Senior Principal Data Engineer

at  Collins Aerospace

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.

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#

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.

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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.