Data Engineer with GCP

Your profile:

• Spearhead design and development of modern data processing applications
  or Big Data-based solutions on public, private and hybrid clouds
• Stakeholder relationship management
• Understand complex data and aggregation requirements and translate them into functionalities
• Interface with SMEs, business analysts and other IT teams to understand the requirements and translate them into technical deliverables
• Have to be critical thinkers who can connect the dots, and work either collaboratively or independently, whilst also being able to handle and resolve conflicts 

Your responsibilities:

• Provide deep technical skills for modern data migrations to the cloud and cloud native implementations
• Be a “go-to” expert for data technologies and solutions
• Perform hands on design and implementation of complex hybrid and cloud solutions in high availability, high scale environments
• Ability to provide on the ground troubleshooting and diagnosis to architecture and design challenges
• Develop Prototypes and Proofs of Concept to support, test and validate design and delivery assumptions
• Be an advocate for Data technologies within GFT and further enhance the data engineering capability in the UK and influence the development of GFT’s global Cloud delivery capability
• Communicate complex solutions in business terms to internal GFT and Client Stakeholders
• Mentor and coach less experienced Engineers to develop and grow GFTs talent pool, share best practice and establish common patterns and standards
• Provide industry thought leadership writing blogs posts and white papers, and being active on social media

Your skills:

Knowledge of some or all of the following topics for the services listed below: use cases / ELT patterns, benefits / limitations, optimization, security, cost management, internal architecture, HA, orchestration, CI/CD and API specific functions (e.g. for Airflow & Apache Beam):

• BigQuery
• Dataproc for Spark
• Dataflow for Apache Beam
• Composer/Airflow

Nice to have:

• CloudSQL for Postgres
• GCP operations suite for logging and monitoring
• GCS – Usage in conjunction with other services
• Low code ETL: Data Fusion & Data Prep
• Using GKE for industry wide products e.g. MongoDB & Kafka

We offer you:

• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
• Competitive salary and extra benefit package that can be tailored to your personal needs (private medical coverage, sport & recreation package, lunch subsidy, life insurance, etc.)
• Permanent or B2B contract
• On-line training and certifications fit for career path
• Free on-line foreign languages lessons
• Regular social events
• Access to e-learning platform
• Ergonomic and functional working space with 2 monitors (you can also borrow monitors for your home office)