Qodea, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Principal Data Engineer

Join Europe's leading, high‑growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea, you’ll be part of a team energised by innovation and passionate about delivering exceptional results. We craft cutting‑edge solutions in data and analytics, AI, cloud infrastructure and security, driving digital transformation that empowers our customers to scale, modernise, and lead in their industries. We’re driven by ideas and powered by our people.

How You’ll Shape Our Success

The 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 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 × 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 careers@qodea.com or connect with us on LinkedIn via our Qodea Company Page.