Data Engineer

Use your data skills to work on the most important challenge of our time: shifting the world from coal to clean energy.

Ember is an independent energy & climate think tank, using data to drive down carbon emissions from electricity generation and phase-out coal. We gather, curate and analyse data on the global power system - and use our findings to improve energy and climate policy. You’ll be joining us at a period of rapid growth, and be part of an innovative team that’s having a global impact in tackling climate change. We are also a founding member of Subak, the world’s first non-profit accelerator that scales climate impact through data, policy and behaviour change.

See our work at www.ember-climate.org and https://twitter.com/EmberClimate

The role

Ember is recruiting a talented data engineer who will take ownership of our core electricity generation and emission data. Ember’s vision is to become the go-to place for open data on the electricity transition, and already has global influence through the publication of a number of flagship reports on the transition to clean power. The data team is growing as we expand our current electricity generation data to more frequent updates, wider geographical coverage, and to include other electricity data metrics such as capacity and emissions. Your role will be to ensure our core data is up-to-date and of the highest quality, to curate and maintain new datasets to support our analysis, and to ensure the processes we use are future-proof as we seek to expand our data and our impact.

Data can help change the world, tracking the global electricity transition is critical. The broader Ember team – and key stakeholders, especially campaign groups, politicians and academics – turn our data into action, to impact the speed of the electricity transition.

The wider Ember team of electricity experts will give you valuable support to bring insights into electricity data and to complement your technical competency with data, leveraging your ability to impact. The role will report into the Data Lead.

Location: Fully remote in Europe or Asia

Key responsibilities

• Own the running and maintenance of Ember’s core global electricity data and the data architecture
• Ensure data quality and data integrity of core data
• Work with analysts to quickly identify and capture new data
• Orchestrate and automate existing ETL pipelines
• Ensure the data is easily and reliably accessible to stakeholders within and outside of Ember

Requirements

Must have

• At least 2 years experience as a data engineer.
• Strong python programming skills
• Experience building ETL pipelines
• Version control (Git)
• Knowledge of database management and SQL
• Cloud exposure (ideally GCP)
• Fluent in spoken and written English.
• A passion for creating open data to tackle climate change

Nice to have

• Workflow orchestration e.g. Airflow, Dagster
• DevOps and CI/CD experience
• Experience in front-end data visualisation (Dash, React, D3)
• Experience in building and maintaining a public API
• Built a network in the open climate data community

We are especially keen to encourage applications from people underrepresented in climate change analysis and campaigning. Climate change is a race issue, a class issue, and a gender issue. We welcome applicants with lived experiences of these issues.

Benefits

Salary: Competitive salary and benefits package

Contract: Full time (35 hours), permanent subject to a 3 month probationary period. For employees based outside of the UK, a local payroll contract is available, dependent on the country.

Location: Fully remote
Further benefits: We offer a competitive benefits package, including:

• 25 days holiday, plus UK bank holidays (Unless local statutory minimums are higher) and for each year that you're part of the team at Ember you'll receive an additional day of holiday, up to a maximum of 5 additional days.
• Generous paid maternity and paternity leave
• Flexible working conditions, including the opportunity for part-time work and home working.
• Access to co-working spaces in Edinburgh and London shared with other NGOs. Access to a local working space can also be arranged for employees located in other cities
• Free annual eye tests
• Access to a counselling service
• Funding and allocated time for your training and development
• Paid volunteer day
• Two paid days off to enable low carbon travel
• Time off to donate blood
• Season Ticket loan