Cloud Data Platform Lead – GCP & Data Mesh

Places for People; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension matched up to 7%

35 days holiday

Cashback for healthcare

2% bonus scheme

Training and development

Discounts from shops and cinemas

Job summary

Places for People is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to steer the design and evolution of our data platform on Google Cloud Platform. You will drive architecture across domains, promote data mesh principles, and mentor a team of data engineers to deliver robust, secure and scalable data products.

You will collaborate with the Data Domain Architect and Platform Engineering to optimize pipelines, enforce governance, and embed best practices, while communicating clearly with technical and

Qualifications

• Extensive cloud data engineering background with distributed systems expertise.
• Deep knowledge of GCP and data mesh principles; ability to design robust data platforms.
• Strong mentoring and coaching skills to uplift data engineers.
• Experience leading data engineering teams and driving CI/CD adoption.
• Familiarity with Agile / Scrum / SDLC processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across product domains and oversee architecture and design.
• Mentor data engineers and promote coding standards and best practices.
• Lead governance, data quality, security, encryption, and cost control on data platform.
• Design and build Data Mesh, including data modelling and semantic layers.
• Collaborate with the Data Domain Architect and Data Platform Engineer to optimize the data pipeline.

Skills

Data Engineering

Lead / Principal Engineer

Cloud data platform

GCP

Data Mesh principles

Mentoring / coaching

CI/CD

Data Lake / Warehouse

SQL

Python

Data Governance

Data quality

Agile / Scrum

Communication

Education

Experience in a Lead / Principal Engineer role

Tools

BigQuery

DataFlow

Data Fusion

Data Stream

Cloud Functions

Data Proc

Airflow / Composer

Job description

Places for People is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to steer the design and evolution of our data platform on Google Cloud Platform. You will drive architecture across domains, promote data mesh principles, and mentor a team of data engineers to deliver robust, secure and scalable data products.

You will collaborate with the Data Domain Architect and Platform Engineering to optimize pipelines, enforce governance, and embed best practices, while communicating clearly with technical and