principal data Engineer

What working at Zuhlke is all about.
We work on Projects for purpose, making it our mission to give our work a deeper meaning, ensuring we are focused on creating positive change through technology and digital innovation. We are Flexible, offering a variety of working options to cater to our people's needs. We pride ourselves on having a Growth mindset with a strong learning culture and we invest in learning and development but also believe strongly in learning on the job and through mentorship and coaching. Sustainability is one of our top strategic goals. We are carbon neutral as a business, and we are strategically positioning our business offerings in decarbonisation, healthcare and green energy to help clients develop sustainable digital solutions. We care about the work we do. Diversity and inclusion are also high on the agenda. We are constantly looking to improve and develop, increasing diversity and developing a more inclusive workplace for all.

Your role includes.

• Being a trusted advisor, guiding our customers towards a successful technical solution to their data challenges.
• Communicating the what, why and how of proposed solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Understanding the big data world whilst developing, testing, and monitoring distributed data processing pipelines.
• Extrapolating versatile data sets and sources to produce high quality, reproducible datasets in a scalable and maintainable way.
• Collaborating with different data roles such as Architects, Software Engineers and Data Scientists with ease.
• Understanding the needs of multiple types of producers and consumers for our data services, ensuring our products meet their requirements.
• Delivering projects in an Agile way, building iteratively to produce value from data early and frequently.
• Keeping yourself technically sharp, being open to learning new concepts and technologies.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues and clients, be it onsite, in the Zuhlke office, or from home.

We would love to hear from you if you have ANY of the following:
We encourage our data engineers to be open to learn new technology on a project-by-project basis. We are looking for Data Engineers who have a sample of the following skills and experience:

• At least 6 years of experience in total at Data Engineer or at a similar role
• Experience of designing, building and maintaining data products that meet the needs of data consumers.
• An understanding of common approaches to data analysis, machine learning and data visualisation so you can produce the right data for data consumers.
• Experience with a variety of approaches to data architectures (e.g. Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data Warehouse, streaming, batch processing)
• Hands-on experience with databases both relational and NoSQL.
• Familiarity with big data infrastructures and concepts for storing and processing large and/or heterogeneous data volumes.
• Practical knowledge of handling varied types of structured and unstructured data (text, tabular, graph, time-series, geospatial, image, etc.).
• Working knowledge of containerisation and public and private Cloud environments.
• Knowledgeable about information security and data governance.
• Excellent and practical data programming skills with experience in different programming languages like Java or Python.
• You have experience delivering projects to deadlines, with an emphasis on quality, ideally in client facing contexts.

You would have the opportunity to work with a variety of technologies and tools, including:

• Programming Languages - Java, Python, SQL.
• Cloud environments - AWS/GCP/Azure
• Big Data Frameworks - Hadoop, Spark, Kafka
• Databases - PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Hive
• Orchestration and Containerisation - Airflow, Docker

Behaviors:

• You're open, proactive, responding to changes quickly and with agility while learning in the process
• You maximise benefit as simply as possible but as complexly as needed
• You recognize and seize opportunities confidently and take an entrepreneurial approach
• You focus on the customer and guide them from the concept phase through to market success
• You're able to persuade people through clear communication, negotiation skills, empathy and an ability to see things from others' perspective
• You establish long-term, partnership-oriented relationships and develop and maintain them
• You think and act in the interests of the organisation as a whole and utilise synergies
• You take personal initiative in confronting obstacles and failures, have an optimistic overall attitude and take measures to ensure performance in the long term

Learn more about a career in at Zuhlke.
Even if you feel you don't meet all the requirements yet, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application!
We are Stonewall Diversity Champions. Stonewall is an organisation who is committed to LGBTQ+ inclusion and provides guidance to companies who are members and share the same values.
We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.

A career at Zühlke is a constant journey of personal growth - from learning to knowledge exchange, helping others grow to driving innovation topics and shaping the development of the company.

• Committed to development: We dedicate 10% of our turnover to support employees' growth and development on skills, to fit you and Zuhlke perfectly.
• Deliver meaningful work: Experience working in distributed teams within a global company with 16 offices working with regional and global clients on cross-border transformative projects.
• Good work-life balance: A family-friendly workplace with the possibility to work from home, and 18 days of annual leave to support your healthy work-life balance.
• Profit sharing scheme: We offer profit sharing as defined by the company's success in the previous year in addition to your annual salary.
• Healthcare and medical benefits: Enjoy great work while having a peace of mind for what life might bring you with competitive medical benefits to support your health and well-being.
• Social and employee events: Experience the unique Zühlke culture of working, including annual team camps, local festive celebrations and social events with colleagues across the globe.