Senior Data Engineer - Cloud Data Platform Lead

Menzies LLP; Manchester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

Pension matching

Flexible working

Job summary

Menzies LLP is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and deliver scalable data pipelines in a Google Cloud Platform environment, with a focus on BigQuery, DBT and Airflow. You will partner with stakeholders to turn business needs into reusable data products while upholding security, governance and performance.

You will mentor engineers, review designs, and shape the Innovation Team roadmap, enabling data to drive real business value across the firm.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering/analytics engineering or data platform roles at senior/lead level.
• Strong SQL and Python for production data solutions.
• Hands-on with cloud data warehouses (BigQuery) and GCP ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of scalable, resilient data pipelines into BigQuery.
• Shape engineering approach across GCP and IaC tooling.
• Set high engineering standards: data modelling, dbt transformations, testing, monitoring and cost optimisation.
• Partner with teams to turn business needs into reusable data products.
• Embed security and governance by design with GDPR compliance and access controls.
• Provide technical leadership: review designs, mentor engineers, raise standards.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

BigQuery

GCP

Airflow/Composer

dbt

GitHub

CI/CD

Terraform

Data modelling

Data quality

Monitoring

Security/GDPR

Leadership

Stakeholder comms

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

BigQuery

Cloud Composer/Airflow

dbt

Git/GitHub

CI/CD

Terraform

Job description

Menzies LLP is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and deliver scalable data pipelines in a Google Cloud Platform environment, with a focus on BigQuery, DBT and Airflow. You will partner with stakeholders to turn business needs into reusable data products while upholding security, governance and performance.

You will mentor engineers, review designs, and shape the Innovation Team roadmap, enabling data to drive real business value across the firm.