Job descriptionWe are currently seeking a Data Engineer for our international and diverse Climate Policy Team (CPT).
The team is engaged in various projects on climate change mitigation, in particular on energy system transformation, the 1.
5°C global warming limit and the evaluation of national climate action.
This includes flagship projects, such as the Climate Action Tracker and the National Pathways Explorer, for which data is being processed and analysed in-house and then published on the respective project websites.
As a Data Engineer you will play a critical role in designing, building and maintaining our data infrastructure, ensuring efficient and accurate data processing, storage and retrieval.
Your ResponsibilitiesYou will help to build and maintain a data platform for advanced analytics and climate modelling, spanning data science and data engineering work.
Contribute to the full lifecycle of data platform development from design and deployment to continuous improvementStrengthen data pipelines reliability, observability, and automation through code and tooling improvements.
Relevant Tech SkillsPlease note that this list is non exhaustive and that if you don’t have experience on some of those you should still apply.
Required:PythonSQLPostgreSQLObject storage (like S3/Minio)Containers (like Docker)GitCI/CD principlesNice to have:Pandas/Polar/DuckDB or other framework for data processingCondaMonitoring tools (like Prometheus, Grafana and Elasticsearch)Infrastructure as code tool (like Terraform or Ansible)AI‑driven productivity toolsYour profileYou.