Data Engineer
About this role
Abacus | Data Engineer
WHO WE ARE
At Abacus, we specialize in technology, outsourcing, and people solutions, bringing nearly 40 years of experience shaped alongside the organizations we support. As a global professional services leader, our focus remains on providing bespoke solutions that enable organizations to create the future of business and embrace change for sustainable growth, powered by a global team of over 5,000 people.
WHAT WE DO
Across digital transformation, emerging technologies, SAP enterprise solutions, outsourcing, and human capital, we support organizations in building environments that operate effectively and scale with the business. Today, this extends to more than 1,500 enterprise clients, where the focus remains on creating systems that are not only functional, but ready to adapt and evolve over time.
POSITION OVERVIEW
Role Summary
Provides technical leadership and engineering direction across software delivery squads within the Software Engineering Centre of Excellence (CoE). Responsible for guiding solution design, engineering quality, architecture alignment, development standards, and technical delivery execution. Works closely with architects, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, developers, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to ensure scalable, secure, and high-quality software solutions are delivered in alignment with business and technology objectives.
Responsibilities
- Lead and guide software engineering teams in the design, development, and delivery of enterprise software solutions
- Provide technical leadership across multiple agile squads and support engineering best practices
- Drive solution design, architecture alignment, and technical decision-making across projects and platforms
- Collaborate with architects, Product Owners, business stakeholders, and engineering teams to define technical requirements and delivery approaches
- Ensure engineering standards, coding practices, security controls, and quality assurance processes are implemented consistently
- Support estimation, sprint planning, technical roadmaps, and delivery execution activities
- Review and approve technical designs, code quality, and implementation approaches
- Identify and resolve technical risks, dependencies, and delivery blockers
- Support DevOps, CI/CD, automation, and cloud engineering practices across delivery teams
- Mentor and coach developers and engineers to improve technical capability and engineering maturity
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives within the Software Engineering CoE
- Support production stability, operational readiness, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis activities where required
- Contribute to reusable engineering assets, frameworks, accelerators, and standards
- Collaborate with Business Operations, Delivery leads, and stakeholders to support governance and reporting requirements
- Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, tools, and engineering practices
Qualification & Experience
- Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field preferred
- At least 4–6 years of experience in software engineering and application development environments
- Strong experience in enterprise application architecture, system integration, APIs, and modern software engineering practices
- Experience with cloud platforms, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile delivery models
- Experience working with distributed systems, microservices, and scalable application design
- Experience across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Relevant technical certifications advantageous
Preferred Skills
- Technical leadership and mentoring
- Solution design and architecture alignment
- Strong software engineering and coding capability
- API, integration, and microservices development
- DevOps and CI/CD practices
- Cloud engineering and platform technologies
- Analytical and problem-solving capability
- Stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Risk and dependency management
- Process improvement and engineering optimisation
- Strong collaboration and team leadership capability
- Ability to work independently and across multiple agile squads
- Good communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
- Good organisational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
WHAT WE OFFER- Competitive compensation package commensurate with experience.
- Exposure to large-scale, enterprise-grade platform and API projects.
- A collaborative, innovation-driven, and growth-oriented work environment.
- Continuous learning opportunities and access to professional development resources.
- Opportunity to work with a globally recognised professional services leader.
Company at a glance
For nearly 40 years, Abacus has been offering cutting-edge business solutions helping organisations to transform their visions into realities through a combination of latest business methodologies and technological tools. The business value offered by Abacus has a deep scale, is industry focused and technology driven with a world class delivery capability. We help to transform the businesses of clients who want to be leaders in their industry.
Abacus is founded on one simple belief, that change is the only constant in our world and that as enterprises and individuals, we must all respond to change with vision, courage and integrity. We are passionate about being partners to our clients, as advisers, consultants, technology specialists, systems integrators and outsourcers. For the people at Abacus, fulfillment is seeing our clients transform into truly great organisations.
Top Benefits
- Competitive compensation package
- Professional development resources
- Continuous learning opportunities
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