Data Manager

Are you an experienced Data professional looking for an exciting new challenge? Would you like to join an established energy business as part of new digital transformation team driving the journey to Net Zero? Can you demonstrate a track record of working as a strategic partner bridging the gap between commercial business needs and the IT solutions? Do you have previous experience working in a fast paced commodities/trading environment?

This newly created role operating as part of the global data team offers an exceptional career opportunity for an ambitious candidate, who can demonstrate a blend of technical skills/knowledge across data engineering combined with a strategic commercial approach to the application of data. As the successful applicant your main responsibilities will be to drive the development, adoption, and support the ingestion, handling, storing, and cleaning and distribution of data within the trading division. This will involve collaborating closely with traders, desk analysts and central teams to understand their data needs. You will then translate these requirements into epics and stories, manage prioritization and delivery, and oversee the implementation of data governance solutions, automation, and data ingestion from external and internal sources in a large-scale data environment.

To be considered you will be able to demonstrate a well rounded understanding of data, data structures & data storage; meta data management, an understanding and interest of the trading business and commodity markets.Technically you will need to show programming knowledge in Python, (experience with data analysis-related packages such as pandas, numpy, and matplotlib is desired). Strong data pipeline engineering skills/DB Architecture and RDBMS understanding (eg Schema design). You will also need to show excellent communication skills, the ability to communicate, understand and influence a diverse group of stakeholders is essential.

In return we offer a competitive basic salary, benefits package including bonus scheme. Excellent career progression and development and hybrid working arrangements of 2/3 days in the office (City of London) each week.