Lead Starburst Data Engineer

Capgemini
West Midlands
3 days ago
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This role focuses on leading end‑to‑end delivery of Starburst/Trino‑based data platforms across multi‑cloud environments. You will architect, deploy, and optimize large‑scale distributed query engines while ensuring strong governance, security, and engineering best practices. The position requires hands‑on expertise, leadership capability, and the ability to collaborate with global teams to modernize data ecosystems.

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 the time.

Your Role:
  • Install, configure, tune, and administer Starburst Enterprise / Trino clusters across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Build and optimize distributed SQL workloads, connectors, and ETL/ELT pipelines using modern data‑engineering tools.
  • Lead technical design, performance engineering, troubleshooting, and production reliability initiatives.
  • Implement strong IAM, security, governance, metadata, and lineage frameworks across the data platform.
  • Provide technical leadership, guide engineers, manage delivery models (Agile/Waterfall), and collaborate with cross‑functional teams.
Your Skills:
  • Hands‑on expertise with Starburst/Trino setup, tuning, performance optimization, and cluster administration.
  • Strong cloud engineering background with AWS, Azure, GCP, including Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, and GitOps.
  • Solid data engineering experience with Python, Spark, Databricks, Airflow, dbt, Kafka, and distributed query engines.
  • Deep understanding of data lakes, object storage, data governance, metadata management, and security frameworks.
  • Preferred exposure to Starburst Galaxy, cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP), and data‑virtualization platforms (Denodo, TIBCO DV, IBM DV, Dremio, Presto/Trino).
We are a Disability Confident Employer:

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

  • Declare they have a disability, and
  • Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Make It Real (what does it mean for you):
  • 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.
  • You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini’s ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.
  • You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies®, as recognised by Ethisphere® for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.
Why you should consider Capgemini:

Growing 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 a collective 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 opportunities that 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 grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini:

Capgemini is an AI‑powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end‑to‑end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.


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