Principal Data Engineer

Our Principal Data Engineers are responsible for leading and delivering strategically significant, complex client engagements across our portfolio of clients. We believe that great delivery stems from a thorough understanding of our clients and their needs, strong discipline skills and subject matter expertise, excellent leadership and a clear vision of lasting and effective change in a public sector environment. We expect our Principal Data Engineers to bring all of that and enthuse our delivery teams with the same passion.

The successful candidate will lead the Data Engineering aspects of our client engagements while overseeing the wider delivery within the account (or industry) when appropriate. They will coach and develop team members on their engagements providing them with detailed performance feedback, as well as monitoring overall delivery to achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction. In addition, our Principal Data Engineers are responsible for engaging with our clients to understand their challenges and build lasting, trusted advisor relationships. They will also oversee multiple, concurrent client deliveries to help ensure quality and drive the sharing of best practice across our engagements and industries.

Our Principal Data Engineers are members of the Data & AI Practice leadership team with the responsibility to develop the capability of the practice to meet business needs and to accelerate the growth of the practice, their account and the wider business. You will be responsible for the practice and service line-specific delivery elements of your engagement/account as well as a shared ownership for the overall delivery of client outcomes. You will leverage your client and delivery insight to support the account and industry teams to identify opportunities and develop client solutions.

The right person for this role will do this by combining their technical discipline/craft experience, leadership skills and industry network with Made Tech's unparalleled experience of delivering digital services and digital transformation for the Public Sector.

• Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, provide solution advice in your role as a trusted advisor and shape solutions that leverage Made Tech's wider capabilities and credentials.
• Assess project performance as part of the billable delivery team, QA the deliverables and outcomes, and ensure client satisfaction.
• Coach and mentor team members as well as providing direction to enable them to achieve their engagement outcomes and to develop their careers.
• Act as a Technical Authority of the Data & AI capability to provide oversight and ensure alignment with internal and industry best practices.
• Ensure engagement experience is captured and used to improve standards and contribute to Made Tech knowledge.
• Participate in business development activities, including bids and pre‑sales within the account, industry and practice.
• Coach team members on their contributions and oversee the relevant technical aspects of the proposal submission.
• Undertake people management responsibilities, including performance reviews and professional development of your engagement and practice colleagues.
• Serve as a thought leader within Made Tech, our account engagements and the wider public sector and represent the company at industry events.

Clients

• Understanding of the issues and challenges that the public sector faces in delivering services that make the best use of data and digital capabilities, transforming legacy infrastructure, and taking an innovative and user‑centric approach.
• Ability to innovate and take learnings from the commercial sector, other countries and advances in technology and apply them to UK Public Sector challenges to create tangible solutions for our clients.
• Experience building trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders within the public sector.

Leadership

• Experience of building and leading high performing, consulting teams and creating leveraged engagements to provide a cost‑effective, profitable, successful client‑facing delivery.
• Leadership of bids and solution shaping to produce compelling proposals that help Made Tech win new business and grow the industry.
• Experience of managing third‑party partnerships and suppliers (in conjunction with Made Tech colleagues) to provide a consolidated and seamless delivery team to clients.

Practice

• Experience in delivering complex and difficult engagements that span multiple capabilities for user‑facing digital and data services in the public sector.
• Experience in identifying opportunities based on client needs and developing targeted solutions to progress the development of the opportunity.
• Experience of working with sales professionals and commercial responsibility for strategic organisational goals.

Data Engineering

• While this is not a hands‑on coding technical role, the importance of credibility in approach to digital, data and technology in the public sector cannot be understated. You will be expected to maintain a broad technical knowledge of modern data practices, be able to shape data strategy and roadmaps, and hold others to account for technical quality.
• Experience working directly with customers and users within a technology consultancy.
• Expertise in shaping data strategy and approaches to quality, ethics and governance.
• Experience in developing a data capability or function combining data science, analytics and engineering.
• Strong understanding of various architectures including data warehouses, data lakes, data lake houses and data mesh.
• Strong understanding of best practice DataOps and MLOps.
• Up‑to‑date understanding of various data engineering technologies including Apache Spark, Databricks and Hadoop.
• Strong understanding of agile ways of working.
• Up‑to‑date understanding of various programming languages including Python, Scala, R and SQL.
• Up‑to‑date understanding of various databases and cloud‑based datastores including SQL and NoSQL.
• Up‑to‑date understanding of cloud platforms including AWS and/or Azure and their data offerings.
• Evidence of self‑development – we value keen learners.

30 days Holiday – we offer 30 days of paid annual leave + bank holidays.

Flexible Parental Leave – we offer flexible parental leave options.

Remote Working – we offer part time remote working for all our staff.

Paid counselling – we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice.

An increasing number of our customers are specifying a minimum of SC (security check) clearance in order to work on their projects. As a result, we’re looking for all successful candidates for this role to have eligibility. Eligibility for SC requires 5 years’ of continuous UK residency. Please note that if at any point during the interview process it is apparent that you may not be eligible for SC, we won’t be able to progress your application and we will contact you to let you know why.

Made Tech is on a mission to use technology to improve society – for everyone. We help organisations transform, deliver and manage world‑class digital products and services. Today, you can see our services (and people!) in action, such as the design and build of the Homes for Ukraine service, delivered in 2 weeks. We’re helping local authorities make it easier and quicker for people to log housing repairs online. By digitalising access to NHS services we’re making it more accessible, such as children needing mental health support. All this great experience is enabling us to support new areas, like energy. We’re helping to drive better environmental outcomes by improving network performance through real‑time asset monitoring, which means less wasted energy. We were recently named as a finalist in the Raising the Bar for Workplace Transparency Award in the Shift People Awards. This is a recognition of our many great initiatives, such as our open‑access employee handbook that we launched 5 years ago.