Principal Data Engineer

Elsevier; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global information and analytics leader is looking for a Principal Data Engineer to join their innovative team. In this role, you will design, prototype, and build scalable applications while working with technologies such as Python and Java. You will also create data pipelines and build cloud infrastructure in AWS, ensuring that solutions deliver real value to clients. The ideal candidate should have strong commercial software engineering experience, a collaborative mindset, and excellent programming skills.

Benefits

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Home, office, or commuting allowance

Generous vacation entitlement

Flexible working hours

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Strong commercial software engineering experience delivering server-side applications.
• Excellent programming skills with Java and Python.
• Comfortable learning new technologies and tools on the job.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust and scalable applications following best practices.
• Create data pipelines for bulk data ingestion.
• Build cloud infrastructure in AWS to host services.

Skills

Commercial software engineering experience

ETL

Spark

Airflow

Java programming

Python programming

Collaborative mindset

Tools

AWS

Data Lake

Delta Lake

Iceberg

Job description

Principal Data Engineer

Aboutthe team:

The Search and AI Platform is Elsevier’s agentic data platform, which powers products such as Scopus, ScienceDirect, and our next-generation LLM-powered research systems.

The platform utilises agentic services to interrogate our rich knowledge graphs, search and recommendation systems, and our unparalleled collection of research data, delivering insights to the scientific community that enable them to collaborate more effectively, work smarter, and produce high-quality research more efficiently.

Aboutthe role:

We are seeking an innovative and passionate principal data engineer to collaborate with our teams in building and enhancing our platform, delivering intelligent and scalable solutions that create real value for our clients.

Keyresponsibilities:

• Designing, prototyping, and building robust and scalable applications, following clean code, secure and best-practice software engineering principles.
• Working with technologies including Python, Java (Spring Boot), Spark, Airflow, and various database technologies like search, graph, RDBMS and key value stores.
• Creating data pipelines (ELT and ETL) for bulk data ingestion into various database systems, ensuring scalability, cost and performance optimisation.
• Working with data engineering and warehousing technologies like Data Lake, Delta Lake, Iceberg and similar standards.
• Generating embeddings for ingestion with the latest models at scale.
• Building cloud infrastructure in AWS to host and monitor the services, automating common tasks.

Requirements:

• A passionate engineer with strong commercial software engineering experience delivering server-side applications.
• Good experience in ETL, Spark, Airflow
• Experience in Database systems.
• Excellent programming skills with Java and Python
• An advocate of best-practices for rapid development of quality software, including clean code, architectural design patterns, CI/CD
• Comfortable learning new technologies, languages, and tools on the job, to ensure that the product is not left behind in a rapidly evolving ecosystem
• An inclusive, positive, collaborative mindset and a desire to deliver real business value to our customers

Nice to have -

• An inclusive, positive, collaborative mindset and a desire to deliver real business value to our customers

Whyjoinus?

Join our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you

We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Home, office, or commuting allowance.
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Flexible working hours
• Personal Choice budget
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Employee Assistance Program (global)

Aboutthe business –

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, healtheducation,and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

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