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As a Principal Data Engineer at West Monroe, you will lead the design, implementation, and optimization of data solutions that empower our clients to make data-driven decisions. You will play a critical role in shaping data strategies, mentoring teams, and ensuring the delivery of scalable and efficient data systems. This role requires deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, and strong leadership skills to drive innovation and business impact.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Collaborate with senior leadership and stakeholders to define data strategies and roadmaps aligned with business objectives.
- Solution Design: Architect robust, scalable, and secure data solutions, including data pipelines, warehouses, lakes, and analytics platforms.
- Data Governance: Establish and enforce data governance frameworks, ensuring data quality, security, and compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Team Leadership: Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation. Lead technical teams in delivering high-quality projects on time and within scope.
- Technology Evaluation: Stay ahead of emerging technologies and trends, evaluating and recommending tools, platforms, and frameworks to enhance data capabilities.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with business analysts, data scientists, and software engineers to integrate data solutions into broader business applications.
- Client Engagement: Act as a trusted advisor to clients, providing thought leadership and technical expertise in solving complex data challenges.
- Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, data models, and operational procedures.
- Innovation: Drive innovation by identifying opportunities to leverage AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics in data engineering solutions.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field preferred, or equivalent experience required
- 7-11+ years of work experience in a data environment, preferably with expeirence at a consulting firm
- Development of or architecture of modern distributed architectures using modern messaging patterns and tools
- Strong data engineering experience with the following core competencies:
- Expertise within Databricks.
- Experience working with relational databases (Microsoft SQL Server) and working with large unstructured data sets
- Strong experience with ETL procedures and ideation from scratch
- Experience using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, etc.
- Experience with reporting tools such as Microsoft PowerBI and Tableau
- Working knowledge or experience working with Azure SQL, Azure Data Lake or Azure Data Factory.
- Experience in working with in a fast-paced, collaborative, and team-based project environment
- Ability to lead and mentor other team members or developers while leading projects
- A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives
- Willingness to travel for out of town client engagements (30 to 50%)
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role can vary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (see table below). Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
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The combination of business and technology is not new, but how we bring them together is unique. We’re fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer, but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.
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