Data Engineer - Meteo Team
Leiden
Join our Meteo Team as a Data Engineer and help build and optimize weather-driven forecasting pipelines across on-premise and Azure environments. You’ll work closely with experts across trading, data science, and meteorology to solve complex data challenges with real-world impact. Take the challenge and become a Data Engineer - Meteo Team at Northpool!
Grasp the opportunity
As a Data Engineer for the Meteo Team, you will play a key role in developing, maintaining, and optimizing our weather-based forecasting processes running both on-premise and in Azure. Working closely with colleagues from trading, data science, meteorology, and frontend development, you’ll contribute to the continuous improvement of our systems for data assimilation, delivery, and monitoring. We’re looking for a proactive team player who can build reliable, performant systems and solve technical challenges with an interest in meteorological and/or geographical databases.
Your goal? Providing fast and highly reliable systems for collecting and transforming meteorological data – to be used in our power models, dashboards, and other tools for traders to use in real-time.
Key responsibilities
- To ensure a single, reliable source of meteorological data for the various trading desks within the company.
- Scraping, preprocessing, and archiving numerical weather predictions, live weather observations, satellite images, netCDF gridded data, timeseries, and any other meteorological data.
- Making data available through Snowflake, Kafka, and Postgres
- Writing backend APIs for frontend applications
We ask
- BSc. or MSc. in Computer Science
- Proficiency in Python and SQL
- 1-3 years of working experience in relevant roles
- A flexible work mentality
We like
- Experience with meteorological data, in particular numerical weather predictions.
- Experience in CI/CD (local and cloud) in a collaborative environment.
- Interest in trading
- Creative, proactive thinking
- A fast learner
We offer
- Continuous learning and development opportunities
- Competitive compensation package
- Annual performance-based bonus
- A non-hierarchical workplace
- Young and highly motivated teammates
- A fun workplace, where no two days are ever the same
- Plenty of social events!
Want to see if this is your next challenge? Send your resume with your motivation to careers@northpool.nl.
Location: For this vacancy, we need you to live in the Netherlands. The application procedure will take place at our office in Leiden.
Acquisition based on this vacancy is not appreciated.