Data Ops Engineer - #1114725

Data Ops Engineer

Location: Glasgow

Salary: Up to £50K (plus bonus + healthcare)

Hybrid working

Help us create a better future, quicker

At ScottishPower, we believe in delivering a better future quicker by digitilising our business to enable a just transition to a NetZero future. There has never been a more exciting time to join a purpose led business like ours, with a mission to drive digital innovation and transformation for a more sustainable future. 

What you’ll be doing

We are looking for problem solvers whose curiosity and commitment to high standards will mean that they will enjoy having real responsibility, right away to get close to our businesses to deliver value. Your role will be to uncover actionable insight by flexing your data skills to enable business decision-making and unlock the value of our data. This is a challenging opportunity, and we will provide support and opportunities for development to help you on your journey to build new areas of expertise. You’ll have an opportunity to make a difference for customers and stakeholders by reducing cost and waste to modernise energy for a NetZero future.

There will be plenty of opportunities for exploratory analysis. In the short term, we will also need your help to support the business in defining robust metrics and establishing a catalogue of data features that can help them to self-serve on the most common requests. As our capabilities grows, we expect to be collaborating more and more on opportunities requiring advanced analytics solutions. We are looking for someone who is keen to grow and to help shape the reporting and analytics service, working alongside colleagues and delivery partners and through an analytics community of practice

What you'll be working on;

• Cloud automation and Orchestration using continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) development using Github Actions and Runners and maintaining Data Operation.




• Creating and maintaining Data Pipelines and Operations.




• Delivering data engineering solutions in line with a scalable data architecture and feature-rich datasets.




• Develop solutions for streaming data ingestion and transformations in line with strategy.




• Facilitating a logical and physical view of data, metadata and data quality.




• Interpret, document, and translate business needs into feature-engineered datasets for productionisation.




• Educating and embedding new data techniques into the business through knowledge sharing.




• Identifying ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality.

What you’ll bring

• Experience creating and maintaining Data Pipelines and Operations.




• Experience of deploying and managing distributed data/ETL pipelines




• Experience in managing data engineering tooling/orchestration




• Experience of programming languages such as python, SPARK or SQL




• Experience with data ingestion and validation

Nice to have, but not essential

• Experience in API services via Kubernetes and API Gateway.




• Experience in PowerBI And PowerAutomate would be an added advantage.

What’s in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%. 

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action – our benefits are designed to help you do just that -  so that you have everything you need to take care of your world – today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave




• Holiday purchase – perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave




• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme




• Payroll giving and charity matched funding




• Technology Vouchers – save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes




• Count us in – pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change




• Electric Vehicle Schemes – to help you transition to green/clean driving




• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans




• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments




• Life Assurance (4x salary)




• Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support




• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you’ll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support.

Mobility

Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

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