Data Engineer

Description

Ember publishes the best-in-class dataset on global electricity generation and the data team is growing as we expand our datasets to new areas such as installed renewable capacity, price, battery storage, grids and flexibility, EV and heat pump deployment.

We are looking for someone to use their data and coding skills to ensure we can quickly gather and curate data from new sources, as well as helping to run, maintain and document existing data pipelines.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to learn from a knowledgeable and passionate team of engineers and analysts while applying your development skills towards the clean energy transition.

Please note that our interview process consists of two stages. We are working to a relatively tight recruitment timeline, with first-stage interviews planned for 6–7 July and second-stage interviews planned for 14–15 July.

If you anticipate any difficulties attending interviews during these dates, please let us know in your application, and we will do our best to accommodate where possible.

Key details

Salary: GBP £36,587 – £44,903

Location: Remote

Hours: Full Time

Closing date: 17th June 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Application Pack

Please note that this role has now closed and we are no longer accepting applications.

Suitable candidates will be contacted in due course.

 Job description

Location

Fully remote, (UTC +00 – UTC +4)

Key responsibilities

Develop new ETL scripts using python to gather and validate data from a variety of sources e.g. APIs, web scraping.
Work with our data engineering team to deploy ETL scripts within our orchestrated data platform based on Dagster and BigQuery.
Help run, maintain, and improve existing data pipelines
Help ensure that our pipelines are written using best coding and data practices
Help ensure Ember’s data and output are of the highest standard

Must have

At least one year experience developing and deploying python code
Experience working with SQL databases
Numerate and data literate, with excellent data extraction and transformation skills
A thoughtful and selective approach to the use of AI coding tools and the ability to critically evaluate their outputs.
Fluent in spoken and written English
Passionate about clean energy
Driven and keen to learn
Systematic with careful attention to detail
Ability to work as part of a remote international team

Nice to have

Experience developing data pipelines on an orchestration platform such as dagster (preferred), airflow, dbt or prefect
Experience with version control software such as git
Experience working on cloud platforms, such as GCP (preferred), AWS or Azure
Experience working with business users to turn research questions into specific data requirements, and developing to those requirements
Other language skills
Previous experience within the power sector or clean energy sector

Salary & hours

Salary: £36,587 – £44,903. Salaries are adjusted based on the local cost of living, with country-specific salary ranges shared at the interview stage. In all cases, salaries will not be below 75% of the advertised range.
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Contract: Full-time (but only working 9 days every fortnight with no reduction in pay), 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.

Further Benefits

We operate a nine-day fortnight meaning our full-time staff are given every other Friday off work with no reduction in pay.
25 days holiday. 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 a local working space can be arranged.
In-person meet-ups (on average 2 meet-ups per year)
Allowance for home office equipment
Free annual eye tests.
Access to a counselling service.
Funding and allocated time for your training and development.
Paid volunteer day.
Four paid days off to enable low carbon travel.
Time off to donate blood.

About us

Ember is an independent energy think tank that aims to accelerate the clean energy transition with data and policy. We gather, curate and analyse data on the power sector and coal mine methane emissions, publishing this openly and accessibly. We use our data-driven insights to shift the conversation towards high-impact policies and empower other advocates to do the same.

See our work Working at Ember