Principal Data Engineer

Qodea; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Google Cloud consultancy is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to drive innovative data solutions for enterprise clients. The role requires expertise in cloud data architecture, technical leadership on projects, and strong coding skills in Python or Scala. Candidates should have a proven track record in large-scale data migration and a consultative approach. Competitive salary and extensive perks including 36 days of annual leave and flexible working options offered.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Matching pension scheme

Discretionary company bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

36 days annual leave

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• Strong experience as a Senior / Principal Cloud Data Engineer.
• Experience working on projects within large enterprise organisations.
• Experience in performing a technical leadership role on projects.
• Demonstrable experience of utilising strong communication skills.
• Significant experience of coding in Python and Scala or Java.
• Prior experience in a customer-facing consultancy role.

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements and team lead on client-facing delivery projects.
• Consult, design, coordinate architecture to modernise infrastructure.
• Deliver highly scalable big data architecture solutions.
• Document and share technical best practices with engineering colleagues.
• Mentor and develop engineers within the Data Team.

Skills

Data architecture expertise

Technical leadership

Stakeholder management

Python coding

Scala or Java coding

Big data processing

Cloud services experience

Terraform experience

Tools

Google Cloud services

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Join Europe's leading, high-growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea, you’ll be part of a team energised by innovation and passionate about delivering exceptional results. We craft cutting-edge solutions in data and analytics, AI, cloud infrastructure and security, driving digital transformation that empowers our customers to scale, modernise and lead in their industries. We’re driven by ideas and powered by our people.

We are looking for a Principal Data Engineer to work alongside our market-leading engineers and architects to deliver complex projects and make valuable impacts for our customers.

How You’ll Shape Our Success

The purpose of this role is to engage with enterprise-level organisations to offer a consultative view and direction on best practice data architecture using Google Cloud solutions.

What You’ll Do

Lead client engagements and project delivery:

• Lead client engagements and team lead on client-facing delivery projects
• Consult, design, coordinate architecture to modernise infrastructure for performance, scalability, latency, and reliability
• Identify, scope, and participate in the design and delivery of cloud data platform solutions

Deliver highly scalable big data architecture solutions using Google Cloud Technology:

• Create and maintain appropriate standards and best practices around Google Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and other data technologies
• Design and execute a platform modernization approach for customers' data environments
• Document and share technical best practices/insights with engineering colleagues and the Data Engineering community
• Mentor and develop engineers within the Qodea Data Team and within our customers' engineering teams
• Act as the point of escalation with client-facing problems that need solving

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• Strong experience as a Senior / Principal Cloud Data Engineer, with a solid track record of migrating large volumes of of data through the use of cloud data services and modern tooling
• Experience working on projects within large enterprise organisations either as an internal resource or as a 3rd party consultant
• Experience in performing a technical leadership role on projects and contributing to technical decision making during in-flight projects.
• A track record of being involved in a wide range of projects with various tools and technologies, and solving a broad range of problems using your technical skills.
• Demonstrable experience of utilising strong communication and stakeholder management skills when engaging with customers
• Significant experience of coding in Python and Scala or Java
• Experience with big data processing tools such as Hadoop or Spark
• Cloud experience; GCP specifically in this case, including services such as Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, GCS, Secret Manager, Vertex AI etc.
• Experience with Terraform
• Prior experience in a customer-facing consultancy role would be highly desirable

How You’ll Grow

• Exceptional performance in this role can lead to advancement opportunities within our career framework or internal opportunities with other business areas, aligned with your career aspirations and business needs.
• Potential career development could include progression to the next level or cross-skilling into related roles, based on performance and ongoing development.

Financial:

• Competitive base salary.
• Matching pension scheme (up to 5%) from day one.
• Discretionary company bonus scheme.
• 4 x annual salary Death in Service coverage from day one.
• Employee referral scheme.

Health and Wellbeing:

• Private medical insurance from day one.
• Help@Hand app: access to remote GPs, second opinions, mental health support, and physiotherapy.
• EAP service
• Cycle to Work scheme.

Time Off and Flexibility:

• 36 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays).
• An extra paid day off for your birthday.
• Ten paid learning days per year.
• Flexible working hours.
• Market-leading parental leave.
• Sabbatical leave (after five years).
• Work from anywhere (up to 3 weeks per year).

Development and Recognition:

• Industry-recognised training and certifications.
• Bonusly employee recognition and rewards platform.
• Clear opportunities for career development.
• Length of Service Awards

Extra Perks:

• Regular company events.
• Tech Scheme.

At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all. If you feel we can improve in any way, please reach out to our careers team via email at [e-mail] or connect with us on LinkedIn via our Qodea Company Page.