Senior Data Engineer


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Accenture Ireland

Listed on

1st September 2017

Location

Dublin

Salary/Rate

Competitive

Salary Notes

Competitive

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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The Dock is a multidisciplinary research and incubation hub, where designers, doctors, visionaries and makers are doing things that matter for people, places and robots. Located in the heart of the Dublin Dockland in a connected, state-of-the-art workspace designed for creativity, collaboration and fun.

We are looking for Senior Data Engineers to join our growing team. Operating across all stages of the innovation spectrum, with a remit to build the future in real-time. The working environment is open and interactive, facilitating collaboration with colleagues, clients, customers and ecosystem partners. Our experimentation culture, combined with a disruptive brief empowers us to break future ground.

What we are looking for?

We’re looking for talented Senior Data Engineers with a strong interest in new and emerging technologies. You have strong data modelling skills and confidence handling complex data, structured and unstructured; you are capable of quickly integrating data sources and feeds to empower rapid application development within an Agile environment.

What you will be doing

We’re looking for talented Senior Data Engineers with a strong interest in new and emerging technologies. You have strong data modelling skills and confidence in handling complex data, structured and unstructured; you are capable of quickly integrating data sources and feeds to empower rapid application development within an Agile environment.

Why Agile?

Agile professionals define an adaptive model based on greater collaboration and communication between teams; Agile is a cultural change that impacts people, processes and tools in different ways across the organisation; based on iterative, time boxed and incremental approach, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams. Agile promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery and encourages a rapid and flexible response to change.

What you will be doing

We are looking for a talented Senior Data engineer to join Accenture’s Centre for Innovation. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team to drive the design and engineering of data components, layers and integration scenarios. As a member of the Software Engineering team of the centre for Innovation, you will be leading the data-aspect of innovative concepts. You will be working on defining data models, designing and engineering data integration/processing components to meet tight data quality and data-access performance targets. You will be providing expertise in advanced data engineering topics. You will be making justified recommendations on data modelling practices, tools and specific technologies to consider.

Your skills and qualifications

Required:

- BS/MS degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science or related field

- 8+ years of experience in working with data-intensive software projects

- Extensive experience of data storage technologies (RDBMS such as MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server; NoSQL e.g. Cassandra, MongoDB; Data Marts & Data Lakes)

- Extensive experience in designing and engineering data transformation with ETL tools

- Experience with data-intensive projects involving Big Data, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence

- Programming/scripting languages: e.g. Java, Scala, Python, R

- Cloud services: e.g. AWS/Azure/Google Cloud/Openstack

- RESTful Web services and Micro services for data collection/access

- Experience with agile development (SCRUM, Kanban, etc.)

- Strong communication and presentation skills

-Experience with Linux/Unix

Preferred:

- Distributed Messaging: e.g. Kafka and Zookeeper

- Batch processing frameworks: e.g. Spark

- Real time processing frameworks: e.g. Spark Streaming, Storm, Flink

- Experience with Data Analysis and Visualization platforms

-Exposure to BI platforms: IBM Cognos, Microstrategy, Microsoft BI or related

About Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with more than 373,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. The Dock at Accenture is a multidisciplinary research and incubation hub, as an accelerator for Accenture and our clients to unlock value. Launched in Sept 2015, the global innovation centre brings together top talent under three disciplines; designers, developers and domain experts with expertise in AI, IoT, digital marketing, cyber security, advanced analytics and tech development.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation or gender identity.

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