Forward Deployed Data Engineer Northampton, England
Job description
We are currently looking for Forward Deployed Data Engineer to join our Rolling Stock business in London.
The Forward Deployed Data Engineer (FDDE) is a pivotal senior technical expert leadership role with a speciality in either:
- Creating customer value from insights from sensor, maintenance management, and operational data by developing advanced analytical applications (Data Science focus)
- Ensuring that data is delivered from source to application in the right way for the relevant type of engagement (Data Engineering and Platform focus)
In this key role, you will work closely with internal or external customers to develop proof of concept prototype data analytics solutions. Additional responsibilities will include:
- Collaborate with domain experts to integrate domain knowledge into the solution approach and develop prototype solutions into production-ready applications by collaborating with data engineers,
- Continuously improve existing solutions based on customer requirements,
- Contribute to the day-to-day operational management of the application portfolio,
- Take responsibility for data-science projects from requirements analysis to exploratory analysis and prototyping to productive release.
With a Data Engineering focus, you will build data-pipelines and cloud platform components that connect between platform technology best practices and the customer facing solution. You will translate Technical Product Requirements to Technical Solution Architecture for implementation and Production deployment using in-depth knowledge of both the train data source and technical software/platform development.
The profile of the FDDE combines very strong coding skills, wide-ranging experience in data science in the IoT domain, and an understanding of cloud-based infrastructure. Strong mediation skills are essential to connect between rapidly moving prototype engagements and long-term, sustainable solutions. An ability to set and communicate standards for handover points between business initiatives and technical requirements is highly desirable.
The candidate
Someone with/who:
Essential:
- Degree-level knowledge in an analytics discipline: Mathematical/Statistical/Physical Sciences or Computer Science
- Advanced SQL programming experience
- Practical experience developing in Python
- Experience developing or supporting advanced Data Science or Machine Learning projects
- Experience developing on/with cloud platform services; AWS preferred
- Self-motivated, methodical with good attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple user requirements on complex systems
- Solid stakeholder and user management skills
- Excellent communicator, both written and oral
Preferred:
- Experience with data pipeline and workflow orchestration tools
- Experience with software development processes; including testing, CI/CD, version control (Git flow), and code reviews
- Portfolio of contributions to open-source projects or data science competitions
- Experience of open-source visualization packages and standard BI tools/software (PowerBI, Spotfire, Superset)
About us
We’re Siemens. A collection of over 377,000 great minds who are all making the future and you could be one of them. We have offices across the UK, full of talented individual’s helping us to challenge the today and work towards a brighter tomorrow.
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We’re excited to hear that you would like to join us here at Siemens! Our people love it here and we want you to be a part of helping us make real, what matters.
We are looking forward to receiving your online application. Please ensure you complete all areas of the application form to the best of your ability to help us review your suitability for the role. We will be in contact as soon as possible with an update on your application.
What else do you need to know?
Our compensation package includes a competitive salary, holiday allowance and pension. We celebrate the fact that our employees are individuals and have different wants and needs. With this in mind, we have a flexible benefits scheme where you can tailor your benefits package to suit you.
If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new! That’s why we recruit great minds from all walks of life. We recognise that building a diverse workforce is essential to the success of our business, therefore we encourage applications from a diverse talent pool. We are proud to announce that we have partnered with VERCIDA, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site where all our vacancies are in an accessible format. We welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements with our applicants to encourage agile working and innovation.
At Siemens we are always challenging ourselves to build a better future. We need the most innovative and diverse Digital Minds to develop tomorrow’s reality. Find out more about the Digital world of Siemens here: www.siemens.com/careers/digitalminds
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Organization: Siemens Mobility
Company: Siemens Mobility Limited
Experience Level: not defined
Full / Part time: Full-time
