Data Engineer (GCP & GraphDB) - Mostly Remote

Engage People Recruitment; Dublin; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Engage People Recruitment is helping a leading multinational Telecoms company in Ireland to hire a Data Engineer. Mostly remote work, based in Ireland, urgent permanent role focusing on scalable data platforms and cloud-first pipelines.

You will design and optimize data models, build ETL/ELT pipelines across GCP and on-prem hybrid, work with Neo4j/Gremlin/Spanner and PostgreSQL, and collaborate with engineers and analysts to improve data quality and security.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills with solid relational and NoSQL experience.
• Proficient Python for data work.
• Hands-on experience with GCP and graph databases (Neo4j, Gremlin, Spanner) and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with cloud data tools: GCP BigQuery, Dataflow, dbt/Dataform.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of data modelling (star schema, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining data pipelines (ETL/ELT) across cloud environments.
• Working with large, messy datasets and turning them into something usable.
• Designing and optimising databases (relational + modern data warehouse setups).
• Collaborating with engineers and analysts to shape data models and improve data quality.
• Testing pipelines, validating transformations, and ensuring smooth operations.
• Getting involved in DevOps workflows, version control, and deployment pipelines.

Job description

Mostly Remote (Must be based in Ireland)

Urgent Hire

Permanent

A leading multinational Telecoms company are looking for a Data Engineer with strong hands-on experience with GCP, along with graph databases (e.g. Neo4j, Gremlin, Spanner) and PostgreSQL to join the team and help build scalable, reliable data platforms.

What you’ll be doing

• Building and maintaining data pipelines (ETL/ELT) across cloud environments
• Working with large, messy datasets (structured, semi-structured, unstructured) and turning them into something usable
• Designing and optimising databases (think relational + modern data warehouse setups)
• Collaborating with engineers and analysts to shape data models and improve data quality
• Testing pipelines, validating transformations, and making sure everything runs cleanly
• Getting involved in DevOps workflows, version control, and deployment pipelines

What they’re looking for

• Strong SQL skills and solid database experience (relational + ideally some NoSQL)
• Good Python experience for data work
• Strong hands-on experience with GCP, along with graph databases (e.g. Neo4j, Gremlin, Spanner) and PostgreSQL
• Hands-on experience with cloud data tools like:
• GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, dbt/Dataform)
• AWS (Glue, Lambda)
• Good understanding of data modelling (star schema, etc.)
• Experience working with Git and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong awareness of data security, access control, and compliance

Nice to have

• Experience in telecoms or similar high-scale environments
• Exposure to real-time/streaming data pipelines
• Any work around event-driven systems or modern data integration frameworks