Lead Data Engineer - Intelligence
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Division/Team: Data
Type of Contract: Full-time
As part of the data practice, we are focused on creating a modern architecture and software development practice that can deliver cloud, digital and agile transformations to our clients. The ideal candidate will have a strong software engineering background, will have worked in large teams and will be comfortable in a client-facing role. You will also be willing and able to contribute to the 6point6 internal data practice strategy and thought leadership.
Role and responsibilities
- Report to the Head of Data Engineering to build and manage a team of data engineers that work on intelligence-focused projects
- Lead a team of data engineers
- Lead client engagements
- Take a key role in hiring the team by attending interviews and discuss candidates with the Head of Data Engineering
- Be a hands-on engineer on client projects, by architecting and building solutions that take large-scale client data and derive novel business-critical insight from them, using cutting edge cloud platform technologies
- Mentor and coach junior members of the team, building them up through the promotion cycle, helping them to learn new skills by experiencing increased responsibility on client projects
- Develop in-house accelerators and tooling to a high standard, that will be re-used across client projects
- Communicate with senior client stakeholders about project delivery status
Requirements
- 5+ years experience working on large-scale data projects
- 2+ years experience managing data engineers
- Experienced and comfortable working in complex environments, and leading a team of data engineers
- SC cleared or clearable
Essential
- Bachelors Degree
- Industry experience in data engineering
- Scala or Python commercial development experience
- Solution architecture of cloud data platforms
- Apache Spark experience
Desirable
- Advanced degree (Masters / Doctorate) in a STEM subject
- Leads a data engineering team
- AWS Glue or Google Cloud Dataflow experience
- Kafka experience with schema evolution (e.g. using Avro)
- Experience specifying and building graph databases
- Semantic and/or Knowledge Graph experience
- Experience on data consulting projects
- Experience building teams, hiring, CV reviewing
- Experience working on bids (e.g. Digital Marketplace)
- Publishing writing on data and/or domain subjects, either academic or industrial thought leadership
Benefits
Why 6point6?
At 6point6, we drive the right change in every organisation through the positive impact of technology. Leading with strategy, architecture, and design, we connect cloud, data, and cyber to engineer and deliver large-scale, complex transformations across public and private sectors. We help organisations realise the value of their business strategy, allowing them to engage in a more meaningful way with their end customers.
Benefits of a career at 6point6
We offer a competitive salary & benefits package, for more details of our benefits package please see - https://6point6.co.uk/careers/