Lead Data Engineer

Chambers & Partners
City of London
3 weeks ago
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Overview

To design, build and deploy high quality solutions across Chambers products, platforms, and applications, ensuring they meet data engineering and QA standards. To promote engineering best practices and being point of expertise for all data related projects and ensuring standards and performance are met across the data engineering team. As a core member of our DB team, you will help in the implementation of our data strategy and transformation roadmap.


Main Duties and Responsibilities

  • Write clean and testable code using SQL and Python scripting languages, to enable our customer data products and business applications
  • Build and manage data pipelines and notebooks, deploying code in a structured, trackable and safe manner
  • Effectively create, optimise and maintain automated systems and processes across a given project(s) or technical domain
  • Data Analyse, profile and plan work, aligned with project priorities
  • Perform reviews of code, refactoring where necessary
  • Deploy code in a structured, trackable and safe manner
  • Document your data developments and operational procedures
  • Ensure adherence to data/software delivery standards and effective delivery
  • Help monitor, troubleshoot and resolve production data issues when they occur
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team
  • Contribute to the team’s ability to make and deliver on their commitments
  • Innovate and experiment with technology to deliver real business benefits
  • Regularly launch products and services based on your work and be an integral part of making these a success
  • Guide, influence and challenge the technology team and stakeholders to understand the benefits, pros and cons of various technical options
  • Guide and mentor less experienced developers assigned on projects
  • Promote an innovative thinking process and encourage it in others
  • Working within the agile framework at Chambers

Skills and Experience

  • Demonstrableprofessional Data experience
  • Strong understanding of DataBricks and PySpark
  • Understanding of SQL and CosmosDB databases
  • Knowledge of designing, constructing, administering, and maintaining data warehouses and data lakes
  • Knowledge of Azure Cloud Services
  • Good exposure to Azure Data Lake technologies such as ADF, HDFS and Synapse
  • Good knowledge of Data Governance, Data Catalog, Master Data Management
  • Knowledge of Advanced Analytics and Model Management including Azure Databricks, Azure ML/ MLFlow as well as deployment of models using Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills
  • Highly driven, positive attitude, team player, self‑motivated and very flexible
  • Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting
  • Knowledge of agile methodology
  • Knowledge of GitHub
  • Prioritisation skills to handle fast passed dynamic environment

Person Specification

  • A passionate data engineer with a history of driving his or her own technical and professional development
  • Worked in the media, publishing, research, or a similar consumer focused industry (Highly Desirable)
  • Able to clearly communicate with business and technology stakeholders
  • Attention to Detail, focused on the finer details that make the difference
  • Delivery Focus, pragmatic and driven to get solutions live
  • Able to Lead, providing thought leadership in the data domain
  • A Proactive attitude. A self‑starter who seeks out opportunities for yourself and your team
  • Awareness of industry and consumer trends
  • Awareness of and the ability to manage business and technology expectations
  • Able to build strong personal relationships and trust
  • Able to sell ideas or visions. Influence and advise stakeholders at all levels

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to fostering and promoting an inclusive professional environment for all of our employees, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion are integral values of Chambers and Partners and are key in our culture. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals regardless of age, disability, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. This commitment applies across all of our employment policies and practices, from recruiting and hiring to training and career development. We support our employees through our internal INSPIRE committee with Executive Sponsors, Chairs and Ambassadors throughout the business promoting knowledge and effecting change. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview.


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