Principal Data Engineer (m/f/d)

Job description

<div><div class="description content"><p>Principal data engineers at Thoughtworks are strategic leaders who spearhead data engineering initiatives, tackle complex business challenges and uncover transformative insights. They possess a deep understanding of a client's business ecosystem and partner with executives to align technology strategies with business objectives. By contextualizing emerging trends and Thoughtworks' exploration, they expand the impact of data engineering within the client organization.</p> <p>They draw upon their profound expertise in developing modern data architectures and infrastructure for the management of data applications. Effective collaboration is paramount, as they adeptly convey their discoveries to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. They stay abreast of industry advancements, ensure data quality and security, and provide mentorship to team members. At Thoughtworks, data engineers leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems, making a significant impact on client success.</p> <p>This is a client-facing, builder's leadership role. You will start with a small, senior team and grow it through technical depth, delivery excellence and thought leadership, rather than inheriting a large organisation to manage. The role is based in Germany and requires regular travel to client sites, up to approximately 50% of your time.</p></div><h2 id='job-responsibilities'>Job responsibilities</h2><div class="job-responsibilities content"><ul> <li aria-level="1">You will collaborate with sales and pre-sales to clarify requirements, design viable solutions and independently drive complex pursuits with technical and executive stakeholders.</li> <li aria-level="1">You will establish a clear vision and direction for the data paradigm and practices, aligning it with the overall business strategy.</li> <li aria-level="1">You will collaborate with executive-level stakeholders to understand their strategic objectives and identify opportunities to leverage data and data quality.</li> <li aria-level="1">You will consult on complex data platform programs, synchronizing cross-cutting architectural concerns and providing client-facing technical leadership as a data subject-matter expert.</li> <li aria-level="1">You will create, design and develop intricate data processing pipelines, addressing clients' most challenging prob…