Lead Data Engineer - Conservation

Role: Lead Data Engineer – Conservation

Location: Remote, UK or Europe

Salary: Up to £55k plus benefits

You love working with data. But you love the planet even more. And, up until now, you’ve not had a chance to combine those two passions in your career.

Maybe you are stuck creating mind-bogglingly brilliant data engineering solutions for a faceless bank, or an investor-backed SaaS start-up, but you desperately want your work to mean more.

You want your work to count for more, and to actively contribute to helping our planet and the complex ecosystems under threat from climate change and habitat destruction.

Well, here you can!

In a brand new role to the organisation, you will play a leading role in their data engineering function as they look to unlock and begin their data journey.

You will work with the senior technology team to move the organisation to a more modern, data-centric infrastructure whilst also playing a key role in mentoring and coaching 2 other members of the data team.

Whilst a large part of this role will be technically focused, you will also need excellent soft skills to implement changes in what is traditionally an academically driven culture where intelligent people to well-formed arguments and evidence and do not bluster.

A key selling point of this role is the chance to make your mark in one of the most highly respected conservation organisations in the world. The team are fully bought into hiring this role and can’t wait for the right person to get started!

You will need a proven background of working as a data engineer within an IaaS / Microsoft Azure environment. You will be familiar with Azure Data Factory and Synapse, with hands-on experience in Azure SQL, MySQL and/or PostgreSQL, with scripting expertise in Python, PowerShell, bash and/or R.

Any experience with PostGIS would be useful, as would Spark and Hadoop knowledge.

On offer is a base salary of up to £55k + generous pension + further benefits, and almost fully remote working, with travel only expected once a quarter or less.

Please note, that though you can be based anywhere in Europe for this role, the strong preference is to have someone located in the UK.

Please apply for immediate consideration. We welcome diverse applicants and are dedicated to treating all applicants with dignity and respect, regardless of background