Senior GCP Data Engineer - £75k DOE

Job Description

Jefferson Frank are supporting a client on the up! They have recently won 3 major projects with clients in the UK. The client describes this role as one that "you will never be bored in".The role sits in the newly created Data Science & Tools team within this department, reporting to Head of Data Science & Tools. The teams remit is to drive innovation & revenue in two ways: develop & deliver revenue-driving/client-facing data science &engineering solutions and internal tools used within the agency.As a senior member of the team you will be mentoring 2-3 junior members on projects and leading by example by being the main point of contact for architecture, design and engineering.Role responsibilities:

• Ownership of the data engineering projects and solutions delivered by the Data Science and Tools team
• Line management of Data Engineers (2-3 including contractors)
• Champion data and software engineering best practices and helping and mentoring the team to implement and uphold those practices
• Solutionising client deliverables
• Define and maintain DataOps and governance policies, processes, and standards, including automation of tasks
• Hands-on involvement in data integrations, warehousing, and related engineering tasks
• Oversee the deliveries across multiple clients and assuring that the solutions meet the highest quality achievable within the project constraints
• Research and Development on the possible technologies and help the team and clients adopt those where appropriate
• Highlight risks and produce effective mitigation plans to address them
• Be a key owner of the Cloud GCP infrastructure making sure that appropriate governance practices are followed, whilst helping the company with cloud adoption
• Data infrastructure automation
• Contribute to new business and cross-sell proposals, especially with detail about the implementation work in proposed projects, and with estimations of the time and effort needed, which will contribute to the commercial element of a proposal

Essential:

• Excellent Python and SQL and database design skills
• Proficient with cloud-based modern data warehousing technologies
• Fluent with GCP and related technologies, especially BigQuery
• Strong understanding of the best practices, the trends in data and software engineering
• Hands-on experience with setting up and maintaining production data pipelines using serverless technologies and/or Airflow
• Strong dbt/Dataform or similar SQL development frameworks
• Strong understanding and appreciation of unit testing, producing clean/maintainable code
• An ability to communicate clearly and effectively on technical topics with varied types of technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Productionising software applications, experience with Docker
• Experience working with software engineers, agile development, and software development lifecycles
• Infrastructure automation, preferably with Terraform
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines

Whats in it for you

• 25 days holiday a year
• Annual performance bonus
• Sale commission
• Recruitment referrals bonus
• Gym membership contributions
• Ride to Work scheme
• Rail card
• Season Ticket loan
• Free fruit, breakfast cereals and tea & coffee
• Free home office chair and screen
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package
• Life and income protection
• Medical cash plan
• Agile Working Policy

Standard hours are from 9.00am to 5.30pm, theres flexibility if agreed in advance.If youd like to learn more about this opportunity please email Bradley Evans at .