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Senior Data Engineering Consultant

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Senior Data Engineering Consultant

Senior Data Engineering Consultant required by a fast-growing boutique consultancy.

This is a superb opportunity to join a specialist Data & Insights Practice and play a key role where you will lead, design and deliver data projects for a range of clients, whilst still applying your hands-on data engineering skills.

Responsibilities

Day-to-day you will utilise your blend of functional and technical skills to implement end-to-end reporting, analytics and data solutions for a variety of customers, from large enterprises to small start-ups.

You will lead exciting and complex projects that vary in size and complexity, and you will take ownership of deliveries; gathering requirements, understanding business problems, designing and building solutions, reporting and analysis through to go-live and training.

This role will provide you with plenty of opportunities to flex your data skills to help harness solutions and solve problems, and you will get to see the fruits of your labour and the impact the deliveries have on the client.

You will be responsible for:

Engaging with customer stakeholders, forging strong relationships and capturing requirements
Designing and building technical data solutions using a variety of different data tools and platforms
Consulting with clients on the best approach and most suitable data technologies
Leading projects, delivery and documentation
Using your hands-on technical skills to write code, build and deploy solutions
Managing and mentoring junior consultants on deliveries 

You will need

To be considered, you will be a Data Consultant or Data Engineer who has strong hands-on technical skills in areas such as data modelling, and a track record of leading the design and delivery of data solutions.

You will bring a strong blend of technical and functional experience and will have ideally operated within a client-facing/consultancy environment where you have gained experience of leading projects, not just working as part of a big team writing code.

Your hands-on technical skillset will span data engineering, modelling, integration and migration. You will be adaptable and able to work with different tools and technologies, depending on the client and project needs but will ideally possess strength in some or all of:

MS Fabric stack
Databricks
Snowflake
Azure / AWS
SQL
Tableau / Power BI 

A general IT architecture and systems integration is also required. Other technologies such as Azure Data Factory, RedShift, Informatica, Qlik or similar are also useful, and you will be open-minded to learning new skills. Experience in Oracle OBIEE and/or Oracle Analytics Cloud is also desirable but not essential.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage and manage client stakeholders are also essential.

What is on offer?

A competitive salary of £50,000-£65,000 is on offer (depending on your level of experience) as well as an annual bonus of £5k-£7k (paid quarterly), private medical, pension (up to 5% matched) and other perks such as a mobile phone allowance.

This is a hybrid role that offers lots of flexibility to work remotely, but visits to the office in Surrey / London are required roughly once a week (some weeks less, some weeks more, with possible visits to client sites if requested)

This consultancy has big ambitions to grow, so if you are a Senior Data Engineering Consultant and want to work alongside some of the industry’s best on some exciting client projects, then this could be the challenge you are seeking!

If you are interested please apply ASAP. The People Network is an employment agency and will respond to all applicants within three - five working days. If you do not hear within these timescales please feel free to get in touch

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