Principal Data Consultant

Senior Delivery Consultant @ Fynity, placing highly skilled talent within the cloud technology sector ☁️

Principal Data Engineering Consultant required to join the high-performing, busy Data & Insights practice of a boutique consultancy.

This is a superb opportunity to lead and apply your data engineering skills across a variety of client projects.

As a Principal Data Engineering Consultant, you will utilise your functional and hands‑on technical data engineering skills to implement end‑to‑end reporting, analytics and data solutions for a variety of different customers, from large enterprises to small start‑ups.

You will lead exciting and complex projects that vary in size and complexity, and you will take ownership of deliveries; gathering requirements, understanding business problems, designing and building solutions, data modelling, reporting and analysis through to go‑live and training.

• Leading projects and solution delivery
• Engaging with customer stakeholders and building strong relationships
• Building and implementing technical data solutions using a variety of data tools and platforms
• Consulting with clients on the best approach and most suitable data technologies
• Technical project leadership, requirements gathering, delivery, and documentation
• Using hands‑on technical skills to write code and build solutions
• Managing and mentoring junior consultants on deliveries

You will be a Technical Data Consultant or Senior/Principal Data Engineer who has a track record of leading the design and delivery of data projects.

You will bring a strong blend of technical and functional experience and will have ideally previously operated within a client‑facing consulting environment.

You will need to possess a hands‑on technical skillset spanning data engineering, data integration and data migration and be able to adapt to different tools and technologies.

• MS Fabric stack
• Databricks
• Snowflake
• SQL

Other technologies such as Azure Data Factory, Redshift, Informatica, Qlik, or similar are also useful. Experience in Oracle OBIEE and/or Oracle Analytics Cloud is desirable but not essential.

Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage and manage client stakeholders is also essential.

A competitive salary of £70,000‑£80,000, an annual bonus of £5k‑£7k (paid quarterly), private medical insurance, pension (up to 5% matched) and other perks such as a mobile phone allowance.

This hybrid role offers flexibility to work remotely, with visits to the office in Surrey required roughly once a week (or less, depending on client needs). You may also be required to visit client sites if requested.

Direct message the job poster from Fynity to discuss details and next steps.