Senior Data Engineer, Production Data Pipelines (Cloud)

Vodafone; Newbury; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Vodafone VOIS is expanding its Data Products & Insights team in the UK, with a Senior Data Engineer role based in Newbury or Paddington. You will design and operate production-grade data pipelines and services, transforming platform data into usable data-product capabilities while adhering to architecture standards.

You will collaborate with Product, Architecture, Platform, Data Science and ML/AI Engineering to support trusted data for analytics, model development and production AI.

Qualifications

• Substantial practical experience in Data Engineering or software engineering for production data products.
• Strong Python and SQL skills and practical experience across data modelling, transformation and orchestration.
• Experience with dbt or equivalent transformation tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test and operate product-specific data pipelines, transformations, data models and serving interfaces using approved platform capabilities.
• Develop maintainable Python, SQL and dbt or equivalent code using automated testing, version control, continuous delivery and clear documentation.
• Implement agreed data contracts, semantic definitions, data-quality rules, metadata and lineage, alongside appropriate privacy and access controls.
• Own production readiness for assigned data-product components, including monitoring, runbooks, incident response, resilience, performance and cost.
• Work across batch, streaming, event-driven and API integration patterns to meet data-product requirements.
• Collaborate with Data Science and ML & AI Engineering on trusted feature, training, inference and outcome data.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production and data defects, helping reduce recurrence and improve operational reliability.

Skills

Python

SQL

dbt

Data modelling

Google Cloud Platform

CI/CD

Git

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Vodafone VOIS is expanding its Data Products & Insights team in the UK, with a Senior Data Engineer role based in Newbury or Paddington. You will design and operate production-grade data pipelines and services, transforming platform data into usable data-product capabilities while adhering to architecture standards.

You will collaborate with Product, Architecture, Platform, Data Science and ML/AI Engineering to support trusted data for analytics, model development and production AI.