Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Software Engineering Practice, to build and develop our Data Engineering Capability. 

Working with our Head of Software Engineering, and building upon our existing Data Engineering capability you will help us to develop a culture of best-practice, define the services we offer to our clients and grow the size of our Data Engineering team. The role requires an experienced Lead Data Engineer who has a background in consultancy and has the ability to work closely with internal stakeholders and clients to further develop our Data Engineer propositions, taking ownership of the strategy and growth and training of the team. We are looking for someone who has an entrepreneurial approach, and is interested in working with our senior management team on business development opportunities.

About you:

Our team is our strongest asset, you will be an excellent team player who recognises the strength of the team as a whole and can find their role within the Solirius team. 

Typical qualities of a Solirius consultant are:

• Best in class technical skills in their sector

• Outstanding communication skills

• Strong interpersonal and team working skills

• Self motivated, enthusiastic and committed

• The ideal candidates will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working.

Key Responsibilities:

• Defining and delivering the Data Engineer strategy.

• Advocating and evangelising Data Engineer capabilities, providing direction and influencing key stakeholders across our clients.

• Develop compelling services for our clients

• Developing and scaling our organisational structure to support new services and clients

• Assisting on business development opportunities, responding to client Invitations To Tender (ITTs)

• Defining standards and patterns for Data Engineer capabilities and associated tooling

• Establishing and directing the Data Engineering team that works across clients.

Key Skills/Experience:

Required Experience

• Substantial experience in data engineering

• Experienced in leading a team of engineers, helping develop their skills and defining career paths

• Ability to work with senior stakeholders and detailed technical specialists.

• Excellent communication skills

• Experience of working with cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS, GCP is beneficial)

• SQL and relational databases (e.g. MS SQL/Azure SQL, PostgreSQL)

• Data acquisition and development of data sets

• Experience building and scaling ETL data pipelines

• Improving data reliability, efficiency and quality

• Preparing data for predictive and prescriptive modelling

• Reporting tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Qlik)

• GDPR and Government Service Standard

• Passionate, motivated and enthusiastic about developing technology solutions for our clients.

Beneficial Experience

• .NET, Python or other programming languages and tools

• Deploying analytics programs, machine learning and statistical methods

• Developing data architectures and aligning them with business needs

• Data analysis (e.g SQL Server Analysis Services)

• Azure Data Factory

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience

• Flexible working / Work from home

• Generous annual discretionary bonus

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

• 10 days allocated development training per year

• Contributory pension

• Gym membership

• Annual away days and social events