Solirius Consulting - Lead Data Engineer at Solirius Consulting

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Job Description:

The Role:

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

Equality & Diversity: Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages, and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.

Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.