SSE plc
Senior Data Engineer
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Base Location: You'll be expected to spend 50% of your working week in one of the following locations: London, Reading, Glasgow, Perth, or Havant
Salary: £44,000 - £65,900 + 10% performance-related bonus + a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing, and family.
Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible First options available
The Role
This is a pivotal Senior Data Engineer role at the heart of SSE’s assurance transformation, owning the Assurance Data Platform and enabling data-led audit, control monitoring, and executive-level insight. The role offers the opportunity to shape scalable data foundations for analytics, automation, and AI, while working closely with Risk, Audit, Technology, and business stakeholders across the Group.
You Will
- Take ownership of a data platform that helps teams use reliable information to support audit, risk, and assurance work.
- Build and improve data pipelines, models, and reports that make complex information easier to access, understand, and use.
- Work with colleagues across technology, risk, audit, and business teams to understand data needs and turn them into practical solutions.
- Put strong data quality, security, and governance checks in place so that information is accurate, trusted, and well controlled.
- Help shape the future of data-led assurance by supporting automation, continuous monitoring, advanced analytics, and AI-ready data foundations.
You Have
- Strong hands-on experience with modern data engineering tools, including Azure Data Factory, SQL, Databricks, and Power BI; experience with AWS would be an advantage.
- Strong experience designing relational data models, including star and snowflake schemas, with the ability to choose the right modelling approach for different analytical, reporting, and operational use cases.
- Experience building, orchestrating, and automating complex data pipelines and workflows, including scheduling, monitoring, error handling, and recovery.
- Good understanding of data governance, data retention, access control, and data quality practices, with the ability to build these into technical solutions from the outset.
- Experience working with CI/CD practices for data engineering, including version control, automated deployment, testing, and release management.
- Experience working with audit, risk, controls, or assurance teams would be an advantage, including an understanding of how data can support control testing, risk monitoring, and evidence-based assurance.
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About SSE
SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating, and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses needed in the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.
Our Group Risk & Audit teams support SSE in meeting all risk management responsibilities, including UK Corporate Governance Code obligations. They undertake assurance reviews to help identify and mitigate against any risks that could impact our performance, integrity, solvency, or liquidity.
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Flexible Benefits To Fit Your Life
- Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships.
- Wellbeing benefits like a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service.
- Interest-free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike with our Cycle to Work scheme.
- As well as generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.
Work with an Equal Opportunity Employer
SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact francesca.palmer@sse.com / 01738 344763 to discuss how we can support you.
We're dedicated to fostering an open and inclusive workplace where people from all backgrounds can thrive. We create equal opportunities for everyone to succeed and especially welcome applications from those who may not be well represented in our workforce or industry.
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Start your online application using the Apply Now box on this page. We only accept applications made online. We'll be in touch after the closing date to let you know if we'll be taking your application further. If you're offered a role with SSE, you'll need to complete a criminality check and a credit check before you start work.
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