Principal Consultant - Data Engineering (DBT)

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Role: Principal Data Engineer (DBT lean)

Contracting and Permanent hires considered

Location: ALL locations considered: We have offices in Liverpool or Newbury office UK for Hybrid working and Sibenik (Croatia)

Let us introduce ourselves

We\'re Intuita, a new kind of data partner. We\'re a collective of data-driven people ready to cut through complexity to solve business problems in a human-centric and sustainable way. We provide pragmatic end-to-end services, products and technologies combined with straight-talking strategic direction to unlock the true value of data and drive transformational change.

Established in 2011 as a different player to the corporate data world, our ethos is to do the right thing, even if it\'s not the easy thing; to build partnerships and relationships based on honesty and transparency; and to prioritise specialist skills and quality above all else.

The role

We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer ideally on a permanent contract basis, to join our talented Data Engineering team. In this key role, you will work closely with our Engineering Director to support the development of our high-performing team, applying your extensive engineering expertise to drive business growth and lead consultancy-driven projects. This position calls for a leader with a strong combination of hands-on technical excellence and exceptional leadership skills to steer our teams toward achieving both quality and strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

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• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical direction, support and develop their skills to ensure the highest quality outcomes for our clients.
  
• Technical Project Ownership: Responsible for the technical direction and execution against critical business transformations, ensuring both sustainability and quality. Working closely with Business Analysts to ensure the technical solution meets 100% of the business needs.
  
• Client Engagement: Act as the technical liaison between the engineering teams and clients, ensuring client satisfaction through well thought out solutions with longevity in mind.
  
• Quality Assurance & Best Practice: Establish and enforce data engineering standards, best practice, reusable frameworks. Quality assurance management through data engineering pipelines, ensuring both quality and performance of solutions.
  
• Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with the latest developments in technology changes within respective field/and or specialism, and proactively engage with wider engineering team on learning opportunities.
  
• On-Site Engagement: Periodically visit client sites to foster and strengthen relationships, ensuring our commitment to partnership and collaborative success is clearly demonstrated.
  

Becoming a consultant at Intuita means bringing your own personality and approach while upholding our values of transparency, quality and integrity, collaboration and teamwork, and a commitment to solving problems together and sharing learnings as a team. As a Lead within our Data Engineering discipline, we expect you to inspire, lead and manage a diverse team of data engineers and to operate within an Agile delivery environment.

Qualifications & Experience

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• Extensive hands-on experience in a business transformation setting, either at enterprise level or in large-scale delivery.
  
• Proven experience in data engineering and architecture, with a focus on developing scalable cloud solutions in Azure, GCP or AWS.
  
• Data Modelling using Kimball, 3NF or Dimensional methodologies
  
• Analytics Engineering lean, with experience within BigQuery (GCP) with data modelling in DBT and mobile/telecoms industry experience would be beneficial, with deep DBT experience being highly beneficial
  
• Depth of knowledge across core orchestration tools and CI/CD pipelines to enhance development efficiency and deployment effectiveness, including Azure DevOps or GitHub
  
• Experience designing and building operationally efficient pipelines using core Cloud components (Azure Data Factory, BigQuery, AirFlow, Google Cloud Composer, PySpark, etc.)
  
• Proven experience in modelling data through a medallion-based architecture with curated dimensional models in the gold layer for analytics
  
• Strong understanding and/or use of Unity Catalog alongside core Databricks functionality to drive metadata management
  
• Understanding of cloud economics, cost management strategies and optimizing solutions for customer needs
  
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform) to automate and manage cloud infrastructure
  
• Certifications in relevant technologies (e.g., Solutions Architect or Data Engineer from Azure, GCP, AWS or Databricks)
  
• Ability to inspire, lead and manage a diverse team of data engineers
  
• Experience working within an Agile delivery team and collaborating with cross-functional teams
  

Nice to Have:

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• Prior experience in a consultancy setting and the ability to navigate consulting with various clients and industries.
  
• Knowledge in industries such as financial services, telecoms, ecommerce or retail
  
• Experience building PowerBI semantic models for downstream visualization
  
• Knowledge of data management tools such as Azure Purview or Collibra (data cataloguing, lineage, data quality)
  

We have a strong ethos of accountability, quality and integrity at Intuita, and value collaboration and teamwork while enjoying the journey. We also offer flexible and remote working, with UK offices in Newbury, London and Liverpool you can work from as much as you like.

What\'s in it for you?

We are not a standard consultancy and our benefits reflect a people-first culture. Highlights include:

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• Salary: generally £75,000 to £95,000 per annum, full-time salary, pro rata for hours less than 37.5 per week.
  
• Flexible and remote working: flexible hours and part-time roles to fit your lifestyle; options for UK offices when desired; regular social events to maintain a close-knit feel.
  
• Health and wellbeing: company-paid medical insurance, access to therapy and mental health support, and financial education.
  
• Training and learning: access to knowledge sharing, mentoring and company-paid certifications.
  
• Freedom and empowerment: ownership of problems and opportunities, with no glass ceilings and flexible reward for great work.
  
• Supportive, friendly team: diverse, inclusive environment with an informal culture and equal voice.
  

Our selection process

If you like the sound of Intuita, apply to join us today. We will be in touch; timing varies with application volume. For support with your application, please contact

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• Mid-Senior level
  

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• Full-time
  

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• Non-profit Organizations and Primary and Secondary Education
  

Oxford, Reading, Newbury and other UK locations are listed as example postings; contact us for current openings.

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