Qodea Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Principal Data Engineer

Join Europe’s leading high‑growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea, you will be part of a team energized 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.

What You’ll Do

• Lead client engagements and serve as team lead on client‑facing delivery projects.
• Consult, design and 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.
• Create and maintain appropriate standards and best practices around Google Cloud SQL, BigQuery and other data technologies.
• Design and execute a platform modernisation approach for customers’ data environments.
• Document and share technical best practices and 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

• Strong experience as a Senior/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 organisations either as an internal resource or as a third‑party consultant.
• Experience 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 coding in Python and Scala or Java.
• Experience with big data processing tools such as Hadoop or Spark.
• Cloud experience – GCP specifically, 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 is 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

• 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
• 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
• 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)
• Industry‑recognised training and certifications
• Bonusly employee recognition and rewards platform
• Clear opportunities for career development
• Length of service awards
• Regular company events
• Tech Scheme

Diversity & Inclusion

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.

For any questions or additional information, please contact our careers team at careers@qodea.com or connect with us on LinkedIn via our Qodea Company Page.