Data Engineer- Principal Consultant

Turner & Townsend
London
6 days ago
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Every day we help our global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 130 countries worldwide. If you’re looking to take your career to the next level, there’s room for you to grow at Turner & Townsend.
At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.
Our team is dynamic, innovative, and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result, our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.
Job Description
As a Data Engineer, you will design, build and maintain data pipelines, integration layers and platform components needed to support programme system implementation roadmap. You will ensure data moves securely, reliably and to the right quality across systems to enable analytics, reporting and operational use.
Key Responsibilities

Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines aligned to architectural patterns and data models.
Apply Agile engineering practices including testing, version control and documentation.
Develop and maintain components of the data platform, including data warehouses, lakes and operational stores.
Monitor and optimise pipeline and platform performance.

Data Quality & Governance

Implement data quality rules, validation checks and metadata capture within engineering solutions.
Ensure compliance with data governance, security and retention policies.
Work closely with data architect, data modeller and analysts to translate designs into robust technical solutions.
Engage with suppliers to define interfaces and resolve integration issues.

Standards & Documentation

Produce clear technical documentation and promote engineering standards across the team.

Qualifications
Required Skills & Experience

Proven experience as a Data Engineer delivering pipelines and platform components in complex environments.
Experience with Microsoft technologies across Azure/Fabric
Strong proficiency in SQL and a scripting language such as Python or Scala.
Experience with ETL/ELT and data integration technologies.
Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and modern data platform architectures.
Familiarity with Agile delivery and DevOps principles, including CI/CD.
Knowledge of data quality, governance and metadata practices, ideally aligned to DAMA‑DMBOK.
Experience with other technologies such as Palantir

Additional Information
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.
Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.
Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e‑mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.
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