Lead Data Engineer

5 days ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Zühlke Engineering AG Full time

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future - to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow's markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

The Role

We are currently on the look out for an experienced and motivated Lead Data Engineer. As a Lead Data Engineer you will be a trusted advisor, guiding our customers towards a successful technical solution to their data challenges. You will be understanding the needs of multiple types of producers and consumers for our data services, ensuring our products meet their requirements.

Important: To ensure a smooth review process, please submit all application documents (CV, cover letter) in English only.

How you'll make impact

  • Communicating the what, why and how of proposed solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Understanding the big data world whilst developing, testing, and monitoring distributed data processing pipelines.
  • Extrapolating versatile data sets and sources to produce high quality, reproducible datasets in a scalable and maintainable way.
  • Collaborating with different data roles such as Architects, Software Engineers and Data Scientists with ease.
  • Delivering projects in an Agile way, building iteratively to produce value from data early and frequently.
  • Keeping yourself technically sharp, being open to learning new concepts and technologies.
What's important to us

We encourage our data engineers to be open to learn new technology on a project-by-project basis. We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer who has a sample of the following skills and experience:
  • Lead level experience in designing, building and maintaining data products that meet the needs of data consumers.
  • Excellent and practical data programming skills with experience in different programming languages like Java or Python.
  • Experience in leading complex projects to deadlines, with an emphasis on quality, ideally in client facing contexts.
  • Proven background of common approaches to data analysis, machine learning and data visualisation so you can produce the right data for data consumers.
  • Experience with a variety of approaches to data architectures (e.g. Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data Warehouse, streaming, batch processing)
  • Hands-on experience with databases both relational and NoSQL.
  • Deep experience with big data infrastructures and concepts for storing and processing large and/or heterogeneous data volumes.
  • Practical knowledge of handling varied types of structured and unstructured data (text, tabular, graph, time-series, geospatial, image, etc.).
  • Working knowledge of containerisation and public and private Cloud environments.
  • Tracking record about information security and data governance.
  • Promoting data-driven AI and GenAI initiatives by embedding machine learning models and generative capabilities into data pipelines.
  • Familiarity with Pre-sales process or desire to be a part of that process
What we offer
  • Work life blend: we offer a safe & healthy workplace, with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home.
  • Profit share scheme: In addition to your annual salary, you may receive a profit share defined by the company's success in the previous year.
  • Global and Diverse Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 16 offices across the globe come together to create a unique, positive and inclusive work culture, learning from one another at annual team camps, and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities.
  • Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. We're empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact, both personally and for our clients, today and in the future.
How to Apply

Please note: Applications must be submitted in English only to be considered.

If you feel you don't meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.
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