Cloud Consultant - Data Engineering

Qualyfi is a unique talent development company that finds and develops great people to become specialist Microsoft consultants.

The Qualyfi Programme is designed to accelerate your career through a combination of extensive technical and commercial training; a two-year placement with a Microsoft cloud partner; and ongoing mentoring and coaching.

Our purpose is to build the future of the Microsoft partner ecosystem by enabling anyone to reach their true potential. But it's much more than that. We started Qualyfi because we are passionate about making a difference to people's careers, the industry and to our society.

There are no barriers to application and we select candidates only based upon their potential.

Why choose us?

At Qualyfi, we recognise that decisions about your career can be difficult and stressful.

As we get to know each other during the selection process, we aim to remove this worry and provide confidence that Qualyfi is the best choice for your development with a genuinely unique opportunity:

• The Qualyfi Programme: from selection to graduation, the entire journey through the programme is carefully designed to ensure that you maximise the benefits and have a lot of fun along the way.
• Consulting Experience: having built an award-winning Microsoft consulting partner, our programme is based on a deep understanding of what it takes to be successful.
• Microsoft Expertise: our relationships with Microsoft have been forged over 20 years and provide you with rapid learning and access to experts.
• Our Approach: with firm belief in our values, we genuinely want the best for you and your development. We will be your coach to success.

Our Values

• Excellence: We are determined to delight our team and our clients by exceeding their expectations through innovation, continuous improvement and by focusing on their needs.
• Agility: We exist to evolve and we focus on the activities that will deliver most value; this benefit realisation is accelerated through our open-minded and flexible approach.
• Candour: Authenticity and openness are integral to all relationships, and we discuss ideas transparently.
• Human: Everyone is equal and we behave accordingly. We act with respect and decency, building trust by doing the right thing.

MICROSOFT CLOUD CONSULTANT

Qualyfi's fast-paced elite Microsoft skills programme offers a unique opportunity to:

• Accelerate your career: rapidly become a highly skilled consultant aligned to the most successful public cloud hyper-scaler.
• Learn through extensive training: develop both technical skills and commercial expertise through our comprehensive expert-led curriculum.
• Gain priceless consulting experience: build knowledge at pace during your placement with a Microsoft partner working on innovative projects.
• Fast-track your personal development: be guided and coached by mentors who prioritise your wellbeing, work-life balance and ongoing development.
• Be part of an elite collective (forever): our Q-Community is an elite group who support each other and strive to do good in the world.
• Maximise earnings: starting salary of £23,800 during training which increases to £30,000 upon placement.

QUALYFI PROGRAMME

• Prior to commencement, you select your Learning Track from Business Applications, Data Engineering or Azure and DevOps.
• Your journey begins with the Qualyfi Accelerator, an initial eight-week training period, after which you embark on a two-year placement with a Microsoft consultancy whilst completing the curriculum.
• Upon programme completion, the sky is the limit as you either transfer as an employee of your placement company or take another assignment.
• Wherever you go, you will remain in the Q-Community, our global networked alumni that will offer mentorship, advice and solid prospects for your future.

Services to connect, extract, load and transform datasets into an enterprise data warehousing and big data analytics solution, including using Power BI to analyse the data.

The Data track shares some common paths with the Azure DevOps track but moves quickly into a much deeper syllabus on data structures, analysis techniques and presentation of results. The extended syllabus for Artificial Intelligence requires some experience in Mathematics (typically A-level and above) and familiarity with Python, Spark, R or similar languages.

Microsoft certifications to include DP-900, DP-203 and AI-102.

CURRICULUM COMPONENTS

Each Learning Track comprises a rich and comprehensive syllabus comprising three main elements to accelerate your development whilst providing you with ongoing coaching and guidance:

• Technical Training, inclusive of the Microsoft certifications cited in the Learning Tracks above.
• Professional Skills.
• Mentorship: Each candidate will have aligned mentors to assist with ongoing development.

Professional Skills

The Professional Skills curriculum includes:

• Consulting: QC-100: Our Guiding Principles of Consulting, QC-140: Building Trust & Navigating Relationships, QC-150: Crucial Communications, QC-160: Leading & Facilitating Meetings / Workshops.
• Business Acumen: QB-200: An Introduction to Microsoft, QB-210: Business Fundamentals, QB-220: Overview of Industries, QB-230: Sales Fundamentals.
• Decisions: QD-310: Ethical Decisions & Behaviours, QD-320: Confronting your own Bias.
• Projects and Frameworks: QF-400: ALM & SDLC Fundamentals, QF-410: Working on Projects, QF-440: Quality Assurance, QF-450: ITIL Fundamentals, QF-480: Introduction to Scrum, QF-485: Scaled Agile Fundamentals.

TIMELINES

We hire on a rolling basis, taking candidates through the Qualyfi Accelerator every quarter. You can apply at any time.

LOCATION

The role is currently only open for people resident in the UK.

The Qualyfi Accelerator is delivered through a combination of in-person training in London and virtual learning. The location of your placement with a Microsoft consulting organisation will vary depending upon their location, although most customer work will be delivered remotely.

QUALIFICATIONS

You do not need any qualifications to apply.

SALARY

Training allowance while on the 2-month Accelerator (£1,983 per month).

Starting salary upon placement with customer is £30,000.

NOTE

Qualyfi's customers often require consultants to be Security Cleared (SC Clearance). To achieve this level of clearance you need to have been a UK resident for at least 5 years and meet other relevant criteria.