Company Overview

Are you passionate about making large companies smarter and analytics driven? The world’s largest and most analytically sophisticated enterprises use Teradata’s industry-leading analytic technology solutions and it’s consulting services to enable them to capture, store, manage, integrate, and analyze detailed data to understand and improve business performance. Providing real answers to the enterprise business problems – and be able deploy at scale and across a complex data eco-system. We call this Pervasive Data Intelligence - on-premises, in the Cloud, or anywhere in between.

Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics companies. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale. Only Teradata gives the flexibility to handle the massive and mixed data workloads of the future, today.

The Teradata Vantage architecture is cloud native, delivered as-a-service, and built on an open ecosystem. These design features make Vantage the ideal platform to optimize price performance in a multi-cloud environment.

Position Overview: 

France Data Engineering Consultants bring a wide variety of technical expertise and experience to our customers. They have demonstrable knowledge of data ecosystems, supporting technologies and services.

The Data Engineer will specialise in the development of data acquisition processes, the design of resilient data pipelines, and the integration of data into data models. This individual must have the skills necessary to understand the overall data warehouse architecture. The Data Engineer designs and builds the ETL environment with the specific toolset required by the client. They participate in making decisions on database design and overall solution architecture. The role demands adaptability and the ability to step-up and take ownership of project deliverables when needed.

The role holder will be passionate about data, the constant evolution of data technologies, and its increasingly pervasive influence in the way our customers operate. They will have experience in data related projects and a grasp of how data is employed in modern organisations.  They will be expected to engage with customer stakeholders and provide guidance in the areas of data management, data modelling, solution design, and cloud architecture. Knowledge in areas such as DataOps, DevOps and Cloud Migration as well as demonstrable experience with one or more public cloud platforms would be an advantage.

This role is client facing and as such significant travel may be required.

Core Capabilities

• A well-rounded individual with consulting experience.
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Experience working in the project environment.
• Good current knowledge of, or an eagerness to gain knowledge of the Teradata technology stack.
• Able to actively support customer meetings and workshops.
• The potential to step up to more senior project roles when required.
• Technical solution analysis and design.
• Up-to-date knowledge of the data domain as well as wider technology trends and developments.
• Able to contribute to the design, development, and delivery of client solutions from definition phase through implementation.
• Works to become a go-to person for both the customer and Teradata team for ideas, advice and guidance.
• Communicate and promote standards continual improvement of best practice.
• Ability to clearly communicate solution design and approach with client technical and business stakeholders.
• Maintains knowledge functional/industry trends and develops project strategies.
• Participates in the development of Data Practice methods and tools.
• Takes a proactive role in identifying new consulting opportunities and communicates them with the project team.
• Challenges self and others to his/her fullest potential.
• Contributes to lessons learned and sharing those lessons with team members.
• Develops productive relationships with customer stakeholders.
• Communicates effectively to identify needs and suggest alternative approaches or technical solutions.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience of the full lifecycle in a variety of software development methodologies.  Agile, DevOps, CI/CD.
• Automation/Application Development/ Scripting (i.e. Java, shell scripting), Jenkins/Others, Git/SVN/Others
• Knowledge and experience with latest tools and technologies in Data and Analytics domain including open-source tools
• Good communicator with both business and technical stakeholders.  Able to adapt communication style to the needs of different audiences.
• Sound understanding of database concepts and different database design techniques.
• Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Awareness of database standards for security, coding, templates, connectivity and source control.
• Knowledge and experience of one or more Database Technology (Teradata/Oracle/SQL Server/Redshift/Big Query/Synapse/Snowflake).
• Public Cloud experience or certifications (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Knowledge and experience of one or more ETL/Integration tool (Ab-initio/DataStage/Informatica etc).
• Knowledge or experience of one of more BI technology (Business Objects/Tableau/MicroStrategy/Qlik etc).
• Broader technical/programming skillset (Python, R, Groovy, VB, C# etc).

Teradata highly values diversity and equal opportunity in all aspects of our business. We are excited by the unique qualities, abilities and perspectives each person brings, and candidates are considered on all the attributes they may bring to the role and the team.