Data Engineering Consultant

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a data engineer to design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines as part of its Infrastructure Digital - Data and Analytics services. You will collaborate with developers, managers and stakeholders to translate requirements into effective data solutions using cloud technologies.

The role emphasizes data quality, automation, and cross-functional collaboration, with mentoring and knowledge-sharing to drive team performance.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to design, build and maintain scalable data pipelines.
• Ability to translate end-user requirements into data solutions and plans.
• Experience with cloud-based data architectures and warehousing approaches.

Responsibilities

• Work with developers, managers, and stakeholders to map the data landscape to the data strategy.
• Translate requirements into designs and delivery plans for data solutions.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated data pipelines using cloud technologies.
• Analyse and resolve data quality issues and ensure robust data workflows.
• Maintain infrastructure as part of a data and analytics delivery team.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and promote them across the team.
• Mentor and develop others, fostering an inclusive culture of service excellence.
• Translate knowledge into new ideas or solutions and contribute to documentation.

Skills

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake

Azure Synapse

SQL

Python

Spark

DAX

CI/CD

Git

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference – we are committed to delivering Sustainable Net Zero outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious Net Zero programmes from over 110 offices worldwide.

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference – we are committed to delivering Sustainable Net Zero outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious Net Zero programmes from over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

Due to growing demand for our Infrastructure Digital - Data and Analytics services, we are seeking to recruit a data engineer with excellent technical knowledge of designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines that will enable our clients to extract value from their data assets.

The Role

As part of the role you will:

• Work with developers, managers, and business stakeholders to understand and define components of the data landscape and how it relates to the data strategy
• Understand and translate end-user requirements into designs and delivery plans for effective data solutions
• Design, develop, execute, and maintain highly automated data pipelines using cloud technologies
• Analyse and resolve data quality issues
• Build, maintain, and support data workflows and the necessary infrastructure as part of a data and analytics delivery team
• Identify opportunities for improvement and promote theses through the team
• Actively mentor and develop others in the team and inspire them through commitment and enthusiasm
• Foster and demonstrate an inclusive team culture focusing on service excellence and exceptional performance
• Take knowledge or experience and translate into new ideas or solutions
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of T&Ts documentation and processes

Qualifications

• Skills required for this role are:
• Proven ability to work with with:
• Databricks
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Data Lake
• Azure Synapse (and data warehousing approaches) or SSIS
• Azure Analysis Services
• Experience in programming languages such as:
• SQL
• Python
• Spark
• DAX
• A good understanding of Devops practices:
• CI/CD (Azure DevOps preferable)
• GIT and Version Control
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal – able to translate complex technical subject matter into easily understood presentations and written documentation for mixed technical audiences.

Desirable

• MLFlow and other MLOps / Machine Learning Engineering processes to support advanced analytical use cases
• Data modelling including Kimball
• Container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience translating designs of Azure data solutions into action
• Analysis/requirements gathering, solution design, and implementation of data platform and Azure technologies
• Experience in collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams, including software engineers, DevOps and infrastructure teams, data scientists etc.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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