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Principal Data Engineering Consultant

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Principal Data Engineering Consultant

Principal Data Engineering Consultant required to join the high-performing, busy Data & Insights practice of a boutique consultancy.

This is a superb opportunity to lead and apply your data engineering skills across a variety of client projects.

Day-to-Day

As a Principal Data Engineering Consultant, you will utilise your functional and hands-on technical data engineering skills to implement end-to-end reporting, analytics and data solutions for a variety of different customers, from large enterprises to small start-ups.

You will lead exciting and complex projects that vary in size and complexity, and you will take ownership of deliveries; gathering requirements, understanding business problems, designing and building solutions, reporting and analysis through to go-live and training.

This role will provide you with plenty of opportunities to flex your data skills to help harness solutions and solve problems, and you will get to see the fruits of your labour and the impact the deliveries have on the client.

You will be responsible for:

  • Engaging with customer stakeholders and building strong relationships
  • Building and implementing technical data solutions for customers using a variety of different data tools and platforms
  • Consulting with clients on the best approach and most suitable data technologies
  • Technical project leadership, requirements gathering, delivery and documentation
  • Using your hands-on technical skills to write code and build solutions
  • Managing and mentoring junior consultants on deliveries

You will need

You will be a Technical Data Consultant or Data Engineer who has a track record of leading the design and delivery of data solutions.

You will bring a strong blend of technical and functional experience and will have previously operated within a client-facing environment.

You will be able to evidence where you have led the delivery of data solutions, managing projects and mentoring or overseeing the work of more junior colleagues.

You will need to possess a hands-on technical skillset spanning data engineering, data integration and data migration. You will be adaptable and able to work with different tools and technologies, depending on the client and project needs but will ideally possess stength in:

  • MS Fabric stack
  • Databricks
  • Azure
  • SQL
  • Tableau / Power BI

A knowledge of data modelling and of general IT architecture and systems integration is also required. Other technologies such as Azure Data Factory, RedShift, Informatica, Qlik or similar are also useful, and you will be open-minded to learning new skills. Experience in Oracle OBIEE and/or Oracle Analytics Cloud is also desirable but not essential.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage and manage client stakeholders is also required.

What is on offer?

A competitive salary of £70,000-£85,000 is on offer (depending on your level of experience) as well as an annual bonus of £5k-£7k (paid quarterly), private medical, pension (up to 5% matched) and other perks such as a mobile phone allowance.

This is a hybrid role that offers lots of flexibility to work remotely, but visits to the office in Surrey are required roughly once a week (some weeks less, some weeks more, with possible visits to client sites if requested)

This consultancy has big ambitions to grow, so if you are a Principal Data Engineering Consultant and want to work alongside some of the industry’s best on some exciting client projects, then this could be the challenge you are seeking!


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