Principal Data Engineer

UCL; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

41 Days holiday

Annual leave purchase scheme

CARE pension

Cycle to work scheme

Relocation scheme

On-Site nursery

On-site gym

Maternity/paternity/adoption pay

Employee assistance programme

Discounted medical insurance

Job summary

UCL is modernising its technology foundations to transform the experience for students and staff. The Principal Data Engineer is the key technical lead in the Data Enabling team, responsible for designing, developing and implementing data flows and integrations that connect operational systems, data for analytics and BI across the university.

In a matrix, agile environment you will collaborate with the Platform Owner and senior stakeholders to deliver scalable data solutions, on-premises and in

Qualifications

• A proven track record leading a Data Enabling/Transformation team in a matrix agile environment.
• Experience delivering data flows connecting operational systems to analytics and BI at scale.
• Expertise in on-premise and cloud data integration with data modelling concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead technically the Data Enabling team in a matrix agile environment.
• Collaborate with Platform Owner and senior stakeholders to identify and implement data solutions.
• Design and implement data flows and integrations linking operational systems, analytics and BI.
• Support data governance and quality initiatives.

Skills

Data engineering

Data integration

API integration

DevOps CI/CD

Data governance

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Data modelling

Tools

FiveTran

Copilot Studio

Fabric

AWS

Azure

Job description

About us

We are modernising our technology foundations, digitising the processes of the university to transform experience for students and staff, and partnering across the university to drive differentiation in UCL education and research. IT Service and Operations manages the infrastructure and data platforms which underpin UCL's central IT services, including data centres, cloud compute and storage platforms, networks, telephony, communications and collaboration and enterprise applications. In addition, IT Service and Operations provides an End-to-end Service Management capability, ensuring UCL's IT services are relevant, responsive and resilient.

About the role

A carefully managed Data Asset is critical to UCL's vision. The Principal Data Engineer is the key Technical lead in the Data Enabling team and plays an essential role in designing, developing and implementing data flows and Integrations to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems.

Working closely with the Platform Owner, architecture and other senior stakeholders to identify and implement solutions to numerous data flows that are strategically aligned

About you

You will be experienced in Technically leading a Data Enabling / Transformation team in a matrix agile environment. Your track record will be to have delivered exceptional results by working with a wide range of stakeholders, coupled with experience in service management, user experience, and a healthy growth mindset.

You need to have previous in-depth industry knowledge and experience of implementing and supporting Data integration, flows and transformations both on-premise and ideally Cloud (FiveTran, AWS, Azure) in a large scale and complex organisation. You also understand the concepts and principles of data modelling and recognise opportunities for re-use and alignment between services and products.

Technically, you will also require good exposure across Fabric, Copilot studio, data engineering, advanced analytics using data science concepts, API integration, DevOps Ci/CD, data governance and quality.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance Visit

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we wantour community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We arecommitted to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to beunderrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include peoplefrom Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+people, and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women