Senior Data Engineer

Company Description

Fancy joining a global organisation that is revolutionizing the digital landscape? Today, as clients across industries are moving from digitally extending their businesses to placing digital at the core, Publicis Sapient has an unprecedented opportunity to help them succeed.

Job Description

As a Senior Engineer with our Data Engineering group, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of high-end software products/services that enable the enterprise-scale digital transformation of many of the biggest companies in the world. 

Your role will be focused on delivering solutions that leverage large scale data ingestion, processing, storage/querying, in-stream & batch analytics. As part of a team, you will deliver world-class solutions designed by our senior architects by estimating, designing, coding, testing, deploying and ensuring scalability and performance using the latest frameworks and platforms 

You will also be involved in building technology prototypes for validation and assess technical designs for functional & non-functional completeness. 

As a hands-on technologist with an extensive programming background, you will be excited to join a super talented and supportive community of Data Engineers who are passionate about building the best possible solutions for our clients and endorse a culture of life-long learning and collaboration. 

Qualifications

What You’ll Bring 

• Expertise with one or more of Java (preferable) and Scala programming languages 
• Good experience with Data related technologies, to include Big Data and data-related Cloud services (GCP/Azure/AWS) 
• Good hands-on experience in at least one distributed data processing framework e.g. Spark (Core, Streaming, SQL), Storm, Flink etc 
• Good data modelling experience to address scale and read/write performance 
• Hands-on working knowledge of NoSQL and MPP data platforms like Hbase, Mongo DB, Cassandra, AWS Redshift, Azure SQLDW, GCP BigQuery etc. 
• Working knowledge of data platform related services on at least 1 Cloud platform to cover IAM and data security 
• Hands-on skills - building DevOps pipelines for data solutions, automated testing 

You’ll Also Likely Have Some Of The Following 

• Sound awareness of the larger data technology ecosystem including Hadoop, open-source frameworks as well as cloud services across batch and stream processing 
• Experience in tuning and optimizing big data solutions 
• Experience in data security (at-rest/in-transit) 
• Knowledge of distributed messaging frameworks like ActiveMQ / RabbitMQ / Solace/ Kafka, search & indexing and Microservices architectures 
• Exposure to data governance, catalog, lineage and associated tools 
• A certification in one or more cloud platforms or big data technologies 
• Demonstrated participation in the Data Engineering thought community (e.g. blogs, keynote sessions, POV/POC, hackathons) 

About You 

• You will enjoy client-facing and/or consulting roles 
• You’ll have good communication and presentation skills 
• You’ll have good general analytical and problem-solving skills 
• You will pick up new technologies quickly, compare/contrast by way of POCs as well as research 
• You’ll be a self-starter who requires minimal oversight and be able to prioritize and manage multiple tasks 
• You will likely have a Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field 

Additional Information

What’s in it for you? 

There is a superb package of benefits waiting for you at Publicis Sapient. 

We cover all the basics generously, with 25 days paid annual leave, life assurance, dental insurance, income protection, private healthcare for you AND your family (pre-existing conditions included), and a pension. 

The learning opportunities here are endless. Most importantly, of course, there’s the chance to be part of a game-changing organisation that celebrates creative thinking and empowerment. 

The creature comforts are super: free barista coffee bar (the best in town), gym-fee reimbursement and working in the most exciting, colourful and diverse local area you could imagine. 

Flexibility and mobility are needed for this role. You might need to spend time on-site with our clients to deliver our world-class services. 

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​