Principal Data Engineer Job at Made Tech (Bristol)

Job Description

Our Principal Data Engineers are responsible for leading and delivering strategically significant, complex client engagements across our portfolio of clients. The successful candidate will lead the Data Engineering aspects of our client engagements while overseeing the wider delivery within the account (or industry) when appropriate. They will coach and develop team members on their engagements providing them with detailed performance feedback, as well as monitoring overall delivery to achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction. In addition, our Principal Data Engineers are responsible for engaging with our clients to understand their challenges and build lasting, trusted advisor relationships. They will also oversee multiple, concurrent client deliveries to help ensure quality and drive the sharing of best practice across our engagements and industries.

Job Responsibility

Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, provide solution advice in your role as a trusted advisor and shape solutions that leverage Made Tech's wider capabilities and credentials
Assess project performance as a part of the billable delivery team, Quality Assure (QA) the deliverables and outcomes, and ensure client satisfaction. Coach and mentor team members as well as providing direction to enable them to achieve their engagement outcomes and to develop their careers
Act as a Technical Authority of the Data & AI capability to provide oversight and ensure alignment with internal and industry best practices. Ensure engagement experience is captured and used to improve standards and contribute to Made Tech knowledge
Participate in business development activities, including bids and pre-sales within the account, industry and practice. Coach team members on their contributions and oversee the relevant technical aspects of the proposal submission
Undertake people management responsibilities, including performance reviews and professional development of your engagement and practice colleagues
Serve as a thought leader within Made Tech, our account engagements and the wider public sector and represent the company at industry events

Requirements

Understanding of the issues and challenges that the public sector faces in delivering services that make the best use of data and digital capabilities, transforming legacy infrastructure, and taking an innovative and user-centric approach
Ability to innovate and take learnings from the commercial sector, other countries and advances in technology and apply them to UK Public Sector challenges to create tangible solutions for our clients
Experience building trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders within the public sector.
Experience of building and leading high performing, consulting teams and creating the leveraged engagements to provide a cost-effective, profitable, successful client-facing delivery
Leadership of bids and solution shaping to produce compelling proposals that help Made Tech win new business and grow the industry
Experience of managing third-party partnerships and suppliers (in conjunction with Made Tech colleagues) to provide a consolidated and seamless delivery team to clients.
Experience in delivering complex and difficult engagements that span multiple capabilities for user-facing digital and data services in the public sector
Experience in identifying opportunities based on client needs and developing targeted solutions to progress the development of the opportunity
Experience of working with sales professionals and commercial responsibility for strategic organisational goals.
Experience working directly with customers and users within a technology consultancy
Expertise in shaping data strategy and approaches to quality, ethics and governance.
Experience in developing a data capability or function
Combining data science, analytics and engineering
Strong understanding of various architectures including data warehouses, data lakes, data lake houses and data mesh
Strong understanding of best practice DataOps and MLOps
Up-to-date understanding of various data engineering technologies including Apache Spark, Databricks and Hadoop
Strong understanding of agile ways of working
Up-to-date understanding of various programming languages including Python, Scala, R and SQL
Up-to-date understanding of various databases and cloud-based datastores including SQL and NoSQL
Up-to-date understanding of cloud platforms including AWS and/or Azure and their data offerings
Evidence of self-development
Eligibility for SC (security check) clearance
5 years' of continuous UK residency

What we offer

30 days of paid annual leave + bank holidays
Flexible Parental Leave
Remote Working
Paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice
Flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan
Optional social and wellbeing calendar of events

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