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Data Engineer

Consultancy.uk
Manchester
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Firm PA Consulting

Location Manchester, United Kingdom

Benefits Competitive

Functional areas Data Science

Apply Suite 1A 1st Floor York House York Street Manchester M2 3BB United Kingdom, Manchester M2 3BB, GB

Employment type Full-time


About the Company

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists with deep expertise across multiple sectors. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.


Job Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.


Why consider joining our Digital & Data community

  • Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions.
  • Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track.
  • Hybrid working - be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week.
  • Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors.
  • Join a supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge-sharing, coaching and mentoring.
  • Deepen your expertise through a culture of learning and growth with a budget for courses and certifications.

Our Tech Stack

We use the right tech for the task. Expect to work with AWS for ETL pipelines, data warehouse and data lake design/building, and data movement. AWS data and analytics services (or open-source equivalents) such as EMR, Glue, RedShift, Kinesis, Lambda, DynamoDB.


What You Can Expect

  • Work to agile best practices and collaborate with multiple teams and stakeholders; apply technical skills to solve client problems as well as internal projects.
  • Live in-person whiteboarding sessions to problem solve as a team, alongside asynchronous communication on Teams.
  • Hybrid working with client site or office a minimum of two days per week; actual time spent may vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on client site.
  • Supportive environment that values its stated values and delivers transformative digital solutions.
  • Designing and building for the AWS cloud.

Qualifications

Essential requirements


Even if you don’t meet every requirement below, feel free to still apply as we are often hiring for similar roles which your background might be better suited to.



  • You thrive in problem-solving and analytical thinking
  • You enjoy collaborating with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience in the design and deployment of production data pipelines from ingestion to consumption within a big data architecture, using Java, Python, Scala, Spark, SQL
  • Experience performing tasks such as writing scripts, extracting data using APIs, writing SQL queries
  • Experience in processing large amounts of structured and unstructured data, including integrating data from multiple sources through ingestion and curation functions on AWS cloud using AWS native or custom programming

Assessment process

Please note that the interview stages may be subject to change based on the specific requirements of the role.



  • Quick call with one of our Tech Recruiters to discuss your application, the role and PA
  • Round 1: Either a competency or technical interview (60 mins)
  • Round 2: Either a competency or technical interview, whichever you didn’t do at first round (60 mins)
  • Final round: Meeting with a PA leader - a mini case study and discussion around your client-centricity (60 mins)

Life at PA encompasses our people’s experience at PA. It’s about how we enrich people’s working lives by giving access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose-led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with clients and teams, and support our communities to deliver insight and impact.


Benefits

  • Health and lifestyle perks with private healthcare for you and your family
  • 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with option to buy 5 additional days
  • Generous company pension scheme
  • Opportunity to get involved with community and charity initiatives
  • Annual performance-based bonus
  • PA share ownership
  • Tax-efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to age, background, disability, or any other form of human difference. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.


Adjustments or accommodations – If you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, please contact


Job information

Firm: PA Consulting


Location: Manchester, United Kingdom



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