GCP Data Engineer

GCP Data Engineer / Consultant Specialist

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Department: CTO Data - Data Tech IWPB & UK - Data Tech IWPB

In This Role, You Will

• Design and deliver batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest data from multiple sources into GCP.
• Gather requirements with stakeholders and translate business needs into scalable data solutions.
• Build Apache Beam pipelines on GCP Dataflow for extraction, transformation, and analytical preparation.
• Integrate data from databases, APIs, and flat files while enforcing data quality, consistency, and governance.
• Manage and optimise GCP storage/warehouse layers (BigQuery, Cloud Storage) for analytics and reporting.
• Orchestrate and automate workflows using Airflow/Cloud Composer; reduce manual operations through automation.
• Implement observability (monitoring/alerting), troubleshoot bottlenecks, and ensure SLA/SLO adherence.
• Lead SRE practices: reliability strategy, incident response, post-mortems, documentation, security/compliance, and continuous improvement.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IT (or equivalent experience).
• Proven ETL/ELT experience: data modelling, data warehousing concepts, and strong SQL.
• Strong GCP experience (certification preferred), especially BigQuery/Cloud Storage/Dataflow.
• Big data batch + streaming expertise (e.g., Kafka, Spark/Flink, Hadoop/Hive/HBase, dbt).
• Proficiency in Java and/or Python for data engineering and data manipulation.
• Proven SRE/DevOps experience: architecture, reliability, automation, and operational excellence.
• Incident management capability: on-call/response, RCA, and post-mortem execution.
• Strong communication and problem-solving; experience with AI/LLM (preferably financial services).

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Key skills/competency

• GCP Data Engineering
• ETL/ELT Design and Delivery
• Apache Beam on Dataflow
• BigQuery and Cloud Storage Management
• Airflow/Cloud Composer Orchestration
• SRE Practices
• Data Integration
• SQL Proficiency
• Python/Java Development
• AI/LLM Experience