Look around you when you’re on the road. There are still way too few electrically powered vehicles driving around. If we want to make real environmental change, we must operate on a wider scale. That’s about to happen.
How is this going to change?
Did you notice that all across Europe, charging stations are installed for every car user with an electric engine? One can’t miss that everyone is preparing for the time when no car has a fuel engine anymore. But we’re missing out on a major part of road users, that still use old-fashioned gas engines. The facilities are running behind: not every vehicle can charge conveniently on a long trip.
This brand-new organization is specifically established to fix that problem. From their base in the Netherlands, their mission is to accelerate the transition to zero-emission vehicles in Europe. They realize that by building and managing reliable and secure high-performance charging solutions, specified per type of vehicle. With some huge investments and collaboration from a few brands, this is the future of electrical driving.
Finally! Something we need. What do they need me for?
You will be leading the set-up of a cloud-native data platform that is secure, compliant, automated, scalable and resilient. The team implements proper data governance, integrations, pipelines, data cleansing and automatic data quality measurements thanks to you. As the Senior Data Engineer of the data platform, you’re directly responsible for getting the most out of the experts they have.
That’s a big challenge, but I think I can do this
With your experience, you can. You’re able to act as a Senior Data Engineer within a rapidly growing team. With a clear vision of data architecture, you are able to create a design for this IT landscape and implement that as well. You need the drive to help electrical driving grow, with a passion for EV and transport. But as their Data Engineer, you need to know more about modern data architectures based on Azure solutions than about electrical driving.
That’s my thing. Will I earn enough to have my own charging station?
If you really want that, it’s possible. Your salary won’t be a problem. That will end up as a nice hourly rate between €80 and €90.