Senior GCP Data Engineer | Dataflow, BigQuery & Beam

Understanding Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 92,000; Part time

Job summary

Understanding Solutions is recruiting a Senior GCP Data Engineer for a major UK media organisation. The role focuses on Dataflow, Dataform, Apache Beam and BigQuery within existing GCP pipelines.

You will aim to improve performance, potentially rearchitect, and deliver quick wins that reduce processing time and monthly costs. The contract is outside IR35, £500 per day, for two months with a strong likelihood of extension. London-based with two days per week on-site.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience with Dataflow, Dataform, Apache Beam & BigQuery.
• Experience assessing and improving existing brownfield data pipelines.
• Evidence of performance optimisation, cost reduction or rearchitecture.
• The ability to get up to speed quickly and work confidently with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Assess, improve and potentially rearchitect an existing GCP integration connecting operational customer data with a leading CRM platform.
• Shape the technical direction, deliver quick wins and implement improvements that reduce processing time, monthly costs and overall complexity.

Skills

Dataflow

Dataform

Apache Beam

BigQuery

GCP

Data pipelines

Cost reduction

Performance optimisation

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Braze

CRM

MarTech

Job description

Understanding Solutions is recruiting a Senior GCP Data Engineer for a major UK media organisation. The role focuses on Dataflow, Dataform, Apache Beam and BigQuery within existing GCP pipelines.

You will aim to improve performance, potentially rearchitect, and deliver quick wins that reduce processing time and monthly costs. The contract is outside IR35, £500 per day, for two months with a strong likelihood of extension. London-based with two days per week on-site.