for</a> in 2022, on Glassdoor we were voted <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Award/Best-Places-to-Work-UK-LST_KQ0,22.htm">50 best places to work in 2022</a> and our Group CEO, Greg has recorded<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/blog/podcast/"> a podcast about our culture</a> and how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the<a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.businessleader.co.uk/the-top-25-uk-companies-for-senior-leadership-revealed-by-glassdoor/"> top 10 companies for senior leadership</a> and most recently <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/static/best-places-to-work-2023/">The Sunday Times, Best Places To Work 2023 </a>and again in <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://www.thetimes.com/static/best-places-to-work-2024-verybig/">2024</a></li><li>We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! Visit our UK perks hub - <a rel="noopener noreferrer" class="postings-link" href="https://octopus.energy/octopus-employee-benefits/">Octopus Employee Benefits</a></li></ul></ul></div></div><div class="section page-centered" data-qa="closing-description"><div><b>If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you. </b></div><div><br></div><div><i>Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential. </i><b><i>Need any specific accommodations? </i></b><i>Whether you require specific accommodations or have a unique preference, let us know, and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!</i></div><div><br></div><div><i>Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we hire. Across Octopus, we're looking for genuinely decent people who are honest and empathetic. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. Our commitment is to provide equal opportunities, an inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.</i></div></div><div class="section page-centered last-section-apply" data-qa="btn-apply-bottom"><a class="postings-btn template-btn-submit hex-color" data-qa="show-page-apply" href="https://jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/2225869a-5b13-4a38-ae9e-a55e1f2e9b6c/apply"></a></div></div>

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