Principal Consultant - Data Engineering Lead

Intuita - Vacancies; Newbury; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data consultancy in the UK is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to join their team. This position involves providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and managing data engineering projects. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in cloud solutions and team management. The company offers salary ranging from £70,000 to £95,000 and hybrid working arrangements with an emphasis on well-being and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical insurance

Flexible and remote working options

Training and learning opportunities

Supportive and friendly team environment

Qualifications

• Extensive hands‑on experience in a business transformation setting.
• Proven success as a Team Leader managing Data Engineers.
• Experience in building operationally efficient data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Guide and mentor a team of engineers to ensure high quality outcomes.
• Act as technical liaison between engineering teams and clients.
• Establish and enforce data engineering standards and best practices.

Skills

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

Cloud Solutions Development (Azure, GCP, AWS)

Data Modelling (Kimball, 3NF)

CI/CD Pipelines

Agile Methodologies

Education

Relevant Certifications (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS)

Tools

Terraform

Azure Data Factory

BigQuery

DataBricks

Job description

Role: Principal Data Engineer - Team Lead

Salary: £70,000 - up to £95,000 (dependant on experience)

Contracting and Permanent hires considered

🏢 Location: ALL locations considered: We have offices in Liverpool or Newbury office UK for Hybrid working and Sibenik (Croatia)

Let us introduce ourselves

We’re Intuita, a new kind of data partner.

We’re a collective of data-driven people ready to cut through complexity to solve business problems in a human-centric and sustainable. We provide pragmatic end-to-end services, products and technologies combined with straight-talking strategic direction to unlock the true value of data and drive transformational change.

Established in 2011 as a different player to the corporate data world, our ethos is to do the right thing, even if it’s not the easy thing; to build partnerships and relationships based on honesty and transparency; and to prioritise specialist skills and quality above all else. Now as part of the wider FSP Consulting group, we continue with our ambitious growth plans.

📝 The role

We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer on a permanent contract basis, to join our talented Data Engineering team. In this key role, you will work closely with our Engineering Director to support the development of our high-performing team, applying your extensive engineering expertise to drive business growth and lead consultancy-driven projects. This position calls for a leader with a strong combination of hands‑on technical excellence and exceptional leadership skills to steer our teams toward achieving both quality and strategic objectives. Ideally you will have managed a team of engineers with proven success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical direction, support and develop their skills to ensure the highest quality outcomes for our clients.
• Technical Project Ownership: Responsible for the technical direction and execution against critical business transformations, ensuring both sustainability and quality. Working closely with Business Analysts to ensure the technical solution meets 100% of the business needs.
• Client Engagement: Act as the technical liaison between the engineering teams and clients, ensuring client satisfaction through well thought out solutions with longevity in mind.
• Quality Assurance & Best Practice: Establish and enforce data engineering standards, best practice, reusable frameworks. Quality assurance management through data engineering pipelines, ensuring both quality and performance of solutions.
• Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with the latest developments in technology changes within respective field/and or specialism, and proactively engage with wider engineering team on learning opportunities.
• On-Site Engagement: Periodically visit client sites to foster and strengthen relationships, ensuring our commitment to partnership and collaborative success is clearly demonstrated.

🧑 A bit about you

Being a consultant at Intuita means something a little different to being a consultant elsewhere, we like to hire driven characters who share our passion and approach, bringing their style and flare. We see ourselves as trusted partners to our clients and believe in transparency, quality and integrity above all else, always pushing the boundaries to deliver the best outcomes for our clients. We also really value collaboration and teamwork, making sure we work together to solve problems and share learnings as a team.

As a Lead role within our Data Engineering discipline, you’ll share these values but also bring your own personality and approach to the role. We’re looking for someone with the following experience and qualities, but if you don’t fit these exactly and are interested in working for us, get in touch anyway – we hire people, not job specs.

• Extensive hands‑on experience in a business transformation setting, either at enterprise level or in large-scale delivery.
• Proven success as a Team Leader, managing a team of Data Engineers on various projects.
• Proven experience in data engineering and architecture, with a focus on developing scalable cloud solutions in Azure, GCP or AWS.
• Data Modelling using Kimball, 3NF or Dimensional methodologies.
• Analytics Engineering lean, with experience within BigQuery (GCP) with data modelling in DBT and mobile/telecoms industry experience would be beneficial, with deep DBT experience being highly beneficial.
• Depth of knowledge and understanding across core orchestration tools and CI/CD pipelines to enhance development efficiency and deployment effectiveness, including Azure DevOps or GitHub.
• Considerable experience designing and building operationally efficient pipelines, utilising core Cloud components, such as Azure Data Factory, Big Query, AirFlow, Google Cloud Composer and Pyspark etc.
• Proven experience in modelling data through a medallion-based architecture, with curated dimensional models in the gold layer built for analytical use.
• Strong understanding and or use of unity catalog alongside core databricks functionality to drive metadata management.
• Strong understanding of cloud economics, including cost management strategies and optimising solutions for customer needs.
• Experience with infrastructure as code, proficiency using tools such as Terraform to automate and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring both consistency and scalability across environments.
• Certifications in relevant technologies and methodologies, such as certified solutions architect or data engineer credentials from Microsoft Azure, GCP, AWS or Databricks.
• Ability to inspire, lead, and manage a diverse team of data engineers, fostering an environment that promotes professional growth and high performance.
• Experience working withing an Agile delivery team and effectively collaborating with cross functional teams.

Nice to Have:

• Prior experience in a consultancy setting, demonstrating the ability to navigate the unique challenges and dynamics of consulting with various clients and industries.
• Knowledge or specialisation in specific industries such as financial services, telecoms, ecommerce or retail, which can help tailor data solutions more effectively to client needs.
• Experience in building PowerBI semantic models for downstream visualisation consumption.
• Knowledge and or experience in data management tools such as Azure Purview or Collibra, with exposure to data cataloguing, lineage, and data quality standards.

❔ What’s in it for you?

We're not a standard consultancy and neither are our benefits - they are enhanced as we pride ourselves on having a people‑first culture which sets us apart from other consultancies and organisations. You can view more on our Benefits here, but as a further insight on how we look after our people, we offer the following support and opportunities:

💰Salary – it’s important, we know! We are open to a range for this role which would generally cover £75,000 to £95,000 per annum (as a full‑time, pro rata based on hours less than 37.5hr p/w).

🏠 flexible and remote working: most companies say they offer flexible working, but they’ve never experienced flexible working at Intuita. We trust you to work in the way that suits you best and offer flexible hours and part‑time roles to fit your lifestyle. We have UK offices in Newbury, London and Liverpool, which you’re welcome to work from as much as you like; we simply ask that you don’t become isolated – we help in organising a variety of regular social events to ensure we maintain our close‑knit feel.

🧠 Care for your health and wellbeing: we genuinely care about the wellbeing of our team. We offer comprehensive company‑paid medical insurance, free therapy and mental health support via Spill, a team of in‑house Mental Health First Aiders, plus financial education and consultations.

🚀 Incredible training and learning opportunities: our team is full of talented individuals who are genuine experts in what they do. You’ll get to work alongside them and learn from the best, as well as boosting your skills and knowledge with our knowledge sharing sessions, mentoring and company‑paid certifications.

✨ Freedom and empowerment: we allow our consultants to actually be consultants, not just bodies. You’re given the responsibility and accountability to really own problems and are encouraged to explore new directions and opportunities. There are no glass ceilings here and we don’t have salary or promotion review dates – we reward people as and when we see great work!

🧑🤝🧑 A supportive, friendly team: we work hard but enjoy working hard together. We’re a diverse and inclusive team who enjoy silly Slack conversations and regular social events; our relatively flat structure means that everyone has an equal voice.

Our selection process

If you like the sound of Intuita, apply to join us today! Once you have submitted your application, we will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

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