Overview

Staff Engineer (Data Engineering) – A leading tech and data company is looking for a Staff Engineer within their Data Engineering function to provide architectural expertise and guidance on overall solutions to be delivered. You will be working on operational excellence and supporting the extensive data platform and the bespoke streaming platform. This is a permanent role based in central London with a hybrid working model.

Responsibilities

• The data engineering team manages and works on multiple streams and projects that have a high impact and importance for the business.
• This role sits within the Core Data Platform (CDP) team, which is split into two teams: the Platform team that focuses on operational excellence and supporting the extensive data platform, and the Streaming team that supports the bespoke streaming platform.
• As a Staff Engineer, you will assume a key position providing architectural expertise and guidance to enable the vision of the overall solution to be delivered.
• You will use your knowledge of the architectural configuration of your product area to influence decisions about tools and technologies that will enhance the service offering.
• This is a technical role; your enthusiasm for exploring new technology and tools will be valued along with your desire to guide others.
• You will have a deep understanding of the services in your area of the business and how you contribute to customer success and positive commercial outcomes.
• You will ensure we maintain our standards of engineering excellence within your area and contribute to company-wide standards, processes, and tools.

Experience / Qualifications

• Strong experience in Data Engineering.
• Creates alignment across teams in their domain, ensuring that best practices and architectural decisions are well understood within the domain.
• Capable of setting short- to medium-term strategies for services and products, creating designs and roadmaps to communicate and plan changes over time in a domain’s estate; able to align key stakeholders with these strategies.
• Provides direction, advice, and guidance on approaches to delivering services and products.
• Collaborates with and guides other engineers in assessing and evaluating new technologies within the domain.
• Reduces complexity within software, processes, and tools.
• Advocate of engineering excellence within the domain; contributes to engineering standards, processes, and tools across the organization.
• Contributes to the assessment and adoption of standards, processes, and tools across the organization.
• Provides technical input into planning and business case definitions.
• Takes a risk-based approach to decision making and guides other engineers to do the same; ensures risk controls are considered when delivering software.
• Understands the regulatory framework in which the company operates and how it applies to their role and other engineering roles.
• Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka is advantageous.