Principal Data Engineer
We seek on behalf of our client a energy provider a Principal data engineer for Digital Customers & Markets. You will lead data engineering across their customer-facing businesses as well as Trading & Shipping, Gas & Low Carbon.
The Principal Data Engineer will drive big data & analytics data strategy to combine tech expertise with business acumen and data domain knowledge. You will be hands-in defining and building data products. You will manage a number of individuals as well as 3rd party contractors.
About the job:
- Leads a team of data engineers that build software that integrate quality-assured data.
- Drives an inclusive environment with collaboration between cross-disciplinary teams and stakeholders across multiple business entities.
- Architects and designs reliable and scalable data infrastructure.
- Ensures your team adheres to best practises (e.g. technical design, technical design review, unit testing, monitoring & alerting, checking in code, code review, documentation),
- Responsible for service reliability.
- Actively contributes to improve developer velocity
About you:
- Experience leading a data engineering team of around 30-150 people.
- Deep and hands-on experience designing, planning, productionizing, maintaining, and documenting reliable and scalable data infrastructure and data products in complex environments.
- Development experience in one or more object-oriented programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Java, C++).
- Experience large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep knowledge in technologies across all data lifecycle stages.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- CI/CD.
- BS degree in computer science or related field.
- Experience in retail and/or supply chain data.
- Experience in AWS and/or Azure native data platforms.
