How You’ll Shape Our SuccessThe purpose of this role is to engage with enterprise-level organisations to offer a consultative view and direction on best practice data architecture using Google Cloud solutions.
What You’ll Do*Lead client engagements and project delivery:*
Lead client engagements and team lead on client-facing delivery projects
Consult, design, coordinate architecture to modernise infrastructure for performance, scalability, latency, and reliability
Identify, scope, and participate in the design and delivery of cloud data platform solutions
*Deliver highly scalable big data architecture solutions using Google Cloud Technology:*
Create and maintain appropriate standards and best practices around Google Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and other data technologies
Design and execute a platform modernization approach for customers' data environments
Document and share technical best practices/insights with engineering colleagues and the Data Engineering community
Mentor and develop engineers within the Qodea Data Team and within our customers' engineering teams
Act as the point of escalation with client-facing problems that need solving
Requirements
What You’ll Need to Succeed
Strong experience as a Senior / Principal Cloud Data Engineer, with a solid track record of migrating large volumes of of data through the use of cloud data services and modern tooling
Experience working on projects within large enterprise organisations either as an internal resource or as a 3rd party consultant
Experience in performing a technical leadership role on projects and contributing to technical decision making during in-flight projects.
A track record of being involved in a wide range of projects with various tools and technologies, and solving a broad range of problems using your technical skills.
Demonstrable experience of utilising strong communication and stakeholder management skills when engaging with customers
Significant experience of coding in Python and Scala or Java
Experience with big data processing tools such as Hadoop or Spark
Cloud experience; GCP specifically in this case, including services such as Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, GCS, Secret Manager, Vertex AI etc.
Experience with Terraform
Prior experience in a customer-facing consultancy role would be highly desirable
How You’ll Grow
Exceptional performance in this role can lead to advancement opportunities within our career framework or internal opportunities with other business areas, aligned with your career aspirations and business needs.
Potential career development could include progression to the next level or cross-skilling into related roles, based on performance and ongoing development.
Benefits
**Financial:**
Competitive base salary.
Matching pension scheme (up to 5%) from day one.
Discretionary company bonus scheme.
4 x annual salary Death in Service coverage from day one.
Employee referral scheme.
**Health and Wellbeing:**
Private medical insurance from day one.
Help@Hand app: access to remote GPs, second opinions, mental health support, and physiotherapy.
EAP service
Cycle to Work scheme.
**Time Off and Flexibility:**
36 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays).
An extra paid day off for your birthday.
Ten paid learning days per year.
Flexible working hours.
Market-leading parental leave.
Sabbatical leave (after five years).
Work from anywhere (up to 3 weeks per year).
**Development and Recognition:**
Industry-recognised training and certifications.
Bonusly employee recognition and rewards platform.
Clear opportunities for career development.
Length of Service Awards
**Extra Perks:**
Regular company events.
Tech Scheme.
At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all. If you feel we can improve in any way, please reach out to our careers team via email at [email protected] or connect with us on LinkedIn via our Qodea Company Page.
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