Our priority is to match the right person to the right role, and we never want salary to be a barrier to applying. Regardless of your current pay, we’ll ask about your salary expectations during the application process, and our Talent Team will have an open, honest conversation during the talent call to understand your skills and explore our salary options. If you have questions around salary, please feel free to ask us!

Salary Range: £68,000-£90,000

Location: Chiswick, London - Hybrid 2 days in office

Sponsorship: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Data Lead – Analytics Engineering & Insights to lead the next phase of maturity in our analytics function. This role is critical in enabling the business to move beyond reporting toward decision-grade analytics, underpinned by trusted data models, consistent metrics, and scalable insight capability.

You will be responsible for leading the Analytics Engineering function - scaling curated facts, dimensions, and metrics, while also enabling the wider analytics team to generate insights that directly inform business decisions. Acting as a multiplier for our Data Science capability, you will ensure experimentation, forecasting, and analytical insight are grounded in robust, reusable data foundations.

Working closely with Product, Operations, Finance, and Technology leadership, this role bridges data engineering, analytics, and decision-making, ensuring analytics outputs lead to real-world action.

Reporting to Nethin Maharaj, Head of Data 👋

⭐ Why So Energy?

So Energy was created in 2015 because we knew energy suppliers could be better. Since then, we’ve grown rapidly but sustainably, with 300,000 customers and over 450 Energists (what we call our people). But we’re not done! We’re on the road to a net-zero future, and thanks to our partnership with ESB, we’re well on the way. We’re customer-centric, tech-led, and passionate about sustainability.

We’re driven to do our best for our customers, for each other, and for our planet. That’s why we’ve built a workplace culture that’s supportive, empowering, inclusive, and full of opportunities to grow and make an impact.

At So Energy, we take pride in our values-driven culture. We live and breathe by our six core values that guide everything we do:

Clear
Honest
Ambitious
Inquisitive
Caring
Sustainable

What you’ll be getting up to in this role:

Analytics Engineering Leadership

Lead the design and scaling of curated data models, including facts, dimensions, and metrics
Own analytics engineering standards, documentation, and review processes
Ensure consistent and trusted metric definitions across the organisation
Oversee Looker semantic models and ensure reporting is built on robust foundations

Insight Enablement & Decision Support

Enable scalable insight delivery by embedding experimentation and analytical thinking into the analytics team
Act as a bridge between Analytics Engineers and Data Scientists, ensuring insight work is well-framed and grounded in trusted data
Support forecasting, experimentation, and decision-support initiatives without becoming a delivery bottleneck
Ensure analytics outputs are decision-focused and actionable

People & Capability Development

Lead, coach, and develop Analytics Engineers, supporting progression from BI to analytics engineering and insight work
Identify and nurture individuals with the potential to grow into advanced analytics or insight-focused roles
Create clear career pathways and learning opportunities within the analytics function

Stakeholder Partnership

Partner with Product, Operations, Finance, and Technology leaders to prioritise analytical work
Translate business problems into structured analytical approaches and data requirements
Act as a trusted advisor on metric interpretation and analytical confidence

Governance & Quality

Ensure analytical outputs meet quality, consistency, and governance expectations
Promote best practices around data integrity, metric trust, and responsible use of analytics

You’re a great match if:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data, Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field
Strong experience in analytics, analytics engineering, or advanced BI roles, with exposure to decision-led analytics
Proven leadership experience managing analysts or analytics engineers
Strong SQL and Python expertise and experience designing dimensional data models (facts, dimensions, metrics)
Experience working with cloud data platforms (Google Cloud preferred)
Experience owning or contributing to semantic layers and BI tools (eg. Looker)
Strong understanding of experimentation concepts (A/B testing, hypothesis testing, causal thinking)
Ability to translate ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decision-making at senior levels

Desirable Skills

Experience operating in a product-led or operationally complex environment
Familiarity with forecasting, experimentation frameworks, or applied statistics
Experience scaling analytics capability through standards, templates, and playbooks
Exposure to data science workflows and collaboration with Data Scientists
Understanding of modern data operating models (Analytics Engineering, Metric Stores, Semantic Layers)

Research shows that some underrepresented people are less likely to apply for a role unless they are 100% qualified. We believe your experience, skills, and passion will set you apart. We encourage you to apply and tell us about your journey, even if you don’t tick all the boxes.

📅 Our Hiring Process:

Talent Screen - 20 minutes Teams call
Hiring Manager competency-based Interview
Final stage interview and presentation

APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON 6th February 2025

🤝What’s in it for you?

Smart Working Charters

Hybrid working – Each team has its own Smart Working Charter. Ask your talent partner for more details.

Growth & Development

Personalised learning & development budgets – to support your growth journey, L&D buddies to guide you along the way.
Internal learning platform – with thousands of valuable resources.

Pay & Reward

Up to 10% performance bonus – based on company and personal performance.
Annual Salary Reviews – to ensure we remain competitive in the market.
Commitment to being a real living wage provider.

Time Off That Matters

Your birthday off – it only comes once a year, so enjoy it!
3 So Giving Days – spend time supporting a cause you care about.
Enhanced family leave – supporting you through every life chapter.

Health & Wellbeing

Unmind – Access to personalised coaching or therapy to support your mental wellbeing.
Physical Support – Free eye tests, flu vaccinations.
Access to Perkbox – Additional wellbeing & savings benefits.
Menopause Policy – To ensure all employees are being taken care off.

Belonging & Recognition

Affinity Groups – join one of our employee groups to foster meaningful connections.
Bi-annual Value Awards – because your hard work deserves recognition.
Monthly events – to find balance and bring our team together.
Charitable Fundraising – to give back to our communities.

🧩 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we encourage applications from everyone, and we will ensure fair and accessible recruitment for all. At So Energy, we’re committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We are a global community, and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It’s essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn’t just an initiative at So Energy. We strive to embed it throughout our entire culture.