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Job Description - Principal Data Engineer

Principal Data Engineer

Location: Bristol (hybrid)

Salary: Competitive + 28% pension contributions

Job type: Permanent/fulltime or 6 - 12 month contract (both option available)

Summary of any essential experience required for the role

  • Strong Python programming knowledge, ideally Pyspark
  • Knowledge of the Azure Databricks platform and associated functionalities
  • Adaptable, with a willingness to work flexibly as the needs of the organisation evolve.
  • Working well within a team, and able to work closely with internal and external stakeholders.
  • An ability to take a logical and analytical approach, and to take a pragmatic, collaborative approach to solving problems.
  • Adept at communicating technical concepts to a nontechnical audience.
  • Awareness of the modern data stack and associated methodologies

You will be a key individual contributor and be responsible for:

  • Building and developong re-useable pipelines for analytics and AI projects
  • Pushing for innovation within the platform to enable great efficiencies and detailed insights and outputs
  • Leading key relationships between IT and Data to grow the platform and release new capabilities
  • Deploying production AI models with automated monitoring from the data pipeline to the model runs and outputs

As well as supporting the team responsibilities on:

  • Work to Extract, Load & Transform (ELT) data sets from a variety of data sources across the clients enterprise technology stack. With a particular focus to the Extract & Load parts.
  • Monitoring the execution of data workflows, including identifying and mitigating risks, setting service level indicators and configuring alerts.
  • Adopting data governance best practice when processing raw data to develop, test and maintain datasets, including the use and maintenance of relevant resources (such as, but not limited to, a data catalogue, data dictionary, logical data models).
  • Developing coding standards for Python programming to be used across the Data function

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