Lead Data Engineer: Data Mesh & GCP—Flexible Hours

Places for People; Loose; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension with matched contributions up

35 days annual leave

Cashback for healthcare

2% bonus scheme

Training and development

Employee discounts

Job summary

Places for People is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead data engineering across product domains on Google Cloud Platform, shaping the data mesh and semantic layers. You will mentor engineers, set coding standards, and drive governance, quality checks, and cost control.

You will collaborate with the Data Platform Architect and domain teams to optimise the data platform while communicating clearly to engineers and business users.

Qualifications

• Extensive data engineering background with cloud and distributed systems.
• Deep understanding of domain-driven design and data mesh concepts.
• Experience leading data engineering teams and driving CI/CD.
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and set coding standards.
• Strong communication and collaboration across technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across product domains.
• Architect and design data platform, ensuring robustness and compliance.
• Mentor data engineers and drive capability building.
• Advance data mesh implementation including modelling and semantic layers.
• Collaborate with data platform and domain architects to optimise solutions.
• Promote governance, data quality, monitoring, and cost control.

Skills

Leadership

Architecture design

Mentorship

Cross-domain interoperability

Governance and compliance

Innovation and strategic influence

GCP experience

Data Mesh

Distributed systems

Data quality

Tools

BigQuery

DataFlow

Data Fusion

Data Stream

Cloud Functions

Airflow/Composer

Job description

Places for People is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead data engineering across product domains on Google Cloud Platform, shaping the data mesh and semantic layers. You will mentor engineers, set coding standards, and drive governance, quality checks, and cost control.

You will collaborate with the Data Platform Architect and domain teams to optimise the data platform while communicating clearly to engineers and business users.