Productivity Data Engineer & Strategist

Cisco Systems; London Borough of Hounslow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Cisco Systems is seeking a senior data & AI analytics specialist to shape data architecture and governance across large datasets. You’ll lead data modeling, pipelines, and BI insights while guiding security-conscious teams in a global, agile setting.

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to translate complex data into trustworthy dashboards and AI-enabled analytics solutions, ensuring privacy and governance standards are embedded in all projects.

Qualifications

• Education & experience as specified (Bachelor’s with 7+ years, Master’s with 4+ years, or Ph.D. with 1+ year).
• Proficiency in enterprise data modeling (dimensional, relational, NoSQL) and robust data warehouses/data lakes.
• Proficiency in core programming/querying languages for data orchestration and analytics (Python, SQL, dbt, Snowflake).
• Strong communication and strategic planning skills with a hands-on execution mindset.
• Experience delivering data pipelines with data quality and governance in mind.

Responsibilities

• Data Architecture: design and implement architectures to store, process, analyze, and visualize large datasets.
• Governance & Compliance: enforce data governance, data quality, and privacy standards including GDPR considerations.
• Technical Guidance: advise peers on database and data lake sources, and security requirements (RBAC/ABAC, data masking).
• Insights & BI: translate data into actionable insights using BI tools (Tableau/Power BI) and build organization-wide dashboards.
• Collaboration: work with engineers and stakeholders to understand and resolve business problems with privacy and security in mind.
• AI-Enabled Analytics: design semantic models and datasets for reliable NLP/AI-assisted BI using Power BI Copilot/Tableau etc.

Skills

Data Modeling

Data Pipelines

Communication

Strategic Planning

Execution

Education

Bachelor’s degree + 7+ years

Master’s degree + 4+ years

Ph.D. + 1+ year

Tools

Python

SQL

dbt

Snowflake

Job description

Meet the Team

Join the Workforce Productivity Applications team within Cisco IT, where we support all third-party enterprise applications. Our team manages enterprise platforms while leveraging artificial intelligence and creativity to deliver best-in-class IT productivity solutions. We focus on reducing friction, increasing automation, and mitigating security risk in a dynamic, global Agile environment alongside innovative colleagues. Be part of an exciting role evolution from data scientist and machine learning engineer to AI engineer.

Your Impact

• Data Architecture: Develop and implement data architecture to store, process, analyze, and visualize large, high-volume datasets.

• Governance & Compliance: Establish and enforce data governance frameworks, data quality standards, and privacy compliance—including regional requirements such as GDPR and country-specific legislation such as workers councils.

• Technical Guidance: Guide technical peers on database and data lake sources, as well as security requirements such as RBAC/ABAC, row- and column-level security, masking/tokenization, key management, PII classification

• Insights & BI: Translate complex data structures into actionable insights using Business Intelligence and analytics tools such as Tableau or Power BI including building organization-wide dashboards for tracking measurements, usage and KPI's for email, SaaS applications, and productivity suites.

• Collaboration: Collaborate with engineers and business stakeholders to understand, articulate, and resolve business problems, alongside related security and privacy concerns.

• AI-Enabled Analytics: Design semantic models and certified datasets that make natural-language and AI-assisted BI reliable - Power BI Copilot, Microsoft Fabric, Tableau Agent/Pulse or Snowflake Cortex - including the measure definitions, field descriptions, and synonyms these tools depend on to return trustworthy answers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years of related experience, Master’s degree with 4+ years of related experience, or Ph.D. with 1+ year of related experience.

• Data Modeling: Proven capability in enterprise data modeling (dimensional, relational, and NoSQL) and the design of robust data warehouses and data lakes.

• Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in core programming and querying languages essential for data orchestration and analytics, primarily Python, SQL, dbt, and Snowflake.

• Core Competencies: Excellent communication and strategic planning skills, combined with a self-motivated approach and a strong focus on execution.

• Data Pipelines: Demonstrated ability to ensure data quality while creating and maintaining optimal data pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Pipeline Engineering: Advanced expertise in designing, building, and optimizing scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and distributed data processing frameworks.

• Reporting & Visualization: Experience designing and creating reporting and visualization solutions to communicate data insights and directly link data to business outcomes.

• Hands-on experience enabling and tuning natural-language/AI features in a BI platform (e.g., Power BI Copilot, Tableau Agent, Snowflake Cortex Analyst), including the semantic-model preparation required for accurate results.

Why Cisco?

At Cisco, we're revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We've been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.

Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you'll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.

We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.

Cisco is an Affimative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.

Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.