Senior BigQuery Data Engineer (Hybrid)

Checkout; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Checkout.com is seeking an ambitious Data Engineer to join our Data Platform Team. The role focuses on building a world-class data platform powering products and analytics at scale, across AWS/GCP environments.

You will enable hundreds of teams and petabyte-scale data, while mentoring juniors and driving best practices across the organisation. The hybrid model offers three days in the office.

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background with a track record of implementing and owning components of a data platform.
• Strong experience working with Cloud data warehousing technologies, in particular with BigQuery optimisation and FinOps.
• Experience working with modern cloud-based stacks such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Excellent SQL skills.
• Strong programming skills with at least one of Python, Java, Scala or C#.
• You’re a mentor, raising the bar for your colleagues.
• You’re a collaborator, always ready to dive in and partner to solve tough problems.
• You’re a listener, and seek to understand the underlying problems, before pitching solutions
• You are able to drive through best practices by taking teams and organisations as a whole with you.
• You are a thought leader, so we’d love to see articles, podcasts, meetups or conference talks if you’ve done them

Responsibilities

• You’ll work as part of the team to build enablement components across the platform, as well as monitor and support the capabilities we offer.
• Develop and maintain documentation for data systems and processes.
• Participate in code and design reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Wherever possible, automate workflows and processes, we’re aiming for the platform to be as self‑sustaining as possible.
• Stay up‑to‑date with the latest data and streaming engineering technologies and trends.
• Use that knowledge and subject matter expertise to mentor the more junior members of the team, and work with other “application” teams to provide guidance and best practice.
• Build light weight tooling and associated reference patterns to foster the adoption of the platform by enabling upstream teams and systems to easily publish and manipulate data and deploy applications using industry best practices
• Implement all the necessary infrastructure to enable end users to build, host, monitor and deploy their own applications
• Provide consultancy across the technology organisation to drive the adoption of the platform and unlock use‑cases
• Promote data quality and governance as a first class citizen of the platform

Skills

Engineering background

BigQuery

Cloud experience

SQL skills

Programming languages

Mentorship

Collaboration

Active listening

Best practices

Thought leadership

Job description

Checkout.com is seeking an ambitious Data Engineer to join our Data Platform Team. The role focuses on building a world-class data platform powering products and analytics at scale, across AWS/GCP environments.

You will enable hundreds of teams and petabyte-scale data, while mentoring juniors and driving best practices across the organisation. The hybrid model offers three days in the office.