Senior Data Platform Lead - ELT & DBT on GCP

OMGEURUK Omnicom Media Group Europe; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Media invites a Data Engineer to join the Data and Technology team. You will own and extend our config‑driven data platform, standardising ingestion, transformation, and delivery of paid media data across 26+ ad platforms for global clients, building ELT pipelines from Cloud Function ingestion into BigQuery through dbt transformations.

You will mentor a team of data engineers, push DataOps best practices, and collaborate with analysts and BI teams to maximise value from data models.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with dbt—macros, Jinja templates, incremental models, seeds, testing, and packages.
• Proficient in Python 3.11+ building CLI tools, data processing, and automation.
• Proficient in SQL, ideally BigQuery dialect.
• Experience with GCP services (BigQuery, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) for provisioning cloud resources.
• Solid understanding of data modelling techniques (star schema, dim/fact).
• Comfortable with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical specs.

Responsibilities

• Own and extend end-to-end data pipelines from ingestion to analysis-ready tables.
• Develop and maintain dbt macros, templates, and platform definitions.
• Manage and improve GCP infrastructure provisioned via Terraform.
• Build Python CLI tooling to orchestrate onboarding, configuration, and pipeline runs.
• Mentor data engineers and promote DataOps and code quality.
• Identify opportunities to automate and scale data delivery.
• Collaborate with analysts and BI teams to maximise data value.
• Contribute to CI/CD, testing, and documentation.

Skills

dbt

Python

SQL

GCP

Terraform

Data modelling

Git & CI/CD

Mentorship

Tools

BigQuery

Cloud Run

Cloud Functions

Terraform

dbt

Job description

Omnicom Media invites a Data Engineer to join the Data and Technology team. You will own and extend our config‑driven data platform, standardising ingestion, transformation, and delivery of paid media data across 26+ ad platforms for global clients, building ELT pipelines from Cloud Function ingestion into BigQuery through dbt transformations.

You will mentor a team of data engineers, push DataOps best practices, and collaborate with analysts and BI teams to maximise value from data models.