Job purpose and background

Are you passionate about securing the future of the planet by preventing catastrophic climate change? Do you want to apply your considerable creativity, energy, and digital expertise at the cutting edge of corporate climate action in one of the world’s fastest growing sustainability initiatives?

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer. Joining the growing digital function within the SBTi’s global operations team, you will collaborate closely with other teams to ensure that the SBTi technology infrastructure is well supported and service excellence is at the core of the organization.

About you

You have strong conceptualization skills and enjoy building efficient, scalable, and robust data systems. You are highly structured and approach work in a strategic way in order to build and link products in a comprehensive way. You are comfortable working with external consultants and specialists and seek to find effective ways to partner to ensure your work is fully realized. You have a deep satisfaction with what you create and are motivated by delivering the right solution to meet the needs of the business. English is the working language at SBTi and ability to communicate at a business fluent level is needed.

Key responsibilities

• Own data architecture and work with the technology team to develop best in class data management structures;
• Build and maintain integrations between enterprise systems and support collaboration between organizational dataflows;
• Seek ways to optimize and automate current processes where data flows are present;
• With the support of technology team, develop data governance and best practices for the use of data to ensure teams are aware of and compliant with data security policies and follow best practices for maintaining high quality data;
• Work within project teams as a data expert and contribute to project success by ensuring data is being handled and used in the best way possible;

Essential skills and experience

• Experience with modern data architecture, and can build API connections using tools such as Python, SQL, JS and equivalent;
• Experience building relational databases using web services in cloud environments such as Google, AWS and equivalent;
• Experience drafting highly readable data models and diagrams and writes documentation that can be easily understood by non-technical people;
• Experience working with data integrations with large enterprise systems such as ERPs or CRMs;
• Ability to work remotely and flexibly in a global environment with limited direct supervision

What we offer

• Competitive NGO salary of 60-70K EU;
• Working in one of the most successful and fastest-growing initiatives driving climate action;
• Exciting and challenging tasks in a dynamic, international, innovative, and motivated team;
• Training and development;
• Attractive holiday package