Data Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking a Data Engineer in Dublin on a fixed-term, 1-year basis. The role focuses on building data-intensive analytics applications and leading a team within a strategic customer programme. You will work with Databricks, Spark, PySpark, and related technologies in an agile environment.

You will mentor others, drive design discussions, and ensure secure, scalable, and maintainable solutions while collaborating across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering in an agile setting.
• Experience with data-intensive analytics applications.

Responsibilities

• Develop data-intensive applications and analytics capabilities using Databricks, Spark, and related technologies.
• Mentor junior and midlevel engineers through technical guidance and code reviews.
• Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture with ownership and high standards for quality.
• Improve platform reliability through testing, security practices, and production readiness.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

Databricks

Spark

PySpark

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Tools

Databricks

Spark

PySpark

Job description

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Job Type: Fixed Term (1 Year)

Location: Dublin (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)

Careers at TCS: It means more

TCS is a purpose-led transformation company, built on belief. We do not just help businesses to transform through technology. We support them in making a meaningful difference to the people and communities they serve - our clients include some of the biggest brands in the UK and worldwide. For you, it means more to make an impact that matters, through challenging projects which demand ambitious innovation and thought leadership.

• Lead a team and their technical growth.
• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders.
• Grow your career, while being exposed to new technologies.
• Work with a global customer

The Role

This associate will join a strategic customer team developing business-critical applications within a high-profile programme that has executive visibility.

Your responsibilities:

Build innovative products that help businesses around the world unlock more value from their data. As a Data Engineer within BE&O, you will contribute to data-intensive, analytics-driven applications that support sophisticated business experimentation and decision-making for some of the world’s largest organizations. You will:

• Develop and optimize data intensive applications and analytics capabilities using Databricks, Spark, and related technologies to process and deliver data at scale.
• Mentor junior and midlevel engineers through technical guidance, pairing, code reviews, design feedback, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture by modeling ownership, clear communication, continuous learning, pragmatic decision making, and high standards for software quality.
• Improve engineering quality through code reviews, design reviews, automated testing, secure coding practices, observability, performance tuning, CI/CD practices, and production readiness.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, service, API, data, and cloud layers, driving root cause analysis and implementing durable solutions that improve platform reliability and supportability.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable, high performance, and reliable software in an agile environment.
• Experience with Python, Databricks, Spark, or PySpark, particularly for working with data pipelines and analytics driven applications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead team level design discussions, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and guide implementation through technical influence.
• Ability to translate product and business needs into scalable, secure, and maintainable technical solutions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Strong problem solving skills with the ability to work through ambiguity, make sound technical decisions, and drive results through hands on execution.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is a plus.

Your Profile:

Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Data intensive and analytics driven applications
• Databricks, Spark, or PySpark experience - highly desirable

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience: (As applicable)

• Knowledge of payments domain.

TCS is consistently voted a Top Employer in the UK and globally. Our competitive salary packages feature pension, health care, life assurance, laptop and access to extensive training resources and discounts within the larger Tata network.

We offer health & wellness initiatives and sports events; we are the proud sponsor of the London Marathon and partner with our local communities in Ireland.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Tata Consultancy Services UK&I is committed to meeting the accessibility needs of all individuals in accordance with the Ireland Employment Equality Acts 1998-2011 (as amended) and the Equal Status Acts 2000-2012 (as amended).

We welcome and embrace diversity in race, nationality, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender identity, age, physical ability, gender reassignment, sexual orientation. We are a disability inclusive employer and encourage disabled people to apply for this role.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer an interview to applicants with disabilities or long-term conditions who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please email us at [e-mail] if you would like to opt in.