Senior Data Engineer

• Agile & Scrum Project Delivery - working with project managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to shape, estimate, and deliver using Agile delivery methodologies
• Requirements Gathering - Understand and translate end-user requirements into designs and delivery plans for effective data solutions
• Data Platforms & Pipelines - Design, develop, execute, and maintain highly automated data platforms, pipelines and applications using modern cloud technologies
• Data Quality - Analyse and resolve data quality issues
• Communicate Effectively - Produce high-quality communications, documentation, and presentations of solutions for colleagues
• Practice Building - Subject matter expert and evangelist for cloud data technologies. Helping to grow both our internal knowledge and skillsets as we scale.
• Commercial, Pre-Sales & Outreach - Working with the business development team to shape and win new projects. Contribution to Hypercube’s blog and other outreach efforts, * High Impact - Solve difficult problems for leading energy players tackling net-zero challenges
• Flexible Working - Remote/hybrid, part-time or condensed options - we measure outcomes, not chair-time
• Personal Brand - We sponsor conferences, blog posts and OSS work - your thought-leadership is encouraged
• Start-Up Energy, Consultancy Rigour - Best of both worlds - fast decisions, minimal bureaucracy, clear processes
• Performance-Related Bonus
• Enhanced Pension
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity
• Private Health Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme
• Flexible Working (remote/hybrid options)
• Events & Community involvement
• EV Leasing Scheme
• Training & Events Budget

• Consultancy / Energy Experience - Highly beneficial, not essential, We understand that this list is extensive - please apply if you fit some or only part of it. We want to see the broadest range of possible candidates from a diverse mix of backgrounds. Technical skills are only part of the equation.

Ideally, you will have hands-on experience with the following in a previous role:

• Python
• SQL
• Data Warehousing (Snowflake, Redshift, Synapse, BigQuery, etc.)
• Data Lakes/Lakehouses and analytical tools (Databricks, Azure Fabric/OneLake, AWS Lake Formation, Spark, Athena, etc.)
• Relational, NoSQL, graph and vector databases
• Containers and related services (Docker, Kubernetes, container Registries, etc)
• CI/CD and other DevOps practices such as IaC
• Testing

Additional experience with the following would be beneficial but not essential:

• Orchestration tools - Apache Airflow, Prefect or cloud-native tools
• Backend software development (Java, APIs, Scalability, Logging and Monitoring etc.)
• LLMs and Agentic AI
• BI tools such as Tableau / Power BI

Other desirable skills and experience

• Ability to act as a senior mentor and leadership figure for a growing data and analytics consultancy
• Building projects or sharing knowledge in public - whether that be contributing to open source, blogging, YouTube, content creation, speaking at events, or similar.
• Experience translating designs of data solutions into action
• Analysis/requirements gathering, solution design, and implementation of data platform and cloud technologies
• Experience in collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams, including software engineers, DevOps and infrastructure teams, AI/ML engineers, data scientists etc.
• Experience in implementing integrations of data platforms to various types of external and on-premises systems
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal - able to translate complex technical subject matter into easily understood presentations and written documentation for mixed technical audiences.

£60,000 - £80,000 Base + Performance Related Bonus + Benefits, * Visa Sponsorship - Not available - you must already have the right to work in the UK

• Flexibility - We welcome part-time, condensed hours, job-shares and other arrangements - if you’re unsure, apply and let’s talk
• Diversity & Inclusion - We want a broad mix of people and perspectives

Hypercube Consultingis a rapidly scaling data-and-AI specialist focused on the energy sector. We pair deep domain know-how with modern technology to help utilities, renewables and low-carbon innovators unlock value from data. Learn more about how we think on our founder’s blog at

As a senior data engineer, you will truly understand a client’s requirements to build, test and deploy data solutions that help customers deliver more value from their data. This will be a senior role in the technical delivery teams and will guide and support the ongoing data strategy and roadmap goals of our customers. You’ll get stuck into the end-to-end data workflow - everything from realtime event streaming to big data analytics using modern tools across a range of technology stacks.