Data Engineer (Mid to Senior Level)

Tata Consultancy Services; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health care

Life assurance

Laptop

Training resources

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Dublin is seeking a Data Engineer to join a strategic customer team on a fixed-term 1-year programme. You will build data-intensive analytics applications and hands-on contribute to a high-profile initiative with executive visibility.

You will use Databricks, Spark and PySpark to process data at scale, mentor junior engineers, and uphold high software quality through robust CI/CD, testing, and secure coding practices.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience delivering scalable, high-performance software in an agile environment.
• Experience with Python, Databricks, Spark, or PySpark for data pipelines and analytics-driven applications.
• Proven ability to lead team-level design discussions and guide implementation through technical influence.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Python

Databricks

Spark

PySpark

Leadership/mentoring

Collaboration across teams

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Software Engineering or related field

Tools

Databricks

Spark

PySpark

Job description

Job Type:Fixed Term (1 Year)

Location:Dublin (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)

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.

Ideal qualifications include:

• 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.

Rewards & Benefits

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 [e-mail] if you would like to opt in.

If you are an applicant who needs any adjustments to the application process or interview, please contact us [e-mail] with the subject line: \"Adjustment Request\"to request an adjustment. We welcome requests prior to you completing the application and at any stage of the recruitment process.

Due to the high volume of applications, we will be unable to contact each applicant individually on the status of their application. If you have not received a direct response within 30 days, then it should be deemed unsuccessful on this occasion.