Data Consultant

Who are we?

At Ensono, our purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and enabling our clients to Do Great Things. As a trusted technology adviser and managed services provider, we help clients navigate continuous change and embrace innovation.

We deliver world-class hybrid cloud, Infrastructure, mainframe transformation, data, IDAM, and cloud-native solutions, simplifying complex business challenges and creating new pathways to success. Headquartered in the USA, backed by private equity, with consistent growth year on year, Ensono has a strong track record in the UK and Europe, with more growth planned!

About the role and what you'll be doing:
This will be a hands-on technical role as one of our Data Engineering Consultants. You will be joining a cross-functional team of highly skilled and like-minded individuals, helping build one of our client’s big data solutions and assisting that client in realising the business benefit of an investment in the cloud.
You will be responsible for building data lakes and massive scale ingestion pipeline solutions, including batch/grid, micro batching, stream processing and lambda solutions. Ultimately, you will create data solutions which encompass high utilisation, elastic scaling and efficient data distribution for our clients.
Ensono Digital has a diverse set of communities, as well as your core competency, that you’ll be encouraged to contribute to and learn from where projects and client commitments allow. You will be a self-starter, proactive in your project work and your career, including identifying your training needs and planning to fill them with the help of your training budget.

What you’ll bring to Ensono Digital:
We are looking for passionate Data Engineers who have a proactive attitude and can interact effectively within a team. You will also need the following skills and experience:

• Building and contributing to Big Data solutions, such as data lakes, data warehouses, start schemas and data ingestion pipelines

• Working across data storage, including RDMS, cloud storage, HDFS and NoSQL

• Practicing TDD/BDD testing

• Understanding compression and encoding techniques and common Big Data file formats (e.g., Parquet and Avro) and of storage requirements i.e., columnar storage, indexing, partitioning, replication and sharding

• Advanced development skills in at least one core programming language, such as Python, Scala or Java

• Working with distributed query and data processing platforms, such as Apache Spark and Pyspark and Google Big Query

• Understanding of engineering best practices, such as SOLID, TDD, DRY, Separation of Concerns and Clean Code

• Great communication skills, in particular: presenting, collaborating and working with stakeholders

• Understanding business and client requirements and an ability to articulate solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

What we can offer you

We will give you a place to strive and grow, where you will have the opportunity to work on interesting, yet challenging projects. Applying your thinking to build a better world founded on intelligent technologies.

We are a people-first business, which means people are at the heart of everything we do here. We offer our associates a safe environment where learning, knowledge sharing, and open communication is encouraged. Whether at one of the internal events, such as socials, competency meet-ups, hackathons or as part of one or more of our global Community Groups, such as Beautiful Brains (for the neurodiverse and curious), HERO (helping to education regarding orientation), E-Vets (Ensono veteran community) and many more we have strived to build a business where everyone feels welcomed, included, and valued.

Our benefits include

• Highly competitive salary

• Prestigious sales and broader team recognition with Annual Presidents Club

• Company equity incentive plan

• 27 days annual leave + plus bank holidays (increasing to 30 with length of service)

• ½ day leave for your birthday

• Sabbatical options at 5-years & 10-years’ service

• 5 days study leave

• 1 day charity leave to work for a charity of your choice

• Competitive pension

• Private healthcare for you and your family

• Enhanced parental leaves

• Life and income protection

• Payroll giving to your favourite charity

• Coaching & mentoring opportunities

• Additional perks such as discounted gym memberships, cycle scheme, EAP and more!

If this all sounds great, we’d love to hear from you!