Principal Data Engineer

Does this sound like you?

The principal role is an additional part-time responsibility next to your regular work as a consultant. As a Principal Data Engineer, you will work closely with the other Principal Consultants to lead the Data Engineer cell and be a people manager engaged with promoting the happiness, growth, and development of our data engineer colleagues.

How you will help to create value with Data & AI

At Xebia we build strong Data & AI practices to deliver value to our clients and their customers. In the past, our team of data professionals has predicted the daily demand for millions of loaves of bread, built advanced energy-saving algorithms on a nationwide scale and set up data innovation labs at large multinational corporations. We enjoy great success in making top companies AI-driven — just think of what more we can achieve when YOU join our team!

As a Principal Data Engineer Consultant, you are responsible for implementing the foundations of data-intensive systems. You develop enabling infrastructure to store, transform, and process data at scale and in the cloud. You ensure that data is stored safely and securely using the technology you see fit for the job. As well as coaching fellow data engineers, organizing events (like Meetups), and promoting the DE cell – inside and outside of Xebia Data.

What you will do to make data-intensive applications work effectively and securely?

With your knowledge of software engineering, cloud, clusters, queues, containers, streaming, or graphs, you work on the backbone of the data infrastructure. There is lots of data to store, many jobs to run and schedule, and many configurations to deal with. You work with the client in teams that are a mix of people from Xebia Data and the client and pick up the work that is related to the backbone on which the team is building.

When you’re working on-site with a client, you may come across something that is really difficult to solve. We’ve got your back as we at Xebia Data work as a team and will help you solve your problems because everybody at Xebia Data is just a quick message away and ready to help at any time.

The Data Engineer role is a senior position with a central role in our clients’ teams, and therefore we require at least 2 years of relevant professional experience. Having said that, we like to be amazed, so if you have done something outstanding during your studies, like contributing to open source projects or starting your own company, we encourage you to apply no matter what the level of your experience is.

This is your dream job if…