Principal Data Engineer

Date Posted:

2024-03-18

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

CAS - Rockwell Collins UK Limited, 730 Wharfedale Road, Winnersh, Wokingham, Berkshire, England, RG41 5TP

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

Do you want to work with a team that are working on making complex weather data easily consumable by our products throughout Collins that drives efficiencies for some of the world’s best airlines?

Stack: Redshift, AWS CloudFormation, Bash, Docker, Linux.

At Collins, we are building and supporting large scale systems in the cloud using a wide span of cutting-edge technologies to deliver scalable systems for our clients. You will play a key role in a high velocity team that manage their own sprints. You will have a passion to work on complex data making it consumable for engineers and products across the business. If you believe in collaborating as a team working on cutting edge tech, then you will fit in well at Collins.

We are broadly based across the world and believe in flexibility, however if you want the full office experience our Winnersh site provides a highly polished environment to work in – as well as colleagues to enjoy the day with. We do encourage getting together as a team and will expect some visits to the office even for mostly remote members.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer preferably with a weather background to join a squad within Connected Aviation Solutions. You will work with engineers to deliver complex new data models and resolve bugs in our exciting platforms in a fully agile environment supporting commercial airlines across the world. You will take weather data from a variety of sources, design the right data model to make consumption by other products throughout Collins easy and deliver the data to them through an API.

Teamwork is a must - you should be willing to collaboratively code with your colleagues across the world to deliver great systems rather than just a great individual engineer.

As a Principal Engineer you will help and mentor other more junior members around the team, helping them reach the next step in their career at Collins as your colleagues help you to have the opportunity to progress.

Day to Day:

• Work with complex weather data from highly disparate sources in varied formats.

• Design the right layout for data in our warehouse based on customer needs.

• Design, code and successfully automate the ingest of the weather data with the right amount of monitoring.

• Form the structure of an API to provide the data to end customers.

• Carry out design and code reviews for other engineers on the team.

• Mentoring other more junior engineers.

• Stand-ups

• Backlog refinements, sprint reviews, sprint planning as a member of the team

Essential Skills / Experience:

• Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or relevant training coupled with experience.

• Team working

• Communication – Can document and articulate what you have built clearly and concisely to team members and stakeholders.

• Data warehouse design and management

• AWS redshift (or other similar data warehouse technology)

• Docker

• AWS CloudFormation

• Linux + Bash

Desirable Skills / Experience:

• OAuth

• Python

• C#

Collins Aerospace Diversity & Inclusion Statement:

Diversity drives innovation; inclusion drives success. We believe a multitude of approaches and ideas enable us to deliver the best results for our workforce, workplace, and customers. We are committed to fostering a culture where all employees can share their passions and ideas so we can tackle the toughest challenges in our industry and pave new paths to limitless possibility.

What we can offer you:

• Competitive Salary

• Private Medical Insurance

• Health & Wellbeing Cash Plan

• Fantastic Pension Scheme which operates as a 2:1 match up to 10%

• Life Assurance • 25 days vacation plus bank holidays plus the ability to buy/sell 5 days per year

• Flexible working

• Employee selectable top up benefits

• And so much more!

About us:

Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market.

Our Connected Aviation Solutions team provides advanced information management systems, products and services that enable the connected ecosystem by bringing together Collins’ unique breadth of aviation products with our smart digital solutions to help us enhance every aspect of the end-to-end travel experience. We help airlines, airports and business aircraft turn data into value to streamline operations, increase efficiency and reduce cost, enhance the passenger experience and contribute to sustainable flight. By combining the best networks, connectivity and data/analytics solutions, we’re solving big problems for our customers and the world, while enhancing the security and connectivity of systems both on and off the aircraft, to help operators and passengers stay more connected and informed and create a more sustainable, efficient, reliable and enjoyable travel experience.

Aviation connects the world. Our Connected Aviation Solutions team connects aviation. Sustainably. Seamlessly. Securely.

Apply now and be part of the team that's redefining aerospace, every day.

Collins Aerospace, in accordance with our 'Baseline Security' requirements, will request from candidates evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK, and employment and/or education history for up to three years, in relation to certain roles within the business. These relate to positions where access to export controlled items, (e.g., Technical data, hardware, software, and services subject to international trade control laws and regulations) and Collins IT Systems may apply. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

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