Cloud Data Engineer

Job Title: Cloud Data Engineer

Location: London, UK

Career Level: Specialist

Accenture is a leading global professional services company providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology, and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets, and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

We have exciting opportunities for a Data Engineer to join our Data & AI practice, part of larger Cloud First Group. We deliver scalable, business-critical, and end-to-end solutions for our clients – from data strategy/governance to Core Engineering, enabling them to transform and work in Cloud Technologies.

You'll learn, grow, and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking, and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

You'll learn, grow, and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking, and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

In our team you will learn:

• Help support the data profiling, ingestion, collation, and storage of data for critical client projects.
• How to develop and enhance your knowledge of agile ways of working and working in an open-source stack (PySpark/PySql).
• Quality engineering professionals utilize Accenture delivery assets to plan and implement quality initiatives to ensure solution quality throughout delivery.

As a Data Engineer, you will:

• Digest data requirements, gather and analyze large-scale structured data, and validate by profiling in a data environment.
• Design and develop ETL patterns/mechanisms to ingest, analyze, validate, normalize, and clean data.
• Implement data quality procedures on data sources and preparation to visualize data and synthesize insights for business value.
• Support data management standards and policy definition, including synthesizing and anonymizing data.
• Develop and maintain data engineering best practices and contribute to data analytics insights and visualization concepts, methods, and techniques.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Palantir
• Python
• PySpark/PySql
• AWS or GCP

Set yourself apart:

• Palantir Certified Data Engineer
• Certified cloud data engineering (preferably AWS)

What’s In It For You:

At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 25 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance, and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role, as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable the delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

Key skills/competency:

• Cloud Data Engineer
• Data Engineering
• ETL
• Data Analysis
• Data Quality
• Data Management
• Python
• PySpark
• AWS
• GCP