Senior Data Engineer Perform Plus - Manager

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Job description

PwC is one of the world's leading professional services organisations and a trusted adviser to some of the largest organisations around the world, spanning the public, private, and financial sectors. The increasing availability and use of data requires all of these organisations to adapt quickly or face irrelevance. As part of our data strategy we are transforming and expanding our D&A team and are looking for keen, innovative, driven data engineer to join us as part of this exciting opportunity

PwC's Data & Analytics is a well established team of data strategists, architects, scientists, and engineers who help client teams harness the power of information to drive insight, optimise business performance and commercialise data opportunities.

Consulting

In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

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Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

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We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join the Perform Plus and Digital Centre of Excellence team, part of PwC Consulting. Your role will initially be focused on data engineering supporting development of data insights in Perform Plus - PwC's award winning operational excellence approach powered by smart technology and data. Perform Plus is a team sprint/huddle solution that allows clients teams and individuals to improve their performance, change behaviours and manage challenges in their work. You will also get involved in the development of a new Digital Centre of Excellence to help develop a next generation of PwC Consulting products, that use modern data science, engineering and technology approaches.

As a Senior Data Engineer you will have a proven track record of designing and delivering data engineering solutions on cloud to support analytics use cases. You will be experienced in modern approaches to data pipelines, and should be skilled in data transformation, supporting analytics as part of production ready solutions on cloud.

You will be a strong communicator, consultant and advocate for modern approaches. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to manage small project teams and inspire others to solve problems, under pressure, end-to-end with data.

Requirements

• Educated to degree level in - for example - Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or other STEM, or have equivalent experience.

• A strong team player with empathy, humility and dedication to joint success and shared development;

• Candidates must have demonstrable practical project experience (professional, academic or personal), able to demonstrate the following skills:

  • The intellectual curiosity and drive to seek out, learn, and then apply new data techniques and tools in a fast paced environment

  • Show experience in owning client relationships and managing them throughout the engagement lifecycle;

  • Commercially curious: we want you to be able to understand a business area and its strategic outcomes, the business processes and metrics that drive performance;

Technical skills required:

• Strong experience of modern ETL approaches on cloud (e.g. Data Factory, Apache Beam, Pub/Sub, CI/CD pipelines, Cloud Functions, Relational Databases, NoSQL databases).

• Strong experience in SQL and Python, and optionally other languages (Go, Java etc).

• Strong experience in designing data models and transformation for insights.

• Optional experience in supporting pre-processing for machine learning and deep learning use cases, e.g. in DataBricks/Spark and/or Tensorflow.

• Practical understanding of Data & Analytics Architectures, definition of KPIs / metrics and insight requirements

• Experience in broader set of capabilities of cloud and how they integrate and interact with data engineering.

Consulting
In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients' business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries - everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.

The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

Learn more here:

The Deal
We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have 'The Deal'.
Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition:

Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.