Location: Hub based! Bristol, London, Glasgow or Remote

But you have the flexibility to work wherever suits you best

Team: ML Engineering

Salary banding:  £55,770 - £80,170

Experience: Mid-level/Expert

Working pattern: Full-Time

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Collaborative, Ownership, Reliability

Top 3 qualities for this role: Proactive, Problem solver, Attention to detail

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need a diverse group of people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

We are growing our Data Science team, made up of three multi-functional squads building ML products.

This role in a nutshell:

This role sits within the ML Engineering team and will be aligned to one of these squads:

Squad 1 - A recently formed team that is building Apps to handle customer communications based on the very latest, groundbreaking AI capabilities - Large Language Models and other NLP AI techniques!

Squad 2 - The Customer Intelligence team, building a range of ML models to create a customer value framework across the portfolio of OVO products. This team is also evolving our customer decisioning through our Next Best Action engine, a real time decisioning tool that is embedded in our app, web and customer care teams.

Your key outcomes will be:

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable data solutions.
• Perform both batch and real-time data transformation, ensuring data is accurate, efficient, and readily available for analysis.
• Working with Cloud infrastructure - primarily GCP.
• Working in an Agile multi-disciplinary team where you will have the opportunity to influence technology selection.
• Establishing and advocating for good engineering standard methodologies within the team, such as:
  • Using infrastructure as code.
  • Contributing to automated testing efforts.
  • Utilising monitoring and alerting tools.
  • Employing CI/CD standard processes for production releases.

We're looking for a Data Engineer who has…

• A strong track record in designing, building, monitoring, and managing large-scale data products, pipelines, tooling, and platforms.
• Solid experience with streaming and batch ETL solutions using data processing tools like Kafka, Pub-Sub, VertexAI, BigQuery, Dataform, Postgres, or comparable technologies.
• Hands-on experience in developing cloud-based solutions across GCP, AWS, or Azure, with a command of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform and cloud compute platforms like GCP Cloud Run.
• Excellent command of at least one programming language recognised in the Data Engineering community; our team primarily utilises Python.
• A deep understanding of the best engineering practices, including containerisation, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• Experience of ML Ops, Model Training, Evaluation and Deployment
• Passion for crafting scalable, resilient solutions, and an eagerness to drive the team’s technology choices and architectural decisions.
• Comfortability working in an agile development setting with frequent release cycles, paired with experience in pair programming, Test-Driven Development (TDD), CI/CD, and strategic deployment approaches.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £55,770 - £80,170, depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits. Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and moreFor your wellbeingWith gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donationsFor your home  Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargersFor your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes, yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..