Senior Data Engineer

Description

Our client envision a zero-carbon future for society. We are a venture incubation engine which builds innovative end-to-end decarbonization businesses to accelerate the transition to a greener, more efficient world for our customers and society.
Our client's mission is to build billion-dollar potential businesses in the green economy to claim Hitachi’s potential as a climate change innovator, and to deliver on our mission to contribute to society. We incubate and build high-tech growth ventures at the intersection of mobility, energy and digital, enabling Hitachi to play a pivotal role in leading the net-zero transition.

Requirements

Essential
5+ years experience in Data Engineering
MSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, or equivalent fields.
Fluency in Python including developing code and releasing to a production environment
A solid grounding in SQL
Good understanding of software engineering best practices
Smart, motivated, can-do attitude, and seeks to make a difference
A self-starter who can find solutions to technical challenges through research and experimentation.
Ability to communicate deliverables to a non-technical audience
Familiar with version control

Desirable
Experienced working with cloud services (e.g. Azure)
Experience writing SQL queries with a strong focus on efficiency for ETL applications
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Proficiency using DataBricks
Energy management or electric vehicle domain knowledge

Job responsibilities

Role Overview
The data science and analytics team are at the core of Hitachi ZeroCarbon as a data-driven business. Our work spans both the commercial and innovation project streams in the business. Our core objectives are to increase the value proposition of our product offerings and extract insights from our large-scale innovation projects. The data science team sits within the Product function so you will be working with data engineers, software developers, business analysts and technical architects.

Key Responsibilities
You will be curious, creative and innovative – experimenting and quickly prototyping ideas, failing fast and learning fast. You’ll take a commercial perspective to problem solving and be agile and flexible in your approach. You’ll thrive on collaboration – engaging with wider teams and business affairs. You’ll take accountability for your own deliveries and manage yourself based on outputs. And you will have a strong customer focus – making it simple for others and caring deeply about success for your customers and stakeholders.
Reporting directly to the Chief Data Scientist, your responsibilities will include:
Extracting insights from data gathered from a wide variety of sources with a focus on delivering value to our customers via our product and service offering
Developing forecasting and optimisation models to enable smart energy and power management
Report and present research findings and developments including status and results clearly and efficiently both internally and externally, verbally and in writing.
Coordinate work with Business Analysts on other project work-streams to ensure we operate as ‘One Hitachi’ and exceed our customer expectations
Adoption of coding standards and participation in peer code reviews
Work closely with the wider product team to ensure overall quality of the delivered trials and technology
Write and maintain project documentation and specifications
Work with external collaborators and maintain relationships with key individuals as appropriate.