Senior Data Engineer — GCP Data Platform Lead

Menzies LLP; Horsell; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Development

Competitive Benefits

Flexibility That Works for You

Perks That Go Beyond

Job summary

Menzies LLP is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development and operation of the firm's GCP data warehouse from our Woking office. You’ll design scalable pipelines, champion data governance, and enable insights through Power BI and automation.

You’ll shape the data platform across the firm, mentor colleagues, and collaborate with teams to deliver secure, scalable data products. Occasional travel to other offices may be required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data/analytics platform roles at senior or lead level.
• Strong SQL and Python for production data solutions.
• Experience with Cloud data warehouses, BigQuery and GCP ecosystem.
• Experience with Airflow/Cloud Composer, dbt, Git, CI/CD and Terraform or similar IaC tooling.
• Solid understanding of data modelling, orchestration, testing, data quality and monitoring.
• Ability to design and operate production-grade data pipelines integrating APIs, databases and files.
• Strong focus on data security, GDPR compliance and governance.
• Ability to turn ambiguous business needs into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Excellent communication and willingness to coach others across the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of scalable data pipelines into BigQuery from diverse sources.
• Shape the engineering approach across GCP with tools like BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Datastream and Airflow.
• Set high engineering standards for modelling, testing, deployments and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with internal teams to create scalable data products and data access through Power BI and automation.
• Embed security and governance by design across data lineage, access controls and sensitive data handling.
• Provide technical leadership, review designs, mentor engineers and strengthen team capabilities.
• Enable data to deliver business value with accessible warehouse outputs and AI workstreams.
• Evaluate build-vs-buy options balancing value, security, and cost.
• Promote data enablement and safe data usage across Menzies; influence roadmap.

Skills

Data engineering

Analytics engineering

SQL

Python

BigQuery

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Airflow

dbt

Git

Terraform

CI/CD

Data modelling

Data security and governance

Leadership / mentoring

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Cloud Composer

Power BI

Job description

Menzies LLP is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the development and operation of the firm's GCP data warehouse from our Woking office. You’ll design scalable pipelines, champion data governance, and enable insights through Power BI and automation.

You’ll shape the data platform across the firm, mentor colleagues, and collaborate with teams to deliver secure, scalable data products. Occasional travel to other offices may be required.