GCP Data Engineer

Salary: £68,000 - 108,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong experience as a Data Engineer within GCP environments
• Hands-on experience with BigQuery, Dataflow and Spanner
• Strong programming capability in Python, Java or Scala
• Experience with Apache Beam / Dataflow and distributed processing frameworks
• Experience designing and managing ETL / ELT pipelines
• Solid understanding of data modelling and database design
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow
• Strong understanding of data governance, security and scalability
• Experience with Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer or Cloud Data Fusion
• Exposure to CI/CD, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with real-time streaming architectures
• Knowledge of modern data governance frameworks

Responsibilities:

• Design and build scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows and cloud data architectures on GCP
• Develop solutions using services such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Spanner and Cloud Storage
• Build and maintain code using Python, Java or Scala for data transformation and processing
• Optimise data pipelines, queries and workloads for performance and scalability
• Implement data quality, validation and governance controls
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions
• Ensure alignment with security, privacy and compliance standards
• Troubleshoot issues across pipelines and processing workflows
• Maintain documentation across data flows, platforms and architectures

Technologies:

• Airflow
• BigQuery
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Composer
• DevOps
• ETL
• GCP
• Java
• Python
• Scala
• Security
• Support

More:

We are a globally established organisation offering a permanent GCP Data Engineer position based in London on a hybrid basis, with 3 days per week onsite. This full-time role offers a salary of up to 85,000 plus bonus and benefits. You will help build modern, scalable cloud data platforms within a complex enterprise environment, with strong exposure to cloud transformation and enterprise-scale data delivery.

last updated 36 week of 2026