Data Engineer

Data Scientist Role At Ember

Use your coding and data skills to work on the most important challenge of our time: shifting the world to clean energy.

The role

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.

About Ember

Ember is an independent, not-for-profit 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, and use our findings to improve energy and climate policy.

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