Senior Data Engineer

About Us

We’re an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers. Since 1993 we’ve been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world’s leading organizations and delivered solutions that millions of people use every day.

In the last 30 years we won several awards, including our most recent inclusion in the Forbes World's Best Management Consulting Firms report.

Operating from 26 locations across the world, we bring together teams of creative experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences, who enjoy working and learning in our collaborative and open culture and are committed to world-class delivery.

We have an established presence in the United States for over ten years. With offices in New York City, Columbus, Ohio and Houston, Texas we offer a local touch with a global reach.

We want to continue to grow and need people just like you!

About the Role

We are looking for a talented Senior Data Engineer who wants to take the next step in their career and join our Data, Analytics and AI / ML practice. You’ll be a technical authority at the center of our engagements, managing technical risk and creating real business value. You’ll be willing to be hands-on when you need to be and seek to balance innovation and intellectual rigor with realism.

We’re looking for someone who can contribute to a technical culture of the highest quality that learns from our customer deliveries, understands the demands of working in a high pressured and extremely fast paced delivery environment & has the ability to lead, coach and mentor junior and senior staff.

You will work with talented, innovative, and creative Data & AI / ML technologists to design and implement the right data engineering and architecture choices for our clients. You will also lean into your technology knowledge to help define and contribute to our data accelerators.

About You

You’ll bring extensive data, cloud and technology experience gained through a combination of industry and consulting roles. You will be comfortable developing and strengthening peer-to-peer level relationships at all levels with our clients.

Ideally, you will have as much of the following experience as possible:

• In-depth understanding of the modern cloud data architecture stack, including but not limited to relational and non-relational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, data lakehouses etc., and ability to demonstrate how data engineering provides the glue between them
• Experience as a Senior Data Engineer, with experience leading and mentoring data teams
• Strong knowledge of Python and SQL is required. Scala, Java, and/or .Net knowledge is also highly prized
• Strong knowledge of Databricks
• Hands-on experience with major open-source and commercial orchestration, pipeline management, data transformation, workflow and data integration tools
• Strong knowledge of architectural patterns for data ingestion and transformation at scale
• Hands-on experience with data modeling, data architecture, data security, data quality, data governance, data mining, and data analysis and reporting is highly encouraged
• Experience with third-party data vendor integration
• AWS Associate or Specialty certification related to Data. Any additional AWS, Azure and / or GCP certifications are also very much of interest to us
• Experience with MLOps and data engineering for AI / ML is a strong differentiator
• Enthusiastic about working in an agile delivery environment

Other areas of interest to us that would strengthen your candidacy include:

• Defining Future State Data Architecture
• Defining Data migration repeatable patterns
• DevOps experience
• Knowledge of Snowflake, Synapse and / or Fabric
• Knowledge of financial services or other industry verticals
• Experience of business development activities and developing client accounts
• Strong record of leadership
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Comfortable working effectively with people at all levels in an organization
• Adept at communicating complex ideas effectively
• You have the expertise and confidence to work with a range of partners across diverse business and technology communities
• You have energy and a pragmatic delivery-focused attitude that wins the respect of those around you and makes you a trusted technical advisor
• You love technology and want to keep on learning. You’re genuinely interested in understanding the challenges your users face and how you can help them

Some of the Perks

• 20 days paid vacation per year and 12 BJSS holidays
• 5 paid sick days
• Competitive medical, dental and vision plans employer funded 80%
• 4 x salary Life and AD&D
• Commuter benefits
• 401K plan (BJSS will contribute 3% of salary into your 401K)
• An industry-leading referral scheme, with no limits on the number of referrals
• Our roles are not fully remote as we take pride in the tight knit communities we have created at our local offices. But we offer plenty of flexibility and we fully support you in allocating your time between the office, client sites and WFH as our client and business needs dictate
• Training opportunities and incentives – we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles, including unlimited access to O’Reilly
• You will become part of a squad with people from different areas within the business who will help you grow at BJSS
• A collaborative and inspiring environment working alongside some of the best tech people in the industry
• We partner with Lifeworks to offer wellbeing support to our employees

Working Restrictions

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

BJSS will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship.