Lead Analytical Engineer

Duration: Contract

Workload: Full time hours

Setup: Freelance (Daily rate / Limited Company / Umbrella / Sole Trader)

Location: Remote (UK‐based)

Overview

We need a Lead Analytics Engineer to define, scale and future‐proof data practices for a complex Energy Intelligence Platform operating at real‐time scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the technical architect for scalable, reliable analytics data models built on modern best practices.
• Define and enforce analytics engineering standards across the data organisation, including CI/CD, testing and modular design.
• Design advanced dimensional data models to support highly complex analytical and operational scenarios.
• Own the long‐term vision for data modelling, quality and governance, including GDPR incident response.
• Partner closely with Product and senior stakeholders to translate business goals into clear, scalable technical solutions and shape the analytics roadmap.
• Champion a strong, data‐driven culture across cross‐functional teams.

Must‐Have Skills

• Mastery of dimensional data modelling and complex analytics engineering solutions.
• Expert‐level SQL with strong hands‐on experience using dbt.
• Proven ability to drive adoption of new standards, tools and patterns without direct authority.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non‐technical audiences.
• Deep, end‐to‐end understanding of the data lifecycle from ingestion through to consumption.

Nice‐to‐Have

• Ownership of organisation‐wide data modelling or analytics engineering strategy.
• Experience designing and implementing data governance frameworks.
• Leading rapid proofs of concept for modern data tooling.