Role Overview:

We are seeking a talented and ambitious Junior Data Engineer to play a crucial role in supporting and scaling our product, delivery and data functions at the heart of Pivotal. This role will collaborate with our Product & Tech teams to collate, clean, and analyze extensive datasets, honing skills in data preprocessing and visualisation. Additionally, the role will also provide opportunities to learn the design, build, and productionising of innovative data pipelines in the cloud.

This role will work cross-functionally to enhance agile delivery capability for the company, ensuring our customers get access to valuable data & analytics quickly, efficiently and accurately. It will be high visibility and impactful in building and scaling our data & analytics platform. The salary range will be £35-45,000/year, depending on experience.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with various teams to identify and address data analysis needs.

• Collate, clean, and process data from diverse sources, utilising Python and SQL for comprehensive initial analysis.

• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports and web applications to deliver insight and enable teams to self-serve their data needs.

• Develop and deploy automated data analysis solutions using cloud-based platforms.

• Be responsible for end-to-end Data Science lifecycle in specific projects: analysis of data, from data cleaning to extracting insights and recommending production approaches.

• Cultivate a culture of collaboration, impact, innovation, and health.

You should apply if you have:

• 2-4 years of experience in a data science, data analytics or data engineering role, preferably at a B2B technology company.

• Foundational data analysis and modeling skills, and ability to contribute to creating meaningful insights to enhance business decisions.

• Proficiency in Python and SQL use for data analysis and the ability to write clean, reproduceable and well-documented code. Experience with Typescript & React would be an asset.

• Proficiency using Git for version control and experience of code review processes.

• Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a cohesive team, highlighting adaptability and strong teamwork capabilities.

• A positive attitude, ability to handle multiple projects, the self-motivation to learn by doing and able to quickly acquire new technical skills and domain knowledge.

• While not essential, experience in an agile development process, engineering best practices and geospatial analysis using Python and GIS tools (QGIS, ArcGIS) and experience using cloud-based platforms (Azure, AWS, Google cloud) would be beneficial.

• A passion for the preservation of nature and an entrepreneurial mindset and passion for building and growing a successful company, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

• (Ideally) a base in the UK or Western Europe.

About Pivotal:

We are a team of ecologists and technologists who believe good business must be good for nature. We are revolutionizing the nature space by linking biodiversity commitments and actions to real, auditable data. Evidence of real improvements in biodiversity is critical to the expansion of innovative financial mechanisms which fund the restoration of nature. Without this evidence, investors are exposed to the risk of false promises, human bias and reputational damage.

Following our €5.6m seed round investment from some of Europe’s leading VCs and advocates for a better planet, we are growing our team to support our next stage of growth. We are here to build an institution that changes the way the world collaboratively works on one of the largest problems our planet is facing, and the only way we can do that is by bringing together a team who is passionate about restoring nature in new and exciting ways.

What we offer you:

• Impact; you will be joining us in the early days of the business, giving you plenty of opportunities to contribute to developing operational processes that will be critical to how value is unlocked from nature.

• Autonomy; we want to build a culture of trust and give you the space to do your best work.

• Remote-first; a fast-paced start-up environment with opportunities for in-person collaboration as needed.

• Competitive salary & benefits.

• A fun and diverse team of smart and very mission-oriented, driven people.

We are a remote-first, diverse team from a broad range of backgrounds. We expect there will be areas where there is scope for personal development, so please do apply if you don’t feel that you meet all the criteria. We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity, disability status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.