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Do you want to be at the heart of some of the biggest and most ambitious AI & Data projects?
Technology & Transformation: How do you make intelligent, future-proof decisions in a world where change is the one constant? That's exactly what you'll help our clients to do. You'll build trusted relationships with business stakeholders - and use the most exciting new technologies available - to create data-driven programmes that transform their organisations.
Your architectural vision and engineering leadership will help clients position their organisations to succeed in an ever-evolving marketplace.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Your opportunity
Take your career to the next level by joining one of the world's best and most recognized professional services firms. Within Deloitte's AI&D operating unit, we imagine, deliver and run innovative solutions to help our clients solve complex challenges and maximize the value of their data. At Deloitte, you will be able to build your career, access the best training and learning opportunities, and develop new skills and hone existing ones. We work for a huge variety of interesting, international, and world-leading clients on exciting next generation technology-enabled projects. We are looking for candidates with Data Engineering and Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc) based expertise to join us, working in fast-paced teams with other highly talented, fun and motivated colleagues.
We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.
Your role
As a Data Engineering Architect in AI&D, you are responsible for designing and delivering robust, scalable, and secure Data Engineering architectures, frameworks and pipelines on Cloud projects. You are encouraged to devise innovative architectural solutions to help our clients address their biggest data challenges, including developing modern analytics platforms.
In your role, you will have responsibility for architectural integrity, technical strategy, and client stakeholder engagement, delivering solutions for our clients using agile methodologies. You will often be working in multi-disciplinary teams across a range of industries, subject matters and locations.
Our projects vary greatly and your responsibility as a Manager will differ based on the focus of the client engagement and your skillset, but could include and may require you to
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Lead architectural assessments of existing data platforms, define target state architectures, and develop strategic roadmaps leveraging Cloud IaaS and PaaS components.
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Define and evolve the architectural blueprint for robust data engineering pipelines, guiding their implementation to ensure scalability, performance, and strategic alignment.
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Work effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.
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Define and guide the technical roadmap for data platforms, ensuring architectural alignment and robust delivery through advanced DevOps practices.
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Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and architectural guidance to diverse engineering teams (onshore and offshore), fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
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Evaluate and champion the adoption of emerging open-source and proprietary data technologies, assessing their architectural fit, strategic value, and potential impact.
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Drive the architectural vision for our market-leading analytics and cognitive offerings, contribute to technical solutioning in proposals, and significantly shape the growth of our Strategy, Governance & Architecture community.
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Provide architectural oversight, technical and engineering governance for key client project workstreams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and commercially viable solutions.
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Contribute to client project delivery by owning one or more workstream(s) and ensuring commercially successful conclusion of the client engagements
Your professional experience
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Must have Python, Scala, C++ or Java development experience deploying workload to production
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Must have either one of the following:
o Cloud Developer Associate, or
o Cloud Data Engineer Associate, or
o Similar certification, with a strong preference for Architect-level certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect).
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Ability to demonstrate advanced stakeholder management skills and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams, including presenting complex architectural concepts to non-technical audiences.
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Ability to provide technical leadership, coaching, and mentorship to engineering teams, driving architectural best practices and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
Candidates must have extensive experience in Cloud-based Data Platforms, demonstrating deep architectural understanding and hands-on delivery across some or all of the following areas:
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Provide subject matter expertise and hands-on delivery of data capture, curation, and consumption pipelines on cloud platforms using native and Hadoop-based services.
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Ability to conduct comprehensive technical and architectural assessments of existing platforms, define future-state architectures, and articulate the migration strategy.
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Ability to design and build enterprise-grade cloud data solutions, providing expert perspective on storage options (e.g., object storage, data lakes, data warehouses) and compute engine options (e.g., Spark, Databricks, Synapse Analytics, BigQuery).
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Implementing and optimising data lake and data warehouse solutions on cloud platforms using services such as object storage (e.g., S3, ADLS, GCS), cloud data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Synapse Analytics), streaming services (e.g., Kinesis, Event Hubs, Pub/Sub), and security services (e.g., KMS, KeyVault), with a focus on architectural governance.
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Developing logical and physical data models for NoSQL data stores such as CosmosDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, etc.
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Developing and orchestrating highly performant, scalable, and re-usable data ingestion and transformation pipelines across various cloud components and services such as Databricks, AWS Glue, Google Dataflow, Azure Data Factory, or similar.
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Developing event-based and streaming data ingestion and processing using cloud-native PaaS services or Apache Kafka.
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Data ingestion, data engineering, and/or data curation using native cloud services or tools available in cloud marketplaces.
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Developing data governance, data cataloguing, and data lineage solutions using tools such as Informatica Data Catalog, Talend Data Catalog, IBM Information Governance Catalog, or cloud-native equivalents.
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Developing RESTful and GraphQL APIs for inter-service and external data exchange.
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Have worked with and architected solutions on platforms from key cloud vendors such as Databricks, Snowflake, or similar.
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Have worked in agile delivery teams with DevOps ways of working to continuously deliver iterative deployments with experience in using Git, Jira, Confluence, or similar.
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Have had experience in data migration activities in the past, including migration strategy and approach, source and target system discovery, analysis, mapping, development, and reconciliation.
Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation
Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That’s what connects us. That’s what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we’ll make an impact that matters.
Engineering, AI and Data
We lead transformation at the heart of our clients; re-engineering the core of our clients’ organisations, helping to unleash growth, and creating better futures for their customers, citizens and employees.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.
Connect with your colleagues
“The great culture, flexibility, and range of experiences that Deloitte offers is what sets this firm apart. In Technology & Transformation, Deloitte is far ahead of any of our immediate competitors.” - Sophia, Technology & Transformation
“What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte’s clients include many of the world’s largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of.” - Dan, Technology & Transformation
Our hybrid working policy
You’ll be based in Manchester with hybrid working.
At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
