Principal Data Engineer

Elevate your career at Qodea, a global technology group built for next‑generation solutions. When you join us, you’ll tackle problems that have no pre‑existing answers, working with enterprise clients such as Google, Snap, Diageo, PayPal, and Jaguar Land Rover.

What You’ll Do

• Lead client engagements and serve as the team lead on delivery projects.
• Consult, design, and coordinate architecture to modernize infrastructure for performance, scalability, latency, and reliability.
• Identify scope and participate in the design and delivery of cloud data platform solutions on Google Cloud.
• Create and maintain best practices around Google Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and related data technologies.
• Design and execute a platform modernization approach for customers’ data environments.
• Document and share technical best practices and insights with engineering colleagues and the broader data engineering community.
• Mentor and develop engineers within the Qodea Data Team and within customers’ engineering teams.
• Act as the point of escalation for client‑facing problems that need solving.

Requirements

• Senior or Principal Cloud Data Engineer with a solid track record of migrating large volumes of data through cloud data services and modern tooling.
• Experience working on projects within large enterprise organizations, either as an internal resource or as a third‑party consultant.
• Technical leadership experience on projects and contributing to technical decision making during in‑flight projects.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills when engaging with customers.
• Significant experience coding in Python, Scala, or Java.
• Experience with big data processing tools such as Hadoop or Spark.
• Cloud experience with GCP, including Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, GCS, Secret Manager, Vertex AI, and related services.
• Experience with Terraform.
• Prior experience in a customer‑facing consultancy role is highly desirable.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus scheme.
• Matching pension scheme (up to 5%) from day one.
• 4 × annual salary death‑in‑service coverage from day one.
• Employee referral scheme.
• Tech scheme.
• Private medical insurance from day one.
• Optical and dental cash‑back scheme.
• EAP service and mental health support.
• 36 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays). Extra paid day off for birthday.
• 10 paid learning days per year and flexible working hours.
• Market‑leading parental leave and sabbatical leave after five years.
• Work from anywhere up to 3 weeks per year and industry‑recognised training certifications.
• Clear opportunities for career development and length‑of‑service awards.