Senior Data Engineering Consultant

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Senior Data Engineering Consultant

This leading boutique Data & Insights Consultancy are going from strength to strength and are seeking a Senior Data Engineering Consultant to join their high-performing team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to apply your strong hands-on data engineering skills across a wide variety of challenging projects, and deliver value-adding data and analytics solutions that make a true business impact.

Role & Responsibilities

This Data & Insights practice is made up of some of the most competent and highly skilled data professionals in the market, and you will get the opportunity to work with and learn from some of the best.

As a Senior 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 get to work on and 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. You will have plenty of opportunity to flex your broad, hands-on, data skills to help harness solutions and solve problems, and you will have the opportunity to witness the change and impact your work has on the client.

Responsibilities will include:

Building and implementing technical data solutions for customers using a variety of different data tools and platforms
Consulting with clients on approach, and suitable technologies
Technical project leadership, requirements gathering, delivery and documentation
Writing code and building solutions
Managing junior consultants on deliveries 

What is required?

To be considered, you will be a Technical Data Consultant or Data Engineer who has a track record of delivering data solutions, ideally in a client facing consultancy environment.

You will have a strong hands-on technical skillset spanning data engineering, data integration and data migration and will be adaptable, able to work with different tools and technologies, depending upon the client and project needs.

You will possess strong stakeholder engagement and management skills and will be able to evidence where you have led or at least played a key role in the delivery of data solutions, managing projects and mentoring or overseeing the work of more junior colleagues.

You will bring experience in designing data solutions, writing code, and documentation, and must have strong skills in tools including but not limited to:

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 tech curious, keen and open-minded to learning new skills. Experience in Oracle OBIEE and/or Oracle Analytics Cloud is desirable.

A self-starter, you will also need excellent communication and presentation skills.

Rewards

A competitive salary of £60,000-£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 once pweek (as well as occasional visits to the office in London Bridge).

This consultancy has big ambitions to grow, so if you are a Senior 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!

If you are interested please apply ASAP. The People Network is an employment agency and will respond to all applicants within three - five working days. If you do not hear within these timescales please feel free to get in touch

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