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Date Added: Fri 06/09/2024

Lead Data Engineer Azure

Liverpool, UK
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Company: INTUITA

Job Type: Permanent, FullTime

Salary: £0 per annum

??�????�?Let us introduce ourselves!

We're Intuita, a new kind of data partner. We're a collective of data-driven people ready to cut through complexity to solve business problems in a human-centric and sustainable way. We provide pragmatic end-to-end services, products and technologies combined with straight-talking strategic direction to unlock the true value of data and drive transformational change.

?? The role

We are looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join our very talented Data Engineering team. In this key role, you will work closely with our Engineering Director to develop a high-performing team, applying your extensive engineering expertise to drive business growth and lead consultancy-driven projects. This position calls for a leader with a strong combination of hands-on technical excellence and exceptional leadership skills to steer our teams toward achieving both quality and strategic objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide and mentor a team of engineers, providing technical direction, support and develop their skills to ensure the highest quality outcomes for our clients.
  • Technical Project Ownership: Responsible for the technical direction and execution against critical business transformations, ensuring both sustainability and quality. Working closely with Business Analysts to ensure the technical solution meets 100% of the business needs.
  • Client Engagement: Act as the technical liaison between the engineering teams and clients, ensuring client satisfaction through well thought out solutions with longevity in mind.
  • Quality Assurance & Best Practice: Establish and enforce data engineering standards, best practice, reusable frameworks. Quality assurance management through data engineering pipelines, ensuring both quality and performance of solutions.
  • Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with the latest developments in technology changes within respective field/and or specialism, and proactively engage with wider engineering team on learning opportunities.
  • On-Site Engagement: Periodically visit client sites to foster and strengthen relationships, ensuring our commitment to partnership and collaborative success is clearly demonstrated.

?? A bit about you

Being a consultant at Intuita means something a little different to being a consultant elsewhere, we like to hire driven characters who share our passion and approach, bringing their style and flare. We see ourselves as trusted partners to our clients and believe in transparency, quality and integrity above all else, always pushing the boundaries to deliver the best outcomes for our clients. Other key factors we value and seek will be:

  • most of our roles have a hands-on element across projects, so experience in a business transformation setting, either at enterprise level or in large-scale delivery.
  • Proven experience in data engineering and architecture, with a focus on developing scalable cloud solutions in Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric and or / Azure Databricks.
  • Depth of knowledge and understanding across core orchestration tools and CI/CD pipelines to enhance development efficiency and deployment effectiveness, including Azure DevOps
  • Considerable experience designing and building operationally efficient pipelines, utilising core Azure components, such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks and Pyspark etc
  • Proven experience in modelling data through a medallion-based architecture, with curated dimensional models in the gold layer built for analytical use
  • Strong understanding and or use of unity catalog alongside core databricks functionality to drive metadata management
  • Strong understanding of cloud economics, including cost management strategies and optimising solutions for customer needs.
  • Experience with infrastructure as code, proficiency using tools such as Terraform to automate and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring both consistency and scalability across environments
  • Certifications in relevant technologies and methodologies, such as certified solutions architect or data engineer credentials from Microsoft Azure and or Databricks.
  • Ability to inspire, lead, and manage a diverse team of data engineers, fostering an environment that promotes professional growth and high performance.
  • Experience working withing an Agile delivery team and effectively collaborating with cross functional teams

?? The "Nice to Have's" for us are:

  • Prior experience in a consultancy setting, demonstrating the ability to navigate the unique challenges and dynamics of consulting with various clients and industries.
  • Knowledge or specialisation in specific industries such as financial services, telecoms, ecommerce or retail, which can help tailor data solutions more effectively to client needs.
  • Experience in building PowerBI semantic models for downstream visualisation consumption
  • Prior experience in building custom power apps, proficiency in design and build, including both canvas and custom driven apps.
  • Knowledge and or experience in data management tools

We also really value collaboration and teamwork, making sure we work together to solve problems and share learnings as a team.

As a Lead Data Engineer, you'll not only share these values but demonstrate them in your day to day, whilst also bring your own personality and approach to the role. We're looking for someone with the following experience and qualities, but if you don't fit these exactly and are interested in working for us, get in touch anyway - we hire people, not job specs.

We're not a standard consultancy and neither are our benefits - they are?enhanced. You can view more on our?Benefits here.

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