Principal Data Engineer
Work where work matters.
Elevate your career at Qodea, where innovation isn't just a buzzword, it's in our DNA.
We are a global technology group built for what's next, offering high calibre professionals the platform for high stakes work, the kind of work that defines an entire career. When you join us, you're not just taking on projects, you're solving problems that don't even have answers yet.
You will join the exclusive roster of talent that global leaders, including Google, Snap, Diageo, PayPal, and Jaguar Land Rover call when deadlines seem impossible, when others have already tried and failed, and when the solution absolutely has to work.
Forget routine consultancy. You will operate where technology, design, and human behaviour meet to deliver tangible outcomes, fast. This is work that leaves a mark, work you’ll be proud to tell your friends about.
Qodea is built for what’s next. An environment where your skills will evolve at the frontier of innovation and AI, ensuring continuous growth and development.
We are looking for a Data Engineering Team Lead to engage with enterprise-level organisations to offer a consultative view and direction on best practice data architecture using Google Cloud solutions.
We look for people who embody:
Innovation to solve the hardest problems.
Accountability for every result.
Integrity always.
About The Role
The purpose of this role is to lead a team of highly talented Data Engineering Consultants, ensuring they are motivated and have the tools and training to perform their roles to a high standard.
Alongside the team leadership responsibilities, you’ll engage with enterprise-level organisations to offer a consultative view and direction on best practice data architecture using Google Cloud solutions.
What You’ll Do
Lead and inspire an experienced team of data engineers and scientists, working with them on their skills, personal development and career growth:
- Carry out one-to-ones with your team members to discuss any issues they’re facing, provide support and encouragement and discuss their career goals.
- Design L&D KPIs for your team, helping to grow their skills over time and scale your own knowledge and experience
- Keep on top of administrative duties relating to team leadership - performance reviews, absence management, arranging team-building events etc.
- Play an active role in the recruitment process to bring new people into the business.
Lead client engagements and project delivery:
- Lead client engagements and team lead on client-facing delivery projects
- Consult, design, coordinate architecture to modernise infrastructure for performance, scalability, latency, and reliability
- Identify, scope, and participate in the design and delivery of cloud data platform solutions
Deliver highly scalable big data architecture solutions using Google Cloud Technology:
- Create and maintain appropriate standards and best practices around Google Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and other data technologies
- Design and execute a platform modernization approach for customers' data environments
- Document and share technical best practices/insights with engineering colleagues and the Data Engineering community
- Mentor and develop engineers within the Qodea Data Team and within our customers' engineering teams
- Act as the point of escalation with client-facing problems that need solving
Requirements
What Success Looks Like
- Strong experience as a Lead / Principal Cloud Data Engineer, with a solid track record of migrating large volumes of of data through the use of cloud data services and modern tooling
- Experience of leading teams of engineers
- Experience in performing a technical leadership role on projects and contributing to technical decision making during in-flight projects.
- A track record of being involved in a wide range of projects with various tools and technologies, and solving a broad range of problems using your technical skills.
- Demonstrable experience of utilising strong communication and stakeholder management skills when engaging with customers
- Significant experience of coding in Python and Scala or Java
- Experience with big data processing tools such as Hadoop or Spark
- Cloud experience
- Experience with Terraform
- Prior experience in a customer-facing consultancy role would be highly desirable
- Experience in working with agile software engineering teams
Benefits
We believe in supporting our team members both professionally and personally. Here's how we invest in you:
Compensation and Financial Well-being
- Competitive base salary.
- Discretionary company bonus scheme.
- Employee referral scheme.
- Meal Vouchers.
Health and Wellness
- Health Care Package.
- Life and Health Insurance.
Work-Life Balance and Growth
- Bookster.
- 28 days of annual leave.
- Floating bank holidays.
- An extra paid day off on your birthday.
- Ten paid learning days per year.
- Flexible working hours.
- Sabbatical leave (after 5 years).
- Work from anywhere (up to 3 weeks per year).
- Industry-recognised training and certifications.
- Bonusly: employee recognition and rewards platform.
- Clear opportunities for career development.
- Length of Service Awards.
- Regular company events.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all.