Principal Data Engineer

3 days ago

Cardiff, United Kingdom Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Full time

Principal Data Engineer | Permanent | Cardiff | Up to £52,000
**Your new company**
An excellent job opportunity has arisen for a Principal Data Engineer specialising in Customer Data to join a highly established not for profit organisation in South Wales.
**Your new role**
This is a new and exciting role that will allow you to play a leading role in developing our new cloud-based data platform. You will be leading on the technical data engineering development on the new platform, whilst also supporting our existing set of SQLServers, that are predominantly used to feed data into a number of analytics products produced by the Data Team to help the business with data-led decision making.
Your responsibilities will include
- Line managing a small team of database developers and data engineers, supporting newer members of the team (particularly graduates and apprentices) to develop their own understanding
- Managing and participating in the design and implementation of data engineering projects on both on-premise and cloud based data stacks, delivering efficient solutions that comply with architectural and data security requirements, on time
- Working closely with the Data Governance and Engineering Manager to ensure relevant strategic objectives (e.g., utilisation of the cloud data platform etc.) successfully progress
- Being able to work collaboratively as part of a team, whilst also being trusted to work individually where necessary. Approaching collaborative projects with others in a positive manner to problem-solve, and identify viable solutions to overcome issuesand challenges
- Working closely with technical and management colleagues within key teams such as Integrated Technology Services (ITS) - to ensure relevant information technology components and services are in place to accommodate developed solutions
- Actively horizon-scan across a rapidly changing field, assessing how the latest research, techniques and approaches could be implemented to achieve business benefit
- Undertaking any other duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

**What you'll need to succeed**
Top three
- Substantial, demonstrable experience of data pipeline design and management
- Solid understanding of database administration activities and principles
- Strong understanding of typical ingestion patterns (e.g. ETL, ELT) and their effective implementation with on-premise and cloud-based environments

Other knowledge & skills
- Enthusiastic about putting our customers first every day
- Demonstrable experience of the full software/reporting lifecycle from planning and design through to deployment and maintenance
- Knowledge of typical data modelling approaches (e.g. Kimball) and experience of working with and building data warehouses
- Data transformation approaches
- Python and SQL programming capabilities

Desirable (should not deter you from applying)
- Data security approaches - e.g. permission models (AD, role-based etc.) and techniques to protect data in certain circumstances (e.g. encryption, masking) - Desirable only
- Experience using the Microsoft data stack (especially Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory) - Desirable only
- Knowledge of the Microsoft BI Stack, including SQL Server Analysis Services, Integration Services and Reporting Services, and Power BI - Desirable only
- Experience using common agile project management principles, particularly in the context of data and analytical project delivery - Desirable only

**What you'll get in return**
As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

- Variable pay schemes (your salary will always stay the same, but depending on the performance of the company you could receive a yearly bonus)
- Enhanced employer pension contributions - Up to 11%
- Enhanced family friendly policies
- Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
- Cycle to work scheme
- Car-leasing scheme
- Health CashBack scheme
- An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family

**What you need to do now**
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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