Data Engineering Manager

Data Engineering Manager

Location: Glasgow, UK

Salary: Competitive Salary + Package (dependent on experience)

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We have exciting opportunities for a Data Engineering Senior Manager to join our Data & AI practice, part of the larger Cloud First Group. We deliver scalable, business critical and end-to-end solutions for our client - from data strategy/governance to Core Engineering, enabling them to transform and work in Cloud Technologies.

If you're looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

In our team you will learn:

• Help support the data profiling, ingestion, collation and storage of data for critical client projects.
• How to develop and enhance your knowledge of agile ways of working and working in open source stack (PySpark/PySql).
• Quality engineering professionals utilize Accenture delivery assets to plan and implement quality initiatives to ensure solution quality throughout delivery.

As a Data Engineering Manager, you will:

• Digest data requirements, gather and analyze large scale structured data and validate by profiling in a data environment
• Understand data structures and data model (dimensional & relational) concepts like Star schema or Fact & Dimension tables, to design and develop ETL patterns/mechanisms to ingest, analyze, validate, normalize and cleanse data
• Understand and produce 'Source to Target mapping' (STTM) documents, containing data structures, business & data transformation logics
• Liaise with data/business SME to understand/confirm data requirements and obtain signoffs
• Implement data quality procedures on data sources and preparation to visualize data and synthesize insights to drive business value
• Support data management standards and policy definition including synthesizing and anonymizing data
• Develop and maintain data engineering best practices and contribute to data analytics insights and visualization concepts, methods and techniques
• Perform unit/system testing to debug code/data/business logic issues during development phase
• Communicate with Project lead and other team members to provide regular progress updates and raise any risk/concerns/issues

Core skills we're working with include:

• Palantir
• Python
• PySpark/PySQL
• AWS or GCP

What's in it for you:

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Closing Date for Applications 28/11/25

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

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