Senior Data Engineer

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines: Managed data pipelines consist of a series of stages through which data flows (for example, from data sources or endpoints of acquisition to integration to consumption for specific use cases). These data pipelines must be created, maintained and optimized as workloads move from development to production for specific use cases.
• Architecting, creating and maintaining data pipelines will be the primary responsibility of the Senior data engineer.
• Drive Automation through effective metadata management:
• The data engineer will be responsible for using innovative and modern tools, techniques and architectures to partially or completely automate the most-common, repeatable and tedious data preparation and integration tasks in order to minimize manual and error-prone processes and improve productivity.

The Senior Data Engineer will also need to assist with renovating the data management infrastructure to drive automation in data integration and management.
This will include (but not be limited to):

• Learning and using modern data preparation, integration and AI-enabled metadata management tools and techniques.
• Tracking data consumption patterns.
• Performing intelligent sampling and caching.
• Monitoring schema changes.
• Recommending or sometimes even automating existing and future integration flows.

Collaborate across departments: The newly hired data engineer will need strong collaboration skills in order to work with varied stakeholders within the organization. In particular, the data engineer will work in close relationship with data science teams and with business (data) analysts in refining their data requirements for various data and analytics initiatives and their data consumption requirements.

Educate and train: The Senior data engineer should be curious and knowledgeable about new data initiatives and how to address them. This includes applying their data and/or domain understanding in addressing new data requirements. They will also be responsible for proposing appropriate (and innovative) data ingestion, preparation, integration and operationalization techniques in optimally addressing these data requirements.
Participate in ensuring compliance and governance during data use: It will be the responsibility of the data engineer to ensure that the data users and consumers use the data provisioned to them responsibly through data governance and compliance initiatives.

Candidate Specification :

• 8+ years experience plus appropriate degree; Received a bachelor’s in the fields of Science or Mathematics or related degree;
• Hands on experience working with BI developers and data analysts to understand the reporting requirements and build out data models for reporting. 
• Strong hands on experience with SQL, preferably in SQL Server, SSRS/SSAS/SSIS
• Experience with Python will be preferred.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience with ELT and ETL postulates.
• Demonstrated expertise and hands-on experience with Azure big data technologies like Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory, Azure Logic Apps etc. is required.
• Experience in batch and real-time data processing
• Demonstrated expertise and hands-on experience in building scalable and optimized data pipelines along with optimizing performance of database queries.
• Demonstrated expertise and hands-on experience working with complex and large data sets in a multi-sector environment 
• Proficient in creating optimized stored procedures and other integration techniques within the database;
• Experience with the following tools:  Microsoft SharePoint, Excel, Power BI, PowerPoint, Word.
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps is required

We can offer (subject to Company’s policy):

- Agile and safe working environment

- Competitive annual leave and sick leaves

- Group incentive scheme

- Group term life insurance, Workmen’s compensation and Group medical insurance coverage

- Short and Long-term Global employment opportunities

- Global collaboration and knowledge sharing

- Digital Innovation and Transformation

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.