Principal Data Engineer

Job Description

About The Role

We are recruiting for a Principal Data Engineer to join our team. Principal Data Engineers work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.

Our Principal Data Engineers are experts in their field. You will act as a principal consultant providing technical expertise in data engineering practices both internally and to our clients. You will drive the team's technical deliverables, maintain client relationships and be passionate about developing and upskilling others.

Your role in nutshell:

• Act as a technical SME within our engineering community to produce and ensure user-centred software is developed based on business requirements and following best practice
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to explore, design and deliver solutions to client problems
• Maintain client relationships and troubleshoot issues through collaboration
• Design and manage software development and deployment pipelines resolving issues and potential bottlenecks before they occur
• Continuously reviews and prioritises the delivery teams workload and can anticipate the need for realignment with evolving operational prioritise and complex work-streams and assignments
• Be a strong communicator and presenter, presenting prototypes, solutions and progress to internal/external stakeholders in a clear concise manner
• Build great relationships with your team and stakeholders, identifying and ensuring that challenges are overcome
• Lead in the recruitment of other engineers, and support other consultants in their professional development
• Ensure our Data and Engineering communities contribute to our business at a strategic level
• Lead on new business opportunities, writing technical bids and proposals
• Promote our Data team externally (for example through writing Blogs, Workshops, Seminars or Conferences)

About the Candidate:

• Excellent experience delivering in Python and experience with at least one other core language
• Excellent experience of SQL and relational databases. NoSQL databases is also desirable.
• Solid experience of at least one Cloud provider such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience of working in a Consultancy environment as well as working with/in the Public Sector.
• Strong experience of working with different data formats, e.g., CSV, JSON and XML
• Building reliable Data Pipelines
• Broader knowledge of IT — e.g., Security and Networking
• Working in an Agile Environment
• Test-Driven Development and/or Behaviour Driven Development
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• Experience of operating as a technical leader on complex projects and able to manage stakeholder expectations and influencing decisions
• Coaching and guiding others on the best way to achieve an optimal solution
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, able to articulate in both technical/non-technical terms depending on audience
• Technical leadership and/or mentoring
• Define working procedures and methodologies for the team