Lead Data Products Engineer

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">About Baringa&nbsp;</span></h3> <p>Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.</p> <p>The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.</p> <p>Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.</p> <p>Certified as a&nbsp;<em>Great Place to Work </em>around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the <em>Financial Times </em>in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by <em>Forbes </em>for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.</p></div><h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><span data-contrast="none">Our Energy Products practice are looking for an experienced Lead Data Products Engineer to join the team.</span>&nbsp;</span></h2> <p>Baringa are world leaders in modelling energy markets and using the insights generated through these models to drive change in a decarbonising energy industry. The Energy Products practice specialises in the development and innovation of our analytical models and supporting technology ecosystem underpinned by our deep expertise in the energy markets.</p> <p>Our staff come from diverse backgrounds, based across multiple geographies, and building models that utilise highly varied data sources – everything from kilobytes of academic papers to terabytes of hourly scenario projections for 50+ years. To ensure the ongoing success of our product development and manage the increasing complexity of our models, we are establishing a dedicated Data Products Team to curate, design and evolve the data products that underpin our modelling processes, analytics outputs and client-facing systems — working within our new internal Data and Processing Platform.</p> <p>Come and join us to be part of the energy transition, the defining challenge of our lifetimes, where your technical skills and experience can have real impact.</p> <h3><span style="color: rgb(0, 53, 142);"><span data-contrast="none">What you will be doing</span></span></h3> <p>We are looking for a Lead Data Products Engineer to lead the Data Products team, taking on a key role of engaging with Baringa subject matter experts to define, design and evolve data products within our new internal Data and Processing Platform that directly support our modelling processes and client-facing outputs.</p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">You will build a deep understanding of our data domain, capturing our key data sources, how they flow into modelling processes, and how outputs are used in analytics and client-facing systems to ensure data products are designed to meet real demands</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">You will drive the design and development of foundational data products on our new Data Platform, collaborating closely with the Platform team to develop the data capture and transformation processes that produce them</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">You will own specific domain data products and their supporting processes, taking responsibility for their ongoing quality, adoption, reliability and evolution to support our modelling and analytics activities</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">You will formalise data contracts, owning the schemas, versioning strategy, data governance workflows and supporting backwards compatible interfaces</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">You will provide technical leadership to the team alongside the Product Owner, shaping data product design decisions and balancing commercial delivery priorities against long-term strategic goals</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">You will drive engineering best practices, ensuring that quality, reliability and observability are built in from inception</span></li> <li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 8pt; vertical-al