Staff Engineer - Data Engineering

Claremont Consulting
London
10 months ago
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Staff Engineer (Data Engineering)

A leading tech & data company are looking for a Staff Engineer within their Data Engineering function to provide architectural expertise and guidance on overall solutions to be delivered. You will be working on operational excellence and supporting the extensive data platform and also the bespoke streaming platform.

This is a permanent role based in central London with a hybrid working model.

Role:
The data engineering team manages and works on multiple streams and projects that have a high impact and importance for the business. This role will sit within the Core Data Platform (CDP) team, which is split into two teams, our Platform team that focuses on operational excellence and supporting our extensive data platform and our Streaming team that supports our bespoke streaming platform.

As a Staff Engineer, you will assume a key position providing architectural expertise and guidance that enables the vision of the overall solution to be delivered.
You will use your knowledge of the architectural configuration of your product area to influence decisions about what tools and technologies will enhance our service offering.

This is a technical role, your enthusiasm for exploring new technology and tools will be valued in this team along with your desire to guide others. You will have a deep understanding of the services in your area of the business and how you contribute to the customer success and positive commercial outcomes. You will ensure that we maintain our standards of engineering excellence, both within your business area and as part of a community of engineering, contributing to company wide standards, processes, and tools.

Experience required:

Strong experience in Data Engineering Creates alignment across teams in their domain ensuring that best practice and architectural decisions are well understood within the domain. Capable of setting short to medium term strategies for our services and products, creating designs and roadmaps to communicate and plan change over time in a domainâs estate. Is able to align key stakeholders with these strategies. Provides direction, advice, and guidance on the approach to delivering services and products. Collaborates with and guides other engineers in assessing and evaluating new technologies within the domain. Reduces complexity within our software, processes, and tools. Advocate of engineering excellence within the domain, contributes to technological wide engineering standards, processes and tools. Contributes to the assessment and adoption of standards, processes and tools across the whole of the organisation Provides technical input into planning and business case definitions. Takes a risk-based approach to decision making, guides other engineers in taking the same approach, makes sure that our risk controls are considered when delivering software. Understands the regulatory framework in which the company operates and how it applies to their role and other engineering roles. Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka is advantageous

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