Job Description

Posted 3 hours ago

Lead Data Engineer (GCP) | £600–£650pd | Outside IR35 | Remote

12-Month Contract | Outside IR35 | £600–£650 per day | UK Remote (1 day per month in London or Leeds)

Are you a hands-on Lead Data Engineer with strong GCP experience who enjoys shaping technical direction, building scalable data solutions and setting engineering standards?

We're looking for an experienced GCP Data Engineering Lead to play a key role in the development of a large-scale Unified Data Platform, taking ownership of how data is ingested, integrated and onboarded.

This isn't just about building pipelines – it's about designing the frameworks, patterns and standards that make data ingestion scalable, automated and repeatable.

What You'll Be Doing

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Leading the design of scalable, cloud-native data ingestion solutions on GCP.

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Building reusable, metadata-driven ingestion frameworks and pipelines.

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Setting engineering standards and providing technical leadership to Data Engineers.

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Driving automation, consistency and best practice across the data platform.

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Shaping ingestion architecture to support a wider enterprise data ecosystem.

What You'll Bring

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Strong hands-on GCP Data Engineering experience.

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Excellent Python and SQL skills.

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Experience with GCP technologies such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and Cloud Composer / Airflow.

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Proven experience designing ETL/ELT pipelines, ingestion frameworks and metadata-driven solutions.

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Strong understanding of cloud data architecture, reusable engineering patterns and automation.

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Experience leading technical delivery, defining standards and mentoring engineers.

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Exposure to Terraform, CI/CD, data quality or data governance would be beneficial.

The Contract

* £600–£650 per day – Outside IR35

* Initial 12-month engagement

* UK Remote – just 1 day per month onsite in London or Leeds

* Opportunity to influence the architecture and engineering direction of a major GCP data platform.

If you're a Lead / Principal Data Engineer with strong GCP expertise and enjoy building solutions that scale beyond individual projects, this could be a great fit.

Interested? Apply now with your latest CV to find out more