Senior Data Engineer - Central Services

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We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. At Norton Rose Fulbright, our strategy and our culture are closely entwined. We know that our expansion will mean little unless it is underpinned by truly global collaboration and we understand that pioneering work only takes place when our people have room to move and think beyond boundaries. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. 

Our London office is currently looking for a Senior Data Engineer.

The Role

The Senior Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining the infrastructure and systems required for data storage, processing, and analysis. They play a crucial role in building and managing the data pipelines that enable efficient and reliable data integration, transformation, and delivery for all data users across the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Designs and develops data pipelines that extract data from various sources, transform it into the desired format, and load it into the appropriate data storage systems
• Collaborates with data scientists and analysts to optimize models and algorithms for data quality, security, and governance
• Integrates data from different sources, including databases, data warehouses, APIs, and external systems
• Ensures data consistency and integrity during the integration process, performing data validation and cleaning as needed
• Transforms raw data into a usable format by applying data cleansing, aggregation, filtering, and enrichment techniques
• Optimizes data pipelines and data processing workflows for performance, scalability, and efficiency
• Monitors and tunes data systems, identifies and resolves performance bottlenecks, and implements caching and indexing strategies to enhance query performance
• Implements data quality checks and validations within data pipelines to ensure the accuracy, consistency, and completeness of data
• Takes authority, responsibility, and accountability for exploiting the value of enterprise information assets and of the analytics used to render insights for decision making, automated decisions and augmentation of human performance
• Works with board members and other executives to establish the vision for managing data as a business asset
• Establishes the governance of data and algorithms used for analysis, analytical applications, and automated decision making

Skills and Experience Required

• A bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, software engineering, information systems, or related quantitative field; master’s degree advantageous.           
• At least six years of work experience in data management disciplines, including data integration, modeling, optimization and data quality, or other areas directly relevant to data engineering responsibilities and tasks
• Proven project experience developing and maintaining data warehouses in big data solutions (Snowflake)
• Expert knowledge in Apache technologies such as Kafka, Airflow, and Spark to build scalable and efficient data pipelines
• Ability to design, build, and deploy data solutions that capture, explore, transform, and utilize data to support AI, ML, and BI
• Strong ability in programming languages such as Java, Python, and C/C++
• Ability in data science languages/tools such as SQL, R, SAS, or Excel
• Proficiency in the design and implementation of modern data architectures and concepts such as cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern data warehouse tools (Snowflake, Databricks)
• Proficiency in the design and implementation of modern data architectures (ideally Azure, AWS. Microsoft Fabric, GCP, Data Factory) and modern data warehouse technologies (Snowflake, Databricks)
• Experience with database technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, Oracle, Hadoop, or Teradata
• Ability to collaborate within and across teams of different technical knowledge to support delivery and educate end users on data products
• Expert problem-solving skills, including debugging skills, allowing the determination of sources of issues in unfamiliar code or systems, and the ability to recognize and solve repetitive problems
• Excellent business acumen and interpersonal skills; able to work across business lines at a senior level to influence and effect change to achieve common goals.
• Ability to describe business use cases/outcomes, data sources and management concepts, and analytical approaches/options
• Ability to translate among the languages used by executive, business, IT, and quant stakeholders.

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To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. 
Our new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know here.