Base pay: £70,000 - 80,000

Share Options: £10,000

Annual Bonus: 0-10%+ (based on Company Performance)

Our Mission

At Switchee, we believe that everyone deserves to live in a decent home and that the environments we inhabit have a massive influence on our ability to enjoy life and prosper. One in five households in the UK live in social housing, a sector with the right values at its core but that has historically struggled to deploy innovations in the home. Many residents still can’t afford to heat their homes, and live in cold, mouldy properties they can’t be proud of.

We believe that radical innovation in internet-connected technology can ensure that every resident, every day, is living in a home that allows them to succeed. That’s why our products are built not just on great technology, but on an understanding of what people want from the space they live in.

This approach led us to reimagine the most mundane household object: the thermostat, into a product that automatically reduces energy bills, looks great, and offers control to those who want it. We are also revolutionising the way social landlords manage their housing stock with an obsessively tailored SaaS property dashboard and handy alerts on things like when the boiler is going to break.

Our goal is to perfect the ultimate connected hub for the social home. It’s going to revolutionise the way residents interact with their homes and landlords manage their properties.

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join Switchee’s growing Data team and take a leading role in building out our Data Platform.

Data is critical to Switchee’s future. The insights we generate help tenants in social housing save money and energy and live more comfortably. They also help social landlords manage their properties more effectively so they can increase their reach, helping more people and targeting their resources most effectively.

We are at the cutting edge of social housing adoption of green technologies, playing a critical role in getting the sector to net zero carbon emissions. A key goal of the Data team is to use data to clearly tell the stories that enable tenants to understand their energy usage and to deliver the nudges that help them use their heating systems efficiently. This will save them money while also reducing their carbon footprint.

In all of this, our Data Platform is vital in underpinning any and all analytical work, and is of extreme importance as Switchee scales. Your work will help to ensure that we can effectively turn data into insights and clear actions that we can deliver t

Your Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities include the following:

• Work closely with the Data and Cloud Leads to design and build out Switchee’s Lakehouse Data Platform to provide high quality enriched data to internal and external stakeholders.

• Model data requirements, data sources and data flows to bring order and structure to data product development.

• Design, develop, test, monitor and maintain data pipelines using tools such as Spark.

• Ensure high data quality is maintained as far as possible by addressing issues at source, and implement rigorous processes (e.g. data contracts) to support this.

• Work with the Data Lead on data management and governance initiatives, such as the implementation and maintenance of our enterprise-wide data catalogue.

• Ensure best practice is followed with all of your work, such as maintaining good standards of documentation, source controlling your code and following appropriate deployment processes.

• Proactively identify external/industry data sets to support our analytics and insights offerings, engaging with partners as appropriate to integrate this data within our data platform.

• Mentoring of Junior Data Engineers as the data team scales.

You will work closely with the Data and Cloud teams to deliver production infrastructure and data products, and the Devices team regarding the raw data received from Switchee’s IoT devices in the field. You will focus on leading the design and build of Switchee’s Data Platform, developing and maintaining both batch and streaming data pipelines to serve high quality data to enable our analytical use cases. You will report into the Data Lead with a dotted line to the Cloud Lead.

Who You Are

These are ideal but not required - we will happily consider applicants who we believe can successfully grow into the role, even if they are not 100% qualified. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture at Switchee:

• Minimum 5 years commercial Data Engineering experience, including min. 1 year as a senior engineer.

• You have experience designing, deploying and maintaining data pipelines and cloud infrastructure for analytics and BI workloads in a production environment, including projects you led technically.

• Experience architecting and developing data products on AWS (including Kinesis, Glue, S3, Redshift etc.).

• You have experience delivering production-level data pipelines in Python and Spark.

• You have prior experience with Lakehouse Data Platforms.

Any of the following would be a plus:

• Experience with IoT devices and sensor data.

• Experience developing streaming data pipelines.

• Exposure to DevOps tools and processes (e.g. Terraform, Octopus Deploy).

• Familiarity with the Social Housing sector and the challenges faced there.

• Experience working in a scaling startup with a high performance culture

Perks

- Unlimited holiday policy (on top of your contractual 25 days + Bank Holidays) so you can take as much as you want! No need to count those Winter break days anymore!

- Everyone at Switchee enjoys flexible working hours and is the master of their own routine.

- We have a remote-first Hybrid Working Model, with offices near London Bridge.

We will provide you with all the necessary equipment to work from home in a safe and enjoyable manner.

- We socialise together with regular outings in London, Quarterly Company Off-sites and an annual “working remotely” trip where you have the option (but no obligation) to join us in working from a fun location.

- We are hosting regular Virtual Socials and keep finding creative ways of staying connected with each other.

- We provide an L&D budget and access to our Switchee Library, where you can request new books monthly.

- We provide access to ThanksBen - a platform with plentiful discounts and free virtual well-being sessions.

- We offer Spill, a Mental Health app at your fingertips, where you can get in touch with a therapist in record time.

P.S Switchee is a Disability Confident Employer and we aim to provide reasonable adjustments for our new hires to ensure they are successful and supported in their roles.