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Your new roleAs Principal Data Engineer, you'll join a collaborative and agile data engineering team where you'll take responsibility for all aspects of data engineering while working with peers to ensure the efficient and sustainable function of the team. You'll be working in a team that organises as generalists to encourage sharing of projects, knowledge, and technical skills. The team maintains a large codebase of cloud-deployed, serverless data pipelines written to high software engineering standards. Your responsibilities will include:
- Working with stakeholders and delivery managers to build and deliver data services
- Collaborating with peers to build and maintain effective data engineering capability
- Producing roadmaps and architecting data flows to contribute to engineering solutions
- Ensuring reliability and performance of data engineering pipelines
- Modelling and building data storage solutions for various data types
- Leading on code quality and documentation standards
- Sharing technical expertise with members of the data engineering team
- Providing line management and mentoring to junior team members, helping prioritise their workload
What you'll need to succeed
- Proven track record of successfully delivering multiple resilient and scalable data pipelines
- Experience working with stakeholders to understand and translate requirements
- Proficiency with cloud technologies such as AWS/Azure/GCP
- Excellent programming ability, ideally in Python, along with programming best practices
- Experience with tools and techniques such as SQL, various database types, data formats, and data modelling
- Demonstrable experience of pipeline logging, usage tracking, and cost monitoring
- Previous experience deploying analytical/machine learning tools for users
- Experience leading a team or multiple projects and supporting team members in workload prioritisation and development
What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
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