16 days ago
Worthing, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead Hove-based data engineering teams and shape solution direction, delivery approaches, engineering standards, and technical outcomes.
- Own local engineering delivery assurance, governance, design reviews, and commercially sound technical decisions.
- Grow the Hove-based capability through recruitment, junior talent programmes, onboarding, mentoring, and community engagement.
- Lead modernisation across legacy systems, cloud platforms, and contemporary data engineering practices.
- Build trusted relationships with clients, partners, and internal stakeholders while clarifying complex technical and delivery decisions.
- Identify and shape growth opportunities, including new work, capability development, bid support, and broader use of data engineering capability.
Requirements
- Strong experience as a senior data engineer or engineering lead owning complex data delivery across multiple teams, projects, or programmes.
- Experience mentoring, coaching, recruiting, or developing engineers and supporting a wider engineering community.
- Deep knowledge of data integration, transformation, orchestration, modelling, quality, observability, performance, security, and operational support.
- Credibility across modern data platforms and cloud technologies, with pragmatism in enterprise and legacy environments.
- Experience setting, governing, and improving engineering standards, quality controls, reusable patterns, and delivery processes.
- Strong stakeholder management and the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to senior clients and internal leaders.
- Commercial awareness when balancing quality, cost, maintainability, profitability, delivery confidence, and client satisfaction.
- Experience with SQL, data modelling, ETL/ELT, data pipelines, batch and real-time integration, AWS cloud data platforms, and analytical platforms.
- Experience with Python, Bash, workflow orchestration and scheduling tools, data quality, testing, observability, and operational resilience.
- Ability to obtain UK Security Check clearance, including continuous UK residence for the last five years.
Benefits
- Hybrid working across company offices, client sites, and home, with the role typically requiring 40–70% of time in the Hove office.
- Opportunities to build a local data engineering capability, develop people, shape engineering culture, and support business growth.
- Employment is subject to pre-employment checks covering identity, nationality or immigration status, three years of employment history, and an unspent criminal record check.
About Capgemini
Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.