Data Engineer INTERIM (Google Cloud & Digital Analytics)

Riverflex; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 96,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Riverflex is seeking a Freelance Data Engineer to own and evolve the data platform for a Dutch consumer brand from Amsterdam. You will manage the data models, pipelines, and architecture in Google Cloud Platform, with BigQuery at the core.

You will collaborate directly with marketing and digital stakeholders, teaching others and elevating engineering practices across the team. You will deploy ML models, monitor production pipelines, and ensure data quality and governance.

Qualifications

• Must have strong commercial experience as a data engineer on Google Cloud Platform with deep BigQuery knowledge.
• Hands-on expertise in dbt for data modelling and transformation.
• Production experience with Airflow or equivalent orchestrator.
• Practical GA4 experience, including working with the raw BigQuery export.
• Experience with Google Tag Manager and digital analytics implementation.

Responsibilities

• Own the data platform and pipelines on Google Cloud, with BigQuery at the centre.
• Develop and maintain transformation models in dbt.
• Design, run and monitor orchestrated pipelines in Airflow.
• Write production Python for ingestion, transformation and automation.
• Own GA4 implementation, data exports to BigQuery, and analytics governance.
• Mentor and raise engineering practice, documenting everything to avoid single points of failure.

Skills

Google Cloud

BigQuery

dbt

Airflow

Python

GA4

Google Tag Manager

MLOps

Mentoring

Job description

Freelance / Interim | Hybrid (Amsterdam) | Start December 2026

Our client is a well‑known Dutch consumer brand with a substantial digital and e‑commerce operation. Their digital department runs on Google Cloud, and the data platform underneath it drives marketing decisions, customer analytics and a growing set of machine learning use cases. You are joining to take ownership of that platform as the current engineer moves on.

This is a broad remit held by one person. You own the data models, the pipelines and the architecture, and you work directly with marketing and digital stakeholders rather than through layers. You also bring other members of the team up the curve, so part of the job is teaching, not just building.

About Riverflex

Riverflex was founded in Amsterdam and London in 2018, eventually growing into a global team of consultants united by a mission to help courageous leaders drive transformative change. Today, we offer an integrated service through three service pillars: strategy and transformation consulting that Creates Change, talent services that Build Teams, and business‑accelerating products that Augment Intelligence. For more information, visit www.riverflex.com.

Responsibilities

Data platform and pipelines

• You own and extend the data architecture on Google Cloud, with BigQuery at its centre.
• You build and maintain transformation models in dbt.
• You design, run and monitor orchestrated pipelines in Airflow.
• You write production Python for ingestion, transformation and automation.

Digital and marketing analytics

• You own the GA4 implementation and its BigQuery export, turning raw event data into models the business can use.
• You manage Google Tag Manager, including tagging strategy, data layer design and governance.
• You work directly with marketing and digital teams to translate their questions into data they can act on.

Machine learning

• You deploy, monitor and maintain machine learning models in production.
• You build the pipelines and infrastructure that keep those models fed and running.

Enablement

• You mentor others in the team, raising the standard of engineering practice around you.
• You document what you build, so the platform does not depend on one person.

Job requirements

• Strong commercial experience as a data engineer on Google Cloud Platform, with deep BigQuery knowledge.
• Hands‑on expertise in dbt for data modelling and transformation.
• Production experience with Airflow or an equivalent orchestrator.
• Practical GA4 experience, including working with the raw BigQuery export.
• Working knowledge of Google Tag Manager and digital analytics implementation.
• MLOps experience: deploying and maintaining models in production, not only building them.
• A track record of mentoring or coaching other engineers.
• Comfortable working directly with non‑technical marketing and commercial stakeholders.
• Available from December 2026, with the right to work in the EU.

The following are a plus:

• Experience in retail, e‑commerce or consumer brands.
• Exposure to consent management and privacy‑compliant tracking.

Why this role

You own the whole stack rather than a slice of it, from tag to model to production. The client is a consumer brand with real scale, so the data you work with reflects genuine customer behaviour rather than a proof of concept. The remit is wide and the autonomy is real, which suits someone who wants to shape a platform rather than maintain someone else’s.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, medical condition, or disability. Even if you believe you do not tick all the aforementioned requirements for the role, we still encourage you to take the time to apply.