We are seeking a talented and experienced Data Engineering leader to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of data at Chambers and Partners.
In this role, you'll design, build, and deploy innovative solutions across our products, platforms, and applications. You'll lead by example as a technical expert, ensuring the highest standards of data engineering and quality assurance are consistently met.
As the go-to Data Lead for your project or area, you'll drive performance, share expertise, and inspire your team to excel. You'll manage a skilled team of data engineers, fostering a culture of best practices and continuous improvement. Your leadership will help ensure that our data projects meet the highest standards while contributing to the implementation of our ambitious data strategy and transformation roadmap.
If you're passionate about leading a diverse and innovative team in a collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead a team of data engineers to effectively create, optimise and maintain automated systems and processes across a given project(s) or technical domain.
- Write clean and testable code using SQL and Python scripting languages, to enable our customer data products and business applications
- Build and manage data pipelines and notebooks, deploying code in a structured, trackable and safe manner
- Effectively create, optimise and maintain automated systems and processes across a given project(s) or technical domain
- Data Analyse, profile and plan work, aligned with project priorities
- Perform reviews of code, refactoring where necessary
- Deploy code in a structured, trackable and safe manner
- Document your data developments and operational procedures
- Ensure adherence to data/software delivery standards and effective delivery.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team and to the team’s ability to make and deliver on their commitments
- Innovate and experiment with technology to deliver real business benefits.
- Regularly launch products and services based on your work and be an integral part of making these a success.
- Guide, influence and challenge the technology team and stakeholders to understand the benefits, pros and cons of various technical options.
- Promote an innovative thinking process and encourage it in others.
- Lead the development of technical specifications and architecture
Person Specification
- A passionate Lead Data Engineer with a history of driving his or her own technical and professional development.
- Worked in the media, publishing, research, or a similar consumer focused industry. (Highly Desirable)
- Able to clearly communicate with business and technology stakeholders.
- Attention to Detail, focused on the finer details that make the difference.
- Delivery Focus, pragmatic and driven to get solutions live.
- Able to Lead, providing thought leadership in the data domain.
- A Proactive attitude. A self-starter who seeks out opportunities for yourself and your team.
- Awareness of industry and consumer trends
- Awareness of and the ability to manage business and technology expectations.
- Able to build strong personal relationships and trust.
- Able to sell ideas or visions. Influence and advise stakeholders at all levels
Skills and Experience
- Extensive professional Data experience
- Excellent understanding of DataBricks and PySpark
- Excellent understanding of SQL and CosmosDB databases
- Excellent knowledge of designing, constructing, administering, and maintaining data warehouses and data lakes.
- Knowledge of Azure Cloud Services and data warehouse technologies around Azure
- Proven track record of leading development projects and teams.
- Excellent knowledge of T-SQL programming
- Experience with Tableau, PowerBI or similar data visualisation platforms
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- Highly driven, positive attitude, team player, self-motivated and very flexible
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting
- Good time management skills
- Knowledge of agile methodology
- Knowledge of GitHub and branching strategies
- Prioritisation skills to handle fast passed dynamic environment
About us:
Chambers and Partners is the world’s leading legal rankings and insights intelligence company.
For over 30 years, Chambers has differentiated the very best legal talent by identifying and ranking law firms and lawyers globally.
The Chambers’ research methodology is unrivalled in accuracy, depth and quality, delivering indispensable data insights based on rankings that truly reflect ability and talent.
Over the past 12 months, Chambers has embarked on a business transformation project, with the goal of building on its reputation as the gold standard in legal rankings and directories to develop a world class range of digital products and data analytics services.
Our Purpose is to differentiate the best legal talent for when it really matters. Our Mission is to independently research the global legal market, to champion exceptional talent and deliver indispensable insights. And our Vision is a world where important legal matters are always addressed with the best intelligence and professional expertise, wherever it exists.
We continue to invest and innovate to deliver data-led platforms, enabling law firms to provide the right services and in-house counsel to partner with the right firms.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We are committed to fostering and promoting an inclusive professional environment for all of our employees, and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity and inclusion are integral values of Chambers and Partners and are key in our culture. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals regardless of age, disability, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. This commitment applies across all of our employment policies and practices, from recruiting and hiring to training and career development. We support our employees through our internal INSPIRE committee with Executive Sponsors, Chairs and Ambassadors throughout the business promoting knowledge and effecting change. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview.