Principal Data Engineer at Xdesign · United Kingdom
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Spark
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Airflow
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AWS
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dbt
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Consulting background
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You've spent a significant part of your career in a consultancy, professional services, or client-facing delivery environment — you know how
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You're comfortable moving between clients and industries, ramping up on new domains quickly rather than relying on years of embedded context
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You've shaped and sold technical work — writing proposals, scoping engagements, and presenting architecture decisions to client stakeholders
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You understand the difference between "good engineering" and "good engineering for this client, this budget, this timeline" — and can naviga
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Cloud data engineering mastery
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You can model the cost implications of architecture decisions and advise clients on trade-offs between throughput, latency, durability, and
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Why they ask: Core skill.
How to answer: Ingestion, storage, orchestration, idempotency, backfills, monitoring.
Why they ask: Data correctness.
How to answer: Watermarks, dedup keys, reprocessing windows.
Why they ask: AWS is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
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Why they ask: Spark is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
Why they ask: Checks judgement under pressure.
How to answer: Describe a concrete framework and one example of a trade-off you made.
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