12 days ago
Manchester, United Kingdom +3 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Shape growth opportunities, bid support, capability development, and use of data engineering capability across the wider practice.
- Assess ambiguous or emerging work and define the required technical, delivery, leadership, and capability response.
- Create roadmaps covering portfolio demand, skills, investment priorities, and future capability needs.
- Define engineering capability requirements and identify capability gaps across the Data Portfolio.
- Provide technical leadership across data integration, data engineering, data architecture, data quality and testing, analytics, reporting, visualization, operations, and support.
- Establish engineering standards, best practices, and guardrails while promoting automation, AI-assisted engineering, DevOps, and cloud-first delivery.
- Mentor senior engineers, develop future technical leaders, support succession planning, and promote continuous learning.
- Advise senior portfolio and practice leaders and influence engineering capability investment decisions.
- Work with Delivery Managers and Chief Engineers to address emerging demand and risks.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in data engineering, data architecture, or data technology leadership roles.
- Experience operating across large-scale data programmes or portfolios.
- Proven ability to assess ambiguous or emerging demand, define a strategic response, and produce practical portfolio roadmaps.
- Experience building and growing technical communities.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
- Demonstrable leadership of engineering transformation, modernization, or capability improvement initiatives.
- Strong understanding of modern data integration and ETL/ELT platforms, SQL, data modelling, cloud data platforms and services, DevOps, automation, data architecture, data engineering practices, AI-enabled engineering, data governance, and data quality.
- Demonstrated strategic thinking, technical leadership, commercial awareness, consultancy, stakeholder management, influencing, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance, including continuous residence in the United Kingdom for the last five years.
Benefits
- Hybrid working across company offices, client sites, and home, with no option to work from home 100% of the time.
- Wellbeing support including Mental Health Champions and wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
- Professional community, learning, knowledge-sharing, and career development opportunities.
- Pre-employment checks include identity, nationality or immigration status, three years of employment history, and an unspent criminal record check.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
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.