Lead Data Engineer - Cloud Infra, Data Mesh & Governance

Places for People

Worcester

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Places for People in Worcester is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead technical direction for data platforms on Google Cloud. You will design robust, compliant data pipelines, drive Data Mesh initiatives, and mentor engineers while ensuring cost-effective, scalable processing for the organisation.

You will collaborate with data domain architects and platform teams, optimise queries, enforce data quality, and promote best practices across engineering and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

Strong understanding of Google Cloud Platform and data engineering best practices.
Experience designing robust, compliant data platforms with ingestion, quality, transformation, security, and cost control.
Ability to lead and mentor data engineers and set coding standards.
Experience building Data Mesh and data modelling.
Ability to communicate with engineers and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across data domains.
Architect and design data platforms.
Mentor and build capability within the team.
Drive cross-domain interoperability.
Governance and compliance enablement.
Innovate and influence strategy.

Skills

GCP expertise

Data mesh

Data modelling

Data quality

Security & encryption

Monitoring & alerting

Cost control

Leadership

Mentorship

Automation

Query optimisation

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

Dataproc

Cloud IAM

Cloud Functions

Job description

You will collaborate with data domain architects and platform teams, optimise queries, enforce data quality, and promote best practices across engineering and business stakeholders.

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