Data Technical Lead

What You Can Expect

• Work to agile best practices and cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders. You’ll be using your technical skills to problem solve with our clients, as well as working on internal projects
• Steer technical teams through complex challenges and guide our clients towards successful digital transformations
• Provide mentorship to engineers and create an environment of continuous improvement
• Live in-person whiteboarding sessions to problem solve as a team, alongside asynchronous communication on Teams
• Help teams use GenAI effectively across engineering delivery, applying the right practices, controls and guardrails.
• Hybrid working with the team on client site or in our office a minimum of two days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.
• An environment that deeply cares about its values

Qualifications

Essential requirements

Even if you do not meet every requirement below, we encourage you to apply. We often recruit for related roles where your experience may be a strong fit.

You Will Have Demonstrable Experience Of:

• Technically led data engineering or data platform teams, setting direction while enabling engineers to own and deliver solutions.
• Designed and delivered modern data platforms that are scalable, reliable and cost-effective in enterprise environments.
• Making sound architectural decisions across ingestion, storage, processing, modelling, orchestration and serving.
• Applying strong software engineering practices to data platforms, including testing, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.
• Establishing effective approaches to data quality, observability, governance, metadata and security.
• Leading data platform modernisation and migration, including coexistence, cutover and decommissioning.
• Making pragmatic technology choices and understanding the trade-offs between platform, storage, processing and integration patterns.
• Shaping the end-to-end engineering lifecycle, improving how teams build, test, deploy and operate software and data products.
• Communicating clearly with engineers, clients and senior stakeholders, and can establish credibility quickly in complex delivery environments.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, challenge assumptions and turn business problems into practical technical solutions.
• Providing technical input into bids, proposals and client discussions, including shaping solution approaches and implementation plans.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.

All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.

We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.

Additional information

Assessment process

• Quick video call with one of our Tech Recruiters – to discuss your application, the role and PA
• Round 1: Competency interview (45 minutes)
• Round 2: Technical interview (90 mins face to face)
• Final round: Meeting with a PA leader - a discussion around your client-centricity (30 mins face to face)

Life At PA

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We Are Dedicated To Supporting The Physical, Emotional, Social And Financial Well-being Of Our People. Check Out Some Of Our Extensive Benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com

Job information

Firm: PA Consulting

Location: London, United Kingdom

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