Staff Data Engineer - Hybrid (GCP, BigQuery, AI-Ready)

RVU Limited; London Borough of Southwark; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% discretionary bonus

Hybrid working: 2 days in office

Employer-matching pension up to 7.5%

Work-from-home budget £300

Job summary

Tempcover in London is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join the Data & Analytics team. You will lead the development of a cloud-based data platform on Google Cloud Platform, delivering ELT pipelines, data models, and quality controls to empower data-driven decisions across the business.

The role involves collaboration with data analysts and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions. A hybrid setup offers 2 in-office days per week with potential Fleet office options.

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL with complex queries, partitioning and cost-aware optimisation.
• Experience with modern orchestration/ELT tools like Dagster and dbt.
• Strong Python for data engineering tasks.
• Solid data warehousing knowledge and dimensional modelling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain ELT pipelines on BigQuery using dbt and Dagster+, with reliability and idempotency.
• Create and manage scalable data models for analytics.
• Propose and implement platform improvements.
• Lead performance monitoring and tuning.
• Implement data contracts, observability, and lineage.

Skills

Advanced SQL

Dagster/dbt

Python

Data warehousing

AI/LLM data models

Cloud data infra (GCP)

CI/CD

Git/DevOps

Tools

Dagster

dbt

BigQuery

Job description

Tempcover in London is seeking a Staff Data Engineer to join the Data & Analytics team. You will lead the development of a cloud-based data platform on Google Cloud Platform, delivering ELT pipelines, data models, and quality controls to empower data-driven decisions across the business.

The role involves collaboration with data analysts and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions. A hybrid setup offers 2 in-office days per week with potential Fleet office options.