Principal Data Engineer

Made Tech; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy in the UK is seeking a Principal Data Engineer responsible for leading complex client engagements and delivering impactful solutions. This role involves building trusted relationships with public sector clients, managing and mentoring teams, and acting as a technical authority. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data strategies, experience in managing partnerships, and the ability to innovate in various data practices. Benefits include 30 days of leave and a flexible working environment.

Benefits

30 days Holiday

Remote Working

Paid counselling

Qualifications

• Innovative and able to apply unique solutions to public sector challenges.
• Experience in maintaining relationships with senior public sector clients.
• Proven leadership in building successful consulting teams.
• Experience formulating persuasive business proposals and bids.
• Ability to manage partnerships for a seamless client delivery experience.
• Demonstrated success in complex digital and data project delivery.
• Skilled at recognizing and developing opportunities for growth.
• Working knowledge of commercial strategies in tech.
• Strong understanding of data ethics and governance.
• Experience in establishing a data function.
• Expertise in various data architecture approaches.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients to shape effective data solutions.
• Monitor project performance and coach team members.
• Ensure adherence to internal best practices for data delivery.
• Engage in bids and proposals to drive business growth.
• Oversee professional development and performance within teams.
• Act as a thought leader in the public sector domain.

Skills

Ability to innovate

Building trusted advisor relationships

Leading consulting teams

Managing third-party partnerships

Delivering complex engagements

Identifying opportunities

Digital and data strategy shaping

Technical quality accountability

Broad technical knowledge of data practices

Combining data science and analytics

Tools

Apache Spark

Databricks

Hadoop

Python

Scala

R

SQL

AWS

Azure

Job description

Our Principal Data Engineers are responsible for leading and delivering strategically significant, complex client engagements across our portfolio of clients. We believe that great delivery stems from a thorough understanding of our clients and their needs, strong discipline skills and subject matter expertise, excellent leadership and a clear vision of lasting and effective change in a public sector environment. We expect our Principal Data Engineers to bring all of that and enthuse our delivery teams with the same passion. 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• While this is not a hands‑on coding technical role, the importance of credibility in approach to digital, data and technology in the public sector cannot be understated. You will be expected to maintain a broad technical knowledge of modern data practices, be able to shape data strategy and roadmaps, and hold others to account for technical quality.
• 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 – we value keen learners, an increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we’re looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility. Eligibility for SC requires 5 years’ of continuous UK residency. Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won’t be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.

Eligibility

Eligibility for SC requires 5 years’ of continuous UK residency. Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won’t be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.

Benefits and Application Support

When you apply, we’ll put you in touch with a talent partner who can help with any needs or adjustments we may need to make to help with your application. This includes alternative formats for documents, the time allotted for interviews and any other needs. We also welcome any feedback on how we can improve the experience for future candidates.

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Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below:

• 30 days Holiday – we offer 30 days of paid annual leave + bank holidays!
• Remote Working – we offer part time remote working for all our staff.
• Paid counselling – we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.