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Client Technology Portfolio Director

Enterprise Services in Commercial

If you like providing efficient, effective solutions to complex challenges, join us at Ascent! Be at the heart of helping achieve extraordinary things with software and data for our customers!

About us

We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.

We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.

We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and employ the sharpest minds too!

The Opportunity

The Client Technology Portfolio Director will be directly underpinning the 2023 focus on enterprise customer development. Build trust and rapport with senior stakeholders in named accounts, understand and influence their strategies, provide multi-party tech advice, solve challenges, and drive Ascent's product roadmap while producing case studies and event successes.

You will

Be the overall account technical services portfolio owner for 2 or 3 of our most valuable enterprise clients
Shape the new role with the Ascent Head of Enterprise Services, CCO & CTO in way that works best for Ascent, our customers and your talents
Use your knowledge of Azure, dev ops , data or analytics to build solutions for our accounts
Build trusted and value-based relationships with senior customer stakeholders
Own end-to-end service/solution value propositions (supported by internal and customer teams)
Manage account cadence and steering
Forecast and own account roadmap, revenue and capacity plan
Drive Ascent product, portfolio and recruitment roadmaps/owners as a key internal customer
Ensure enterprise account sustainability and growth, without single points or services of failure
Lead, evangelise and promote your accounts internally and externally where appropriate
Lead a team of technology SMEs, commercial/legal support and on occasion our Ascent’s executive to provide account value

You have

Successfully owned and sold a broad range of med-high value tech services/solutions to large/enterprise customers.

Knowledge of building solutions with Azure, dev ops , data or analytics
A strong customer value focus
Proven team, opportunity and solution management experience
An ability to build confidence with integrity
Extensive experience as a sales or delivery SME across a wide range of modern technologies
A strong motivation to learn, grow Ascent based on results and define your career here in the process.

Working at Ascent

Life assurance
Wellness benefits
Pension contribution
Competitive Salary

Our offices are places to connect and collaborate with colleagues, with socials and regular get-togethers. We take your development and growth seriously, with plenty of opportunities to acquire skills and get certified.

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.

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Senior Data Engineer

Data Engineering

Join Ascent and help us do extraordinary things with data for our customers!

About the role

As a Senior Data Engineer at Ascent, you get to work at the heart of our customer businesses to understand their data needs, identify possible problems and help them develop solutions. You’ll join our practice of market-leading data professionals and work typically as part of a cross-functional team on customer projects, supporting their journey through digital transformation, or helping them do existing things in a much better way.

What you'll do

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll work to design and create pipelines that transform data in a scalable and repeatable way. Producing efficient code that automates the process of ingesting and cleaning the data, you then develop and apply appropriate mechanisms so that data flows toward target data sources as required.
Depending on the project, your daily responsibilities could be quite varied, but typically our Data Engineers:

Understand, build and develop ETL and data integration solutions using a wide array of technologies and data sources
Work with data and big data components and migration strategies
Work with cloud-based infrastructure (Google, AWS, and Azure) for hosting data solutions and applications.

You’ll also get called on from time to time to support Ascent marketing colleagues, pre-sales teams and key partners with some subject matter expertise in data engineering.

Skills and experience required

We’re looking for people with good data engineering skills, and you’ll ideally bring with you:

Proven role experience in developing ETL and data integration solutions
Good knowledge of the Azure data engineering stack - Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, Azure Blob, Cosmos DB
Capability in using Databricks, Snowflake and/or Spark
Good experience in a general programming – ideally Python

You’ll have experience working with data warehouse solutions, extracting and processing data in various ways using off-the-shelf tools and open-source tools. You’ll also be really familiar working with Linux or Windows operating systems and version control systems (Git).

We work in Agile methodologies as a preference, so being comfortable working in this way is important. You should be comfortable in a customer facing situation where you’ll need to communicate clearly and effectively in English – often with people who might not be as technically experienced, so good written and verbal English skills are important. You should be someone who is passionate about team collaboration and knowledge sharing, with the passion and drive to achieve goals and targets. We value empathy in our colleagues, and it’s important you bring a growth mindset and a willingness to learn and adapt.

Working at Ascent

We choose hybrid working, where you balance time at the office or with your customers with working at home. You'll earn a competitive salary, with a good range of benefits. Our offices are places to connect and collaborate with colleagues, with socials and regular get-togethers. We take your development and growth seriously, with plenty of opportunities to acquire skills and get certified.

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favorably because of their gender, pregnancy, maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. Please let us know when you apply if you require any reasonable accommodation.

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