Senior Data Engineer

Capgemini; Telford; Hybride; GBP 65 000 - 95 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Wellbeing program

Mental Health Champions

Thrive app

Résumé du poste

Capgemini is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build and optimise scalable data solutions across modern services. You will guide technical leads, set priorities and ensure delivery commitments across multiple teams in a hybrid UK setup.

You will leverage AI-enabled delivery, promote best practices, and mentor engineers to build confidence and capability in data engineering, testing, and governance.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering scalable data engineering solutions in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to migrate and modernise legacy data platforms while ensuring quality.
• Strong collaboration with architects, analysts and stakeholders to achieve business outcomes.

Responsabilités

• Lead multiple teams or technical leads to design and govern robust data solutions.
• Provide technical guidance and promote engineering best practices across teams.
• Drive continuous improvement and remove delivery bottlenecks.
• Coach engineers and foster knowledge sharing and capability development.

Connaissances

Data engineering

Technical leadership

Delivery management

Automation & AI tooling

Outils

Talend

Denodo

SAS

AWS Glue

Azure

AWS

GCP

Description du poste

About the job you're consideringOur Data & Intelligence Portfolio continues to experience significant growth, driven by new client engagements and increasing demand across our existing accounts. As demand continues to exceed forecasts, we are expanding our permanent engineering capability to support delivery excellence, strengthen our technical leadership community, and build sustainable capability for future growth.We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our growing engineering team and play a key role in delivering high-quality data solutions within a fast-paced, agile environment.We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-moving delivery environment and is comfortable adapting to changing priorities while staying focused on outcomes. You will take ownership and accountability for delivery, bring a continuous improvement mindset, and actively look for ways to improve quality, efficiency and customer outcomes through innovation, modern engineering practices and new technologies. Just as importantly, you will be collaborative and team-focused, showing leadership through clear framing, calm decision-making, and the ability to bring your team along on the journey by building shared understanding, explaining the ‘why’, and helping people stay aligned through change. Experience mentoring junior engineers and supporting others to build confidence and capability is also important.Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business;it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of thetime.If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspentcriminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service)Your roleAs a Senior Data Engineer, you will lead multiple teams in designing, building and optimising scalable data solutions across modern and existing services, while supporting the successful delivery of complex client programmes. Where you are leading across multiple teams, you will set the technical direction through the individual technical leads, helping them understand priorities, dependencies, delivery outcomes and the standards expected across their teams.This role requires someone who can framework clearly, create alignment across teams, and provide the conditions for engineers to deliver confidently and consistently. You will be expected to adapt quickly to changing priorities, support continuous improvement initiatives, and leverage emerging technologies, including AI, to improve productivity, delivery speed and solution quality.You will lead in uncertain and evolving delivery environments by helping technical leads and their teams navigate change, make pragmatic engineering decisions, and stay focused on quality and delivery commitments. The role requires someone who can set the tone for delivery, role model good engineering behaviours, and bring others with them through coaching, constructive challenge and clear communication.Your skills and experienceData Engineering Delivery• Design and govern robust, scalable data engineering solutions.• Support the migration and modernisation of legacy data platforms.• Collaborate with architects, analysts, testers and business stakeholders to deliver business outcomes.Technical Leadership• Provide technical guidance and support to technical leads and other engineers.• Promote engineering best practices and coding standards.• Contribute to technical design discussions and engineering decision-making.• Promote knowledge sharing and capability development.• Act as a role model for engineering excellence and continuous learning.• Set clear expectations, frame delivery goals, and produce practical engineering plans.• Explain the ‘why’ behind decisions, build shared understanding, and encourage open collaboration across teams.• Provide coaching, constructive feedback to support engineers’ development.• Support continuous improvement activities to improve team productivity and delivery performance.• Help teams identify and remove delivery bottlenecks.Quality & Testing• Demonstrate a strong understanding of test principles, test automation and quality engineering practices.• Ensure your teams build quality into engineering solutions from the outset, and support reliable and robust delivery.• Recognise the value of testing specialists in ensuring solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements, and ensure your teams have the right balance of development and testing capability to support quality delivery.• Encourage automation of testing where appropriate.AI-Driven Engineering & Efficiency• Champion the use of AI-assisted engineering tools and techniques.• Identify opportunities to improve productivity through automation and AI-enabled delivery.• Drive continuous improvement across development, testing, documentation and knowledge sharing.• Share best practices and innovations with the wider engineering community.________________________________________Technical SkillsExperience across a number of the following:• Data Integration and ETL/ELT development• SQL and database technologies• Data modelling and data transformation• Cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP)• Data warehousing and analytics platforms• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices• Git and modern source control practices• Data Quality and Data Governance principlesDesirable• Experience with Talend, Denodo, SAS, or AWS Glue.• Experience within large-scale public sector or regulated environments.• Cloud certifications.• Experience using AI engineering tools to improve productivity and delivery outcomes.Your security clearanceTo be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.What does ‘Get The Future You Want ‘ mean for you?You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way.You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.Why you should consider CapgeminiGrowing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of acollective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunitiesthat will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day,sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and growtheir business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.About CapgeminiCapgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 350,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.