BigQuery & Data Platform Engineer — Hybrid, Secure Data

SolarWinds; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

SolarWinds is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to own BigQuery platform administration, Dataplex-based data security, and end-to-end ELT integrity across the Enterprise Data stack. The role emphasizes governance, auditable IAM, and adoption of new BigQuery features to improve performance and cost efficiency.

The candidate will lead data ingestion reliability, platform administration, and runbooks while collaborating with Data Governance and Cloud Security teams to ensure compliance and secure

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, especially BigQuery, in a production environment.
• Deep knowledge of BigQuery for best practices and cost optimisation (partitioning, clustering, slot management).
• Experience with Dataplex - policy tags, masking, and fine-grained IAM roles.

Responsibilities

• Monitor ingestion and BigQuery platform reliability (Fivetran connectors, dataset structure, access management).
• Advise on BigQuery best practices, feature adoption, and cost management.
• Maintain runbooks and operational documentation for the tools managed.

Skills

BigQuery

GCP

SQL

Data governance

Incident management

Runbooks

Tools

Dataplex

Fivetran

Airbyte

CData

GCP CLI

Python

Bash

Tableau

Job description

SolarWinds is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to own BigQuery platform administration, Dataplex-based data security, and end-to-end ELT integrity across the Enterprise Data stack. The role emphasizes governance, auditable IAM, and adoption of new BigQuery features to improve performance and cost efficiency.

The candidate will lead data ingestion reliability, platform administration, and runbooks while collaborating with Data Governance and Cloud Security teams to ensure compliance and secure