Our client, the national mapping agency for the UK is looking for a knowledgeable Senior Data Engineer to join their team

The Senior Data Engineer will provide leadership and expertise in developing new techniques, tools, and pipelines, transforming, and manipulating geospatial data into forms suitable for visualisation, analysis, and further development within your Agile team.

In order to be considered for the Senior Data Engineer role you must.

• Have a degree level qualification in a quantitative discipline or considerable experience in a relevant field, such as statistical modelling or mathematics
• Have experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud Services (or similar)
• Have experience working with any of the following: Databricks, Spark, FME, ESRI geoprocessing
• Have line Management experience and be able to provide technical coaching and mentoring to your team.
• Be able to demonstrate how you can influence key business and technical stakeholders and possess strong presentation and consultancy skills
• Any experience with Hadoop, Elasticsearch, TensorFlow, Keras, or equivalent big data processing and machine learning technologies would be highly desired as would any expertise with Geospatial data processing and analysis techniques.

The Senior Data Engineer will be able to provide insight and experience to advise data-driven decision making. Your focus will be on building, maintaining, and solving data processing systems to meet business requirements, with an emphasis on security, reliability, fault-tolerance, scalability, fidelity, and efficiency.

You will be excited by Researching and utilising cutting-edge technologies to automate and simplify processes. You may work with big data and machine learning technologies such as Azure Databricks, or more traditional geospatial transformation tools, such as FME or ESRI geoprocessing.

As a technical leader in one of our development teams, the primary focus of your day-to-day activities will be data manipulation and delivering data pipelines to aid development. Your leadership will guide other specialists to successful delivery outcomes.

The client is Head Quartered in Southampton, and you can utilise its offices on a hybrid basis, however, they are open to remote working, and you would only travel into the office for meetings.

Apart from an excellent basic salary you can expect, a performance related bonus, competitive pension scheme, generous annual leave entitlement and a suite of excellent additional benefits.