Overview
We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer ideally on a permanent contract basis, to join our talented Data Engineering team. In this key role, you will work closely with our Engineering Director to support the development of our high‑performing team, applying your extensive engineering expertise to drive business growth and lead consultancy‑driven projects.
Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical direction, support and developing their skills to ensure the highest quality outcomes for our clients.
Technical Project Ownership: Responsible for the technical direction and execution against critical business transformations, ensuring both sustainability and quality. Working closely with Business Analysts to ensure the technical solution meets 100% of the business needs.
Client Engagement: Act as the technical liaison between the engineering teams and clients, ensuring client satisfaction through well‑thought‑out solutions with longevity in mind.
Quality Assurance & Best Practice: Establish and enforce data engineering standards, best practice, reusable frameworks. Quality assurance management through data engineering pipelines, ensuring both quality and performance of solutions.
Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with the latest developments in technology changes within respective field and or specialisation, and proactively engage with wider engineering team on learning opportunities.
On‑Site Engagement: Periodically visit client sites to foster and strengthen relationships, ensuring our commitment to partnership and collaborative success is clearly demonstrated.
A bit about you: Being a consultant at Intuita means something a little different to being a consultant elsewhere; we like to hire driven characters who share our passion and approach, bringing their style and flare. We see ourselves as trusted partners to our clients and believe in transparency, quality and integrity above all else, always pushing the boundaries to deliver the best outcomes for our clients. We also really value collaboration and teamwork, making sure we work together to solve problems and share learnings as a team.
This position calls for a leader with a strong combination of hands‑on technical excellence and exceptional leadership skills to steer our teams toward achieving both quality and strategic objectives. Ideally you will have managed a team of engineers with proven success.
Qualifications
- Extensive hands‑on experience in a business transformation setting, either at enterprise level or in large‑scale delivery.
- Proven success as a Team Leader, managing a team of Data Engineers on various projects.
- Proven experience in data engineering and architecture, with a focus on developing scalable cloud solutions in Azure, GCP or AWS.
- Data Modelling using Kimball, 3NF or Dimensional methodologies.
- Analytics Engineering lean, with experience within BigQuery (GCP) with data modelling in DBT and mobile/telecoms industry experience would be beneficial, with deep DBT experience being highly beneficial.
- Depth of knowledge and understanding across core orchestration tools and CI/CD pipelines to enhance development efficiency and deployment effectiveness, including Azure DevOps or GitHub.
- Considerable experience designing and building operationally efficient pipelines, utilising core Cloud components, such as Azure Data Factory, Big Query, AirFlow, Google Cloud Composer and Pyspark etc.
- Proven experience in modelling data through a medallion‑based architecture, with curated dimensional models in the gold layer built for analytical use.
- Strong understanding and or use of unity catalog alongside core databricks functionality to drive metadata management.
- Strong understanding of cloud economics, including cost management strategies and optimising solutions for customer needs.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, proficiency using tools such as Terraform to automate and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring both consistency and scalability across environments.
- Certifications in relevant technologies and methodologies, such as certified solutions architect or data engineer credentials from Microsoft Azure, GCP, AWS or Databricks.
- Ability to inspire, lead, and manage a diverse team of data engineers, fostering an environment that promotes professional growth and high performance.
- Experience working within an Agile delivery team and effectively collaborating with cross‑functional teams.
Nice to Have
- Prior experience in a consultancy setting, demonstrating the ability to navigate the unique challenges and dynamics of consulting with various clients and industries.
- Knowledge or specialisation in specific industries such as financial services, telecoms, ecommerce or retail, which can help tailor data solutions more effectively to client needs.
- Experience in building PowerBI semantic models for downstream visualisation consumption.
- Knowledge and or experience in data management tools such as Azure Purview or Collibra, with exposure to data cataloguing, lineage, and data quality standards.
Benefits
- Really flexible and remote working: most companies say they offer flexible working, but they've never experienced flexible working at Intuita. We trust you to work in the way that suits you best and offer flexible hours and part‑time roles to fit your lifestyle. We have UK offices in Newbury, London and Liverpool, which you're welcome to work from as much as you like; we simply ask that you don't become isolated – we help in organising a variety of regular social events to ensure we maintain our close‑knit feel.
- Care for your health and wellbeing: we genuinely care about the wellbeing of our team. We offer comprehensive company‑paid medical insurance, free therapy and mental health support via Spill, a team of in‑house Mental Health First Aiders, plus financial education and consultations.
- Incredible training and learning opportunities: our team is full of talented individuals who are genuine experts in what they do. You'll get to work alongside them and learn from the best, as well as boosting your skills and knowledge with our knowledge sharing sessions, mentoring and company‑paid certifications.
- Freedom and empowerment: we allow our consultants to actually be consultants, not just bodies. You're given the responsibility and accountability to really own problems and are encouraged to explore new directions and opportunities. There are no glass ceilings here and we don't have salary or promotion review dates – we reward people as and when we see great work!
- A supportive, friendly team: we work hard but enjoy working hard together. We're a diverse and inclusive team who enjoy silly Slack conversations and regular social events; our relatively flat structure means that everyone has an equal voice.
Salary
We are open to a range for this role which would generally cover £75,000 to £95,000 per annum (as a full‑time salary, pro rata based on hours less than 37.5hr per week).
