Principal Data Engineering Consultant - Remote

Fynity
London
3 months ago
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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, data modelling, 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:

Leading projects and solution delivery
Engaging with customer stakeholders and building strong relationships
Building and implementing technical data solutions 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 Senior/Principal Data Engineer who has a track record of leading the design and delivery of data projects.

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

You will be able to evidence where you have led the delivery of data solutions, manged projects and mentored or overseen the work of 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 strength in some or all of:

MS Fabric stack
Databricks
Snowflake
Azure / AWS
SQL
Tableau / Power BI

You will need top be technically very good with skills in data modelling and will bring a good knowledge of general IT architecture and systems integration. 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 is not essential.

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

What is on offer?
A competitive salary of £70,000-£80,000 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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