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Lead Data Products Engineer – Energy Products Practice at Baringa
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Lead Data Products Engineer to join our Data Products Team in Baringa's Energy Products practice.
At Baringa, we partner with leaders globally to drive transformative change. As world leaders in modelling energy markets and leveraging these insights to decarbonise the industry, we specialise in developing advanced analytical models and the technology ecosystem behind them. Our new Data and Processing Platform sits centrally within this.
This is your chance to shape the energy transition—a defining challenge—as you design, curate, and evolve foundational data products that underpin our modelling processes, analytics outputs, and client-facing systems.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Lead a dedicated Data Products Team by defining the data architecture and equipping engineers and subject matter experts to meet real-world, evolving demands
- Engage with Baringa’s energy market experts to design, develop, and refine data products that directly support modelling and client-facing outputs
- Drive technical decisions that align commercial delivery priorities with long-term strategic goals
- Balance quality, reliability, and agility while evolving data products for increasing complexity in energy models
Engineering Leadership
- Build a deep understanding of our energy data ecosystem, mapping key data streams from terabyte-scale hourly projections to kilobyte academic datasets across 50+ years
- Own specific data product domains, ensuring their ongoing quality, reliability, and adoption in modelling and analytics
- Formalise data contracts, managing schemas, version control, and data governance workflows, while ensuring backwards compatibility and versionability
Team and Platform Collaboration
- Collaborate closely with the Data Platform Team to develop data capture and transformation processes that feed our modelling workflows
- Drives adoption of engineering best practices, prioritising observability and quality control from inception through delivery
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Agile Improvement
- Active role in every stage of the team’s agile development cycle (Scrum/Kanban), from refinement to delivery
- Champion iterative development, continuously improving data products and internal processes
Experience and Skills
Core Technical Expertise
- 5+ years of relevant industry experience as a lead/senior engineer in data product design/curation
- Knowledge and passion for how data drives real-world outcomes in high-importance industries (ideally energy)
- Python proficiency for both data engineering (data pipelines) and domain modelling
- Professional experience with:
- Data Management (SQL, NoSQL databases, processing engines, replication, optimisation)
- **Cloud environments (AWS, Azure) and Cloud Data Lakehouse architectures
- Python frameworks (PySpark, Pandas)
- CI/CD tools and git workflows
- Data governance standards, including metadata and data-quality metrics
- Familiarity with data mesh or data-product paradigms
- Strong ability to articulate technical complexity clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
Soft Skills and Mindsets
- Collaborative with domain experts, data scientists, and client-facing teams
- Problem solver—flexible approach to identify optimal technologies and trade-offs
- Prove-led mindset: pride in delivering robust, maintainable, and impactful outcomes
- Commitment to driving long-term value through clean code, consistent design, and reliability
Why Join Baringa
About Our Culture
We are ·
- A People First organisation, where well-being is a top priority.
- Great Place to Work three years running, recognised by the Financial Times for Leadership in the UK consulting sector.
- All staff have a voicing stake—via shares and benefits that support growth + sustainability.
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Benefits
- Generous leave (5 weeks +2 weeks per year for 5+ years of service)
- Flexible, hybrid-first work arrangements
- 3 corporate social responsibility days (focused on addressing social/environmental challenges)
- Wellbeing fund to support personal well-being initiatives
- Profit share scheme, aligning your success with Baringa’s goals
Our Values & Commitments
- Awards winning for diversity and inclusion. We take pride in fostering a sense of belonging for all.
- Net Zero & Business Futures. As committed signatories of the Better Business Act, we publish our progress yearly.
- Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives:
- Focused on shared purpose—supporting charities with measurable social/environmental impact.
- Encouraging employees to give back through defined volunteering hours and mentorship programs.
Steps to Apply
- All applications are considered holistically—we actively encourage applicants from non-university or underrepresented backgrounds (e.g.: care, military, translating from other fields).
- Disabilities & adjustments: Please contact our Talent Acquisition team to discuss reasonable adjustments during the hiring process.
- Diversity pledge: We prioritise inclusive recruitment practices.
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