Data Engineer
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Data Engineer at Ember in Remote, United Kingdom, for a full-time junior role in IT. JobGrid normalizes the role facts, keeps the source boundary clear from the employer description, and shows the original public application path; salary is not listed in the payload.
- Remote role in the United Kingdom; primary location data points to Edinburgh, with workplace type set to remote.
- Employment type is full time, seniority is Junior, and the category is IT with subcategory Data Engineer.
- Source timestamps show the listing was posted on 2026-06-05 and last checked on 2026-06-05.
- JobGrid preserves the employer description separately and uses structured facts for comparable classification and source freshness tracking as provided in the payload.
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.
See our work at https://ember-energy.org/ and https://x.com/ember_energy
Please note that our interview process consists of two stages. We are working to a relatively tight recruitment timeline, with first-stage interviews planned for 6–7 July and second-stage interviews planned for 14–15 July.
If you anticipate any difficulties attending interviews during these dates, please let us know in your application and we will do our best to accommodate where possible.
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