PARTNER CONSULTANT - Talend
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Salary
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£54,900
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2133 (79% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £54,900, and Happiest Minds Technologies is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 2431 (Management consultants and business analysts). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers Most likely code | £38,400 | £43,900 | £49,400 | £54,900 |
2431 Management consultants and business analysts Also possible | £35,100 | £40,200 | £45,200 | £50,200 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Position
Functional Consultant ? Talend to Databricks Migration
Location
Onsite / Client Location
Domain
Retail / Grocery
Experience
8+ years of experience in Data/ETL Functional Consulting, Business Analysis, Data Migration, or Data Modernization, with strong experience in Talend-based data environments
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Functional Consultant to support a large-scale Talend-to-Databricks migration program for a leading Retail/Grocery client.
The Functional Consultant will act as the bridge between business stakeholders, data architects, Talend SMEs, Databricks engineering teams, QA teams, and offshore delivery teams.
The role will focus on understanding existing Talend data processes, documenting business rules and data flows, gathering requirements, supporting migration assessment, defining functional mappings, validating migrated data, and ensuring that the Databricks solution meets business requirements.
The ideal candidate should have strong experience working with enterprise data/ETL programs, preferably with Talend, and a good understanding of Retail/Grocery business processes and data domains.
Key Responsibilities
Business & Functional Analysis
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand business processes, data requirements, and reporting needs.
- Analyze existing data processes and understand how Talend supports critical business functions.
- Document functional requirements, business rules, data definitions, and process flows.
- Identify current-state pain points, data-quality issues, manual processes, and business dependencies.
- Analyze existing Talend jobs, workflows, mappings, schedules, dependencies, and interfaces from a functional perspective.
- Understand the business purpose and downstream consumers of Talend jobs.
- Identify critical Talend processes that need to be migrated to Databricks.
- Classify migration workloads based on business criticality, complexity, dependencies, frequency, and data volume.
- Identify jobs that can be retired, consolidated, redesigned, or migrated as-is.
- Document functional dependencies between Talend jobs and upstream/downstream applications.
- Support creation and prioritization of migration waves.
- Review existing Talend transformation logic and translate it into understandable business/functional rules.
- Prepare source-to-target mapping documents.
- Define field-level mappings, transformation rules, default values, derivations, filters, joins, aggregations, and business validations.
- Identify data elements requiring special treatment during migration.
- Validate that existing Talend business logic is correctly understood before implementation in Databricks.
- Work with Databricks developers to clarify functional requirements and transformation logic.
- Define functional validation criteria for migrated data.
- Develop and execute data reconciliation scenarios between Talend/legacy and Databricks.
- Validate record counts, key business metrics, aggregations, data completeness, and transformation results.
- Investigate data mismatches and coordinate with technical teams for resolution.
Strong understanding of Retail/Grocery business processes is preferred.
The consultant should be comfortable working with data related to:
- Product / Item
- Product Hierarchy
- Store / Location
- Customer / Loyalty
- Sales / POS Transactions
- Pricing
- Promotions
- Inventory
- Orders
- Suppliers / Vendors
- Supply Chain
- Merchandising
- Forecasting
- E-commerce / Digital Sales
Talend, Databricks
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Where this offer sits in the market
IT business analysts, architects and systems designers (SOC 2133) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~187k in sample- Middle half £45,136–79,976
- Median £60,216
- Going rate £54,900
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £38,400–49,400
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2133 going rate of £54,900. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.