data engineer

infrastructure: event tracking, ingestion pipelines, and analytics tooling Manage data collection pipelines via Snowplow, GTM (server-side and client-side), and Airflow-orchestrated workflows running on Cloud Composer Build and maintain BigQuery datasets: partitioning, clustering, cost optimization, scheduled queries, and access controls Write and maintain Python scripts for data ingestion, transformation, and reporting Manage Cloud Storage (GCS) for data staging, Snowplow enriched event storage, and pipeline artifacts Configure and maintain GCP IAM, service accounts, and access controls across services and external APIs Monitor and debug pipelines using Cloud Logging & Monitoring; set up alerting and ensure pipeline observability Work with relational and non-relational databases: schema design, query optimization, performance tuning Collaborate with frontend, QA, DevOps, and product teams Participate in code reviews and uphold code quality standards Contribute to technical improvements

(testing, observability, performance, maintainability) Mentor mid-level engineers and contribute to architectural decisions Requirements Python - hands-on experience writing production scripts and data pipelines SQL - strong practical experience: queries, indexes, performance tuning, and analytical workloads Google Cloud Platform - working experience across GCP services including: BigQuery - partitioning, clustering, cost optimization, scheduled queries, access controls Cloud Composer - managed Airflow: DAG deployment, environment configuration, GCP Console monitoring Cloud Storage (GCS) - data staging, pipeline artifacts, enriched event storage IAM & service accounts - secure access management across GCP services and external APIs Cloud Logging & Monitoring - pipeline observability, alerting, and debugging Apache Airflow / Cloud Composer - building and maintaining DAGs and data workflows Google Tag Manager - server-side and client-side configuration and managementAzure Databricks - data processing and analytics workloads Understanding of clean code principles (maintainable, testable pipelines and scripts) Comfortable with Git and code review workflows Nice-to-have Skills C# and .NET Core - backend/API development experience is a plus REST APIs - design, implementation, authentication/authorization basics SQL Server / T-SQL - experience with Microsoft SQL Server environments Snowplow - event tracking setup and data collection pipelines MongoDB Elasticsearch RabbitMQ or similar queuing system Docker / containers GraphQL (building or consuming APIs) Background job processing (e.g. Hangfire) Observability tools (e.g. New Relic or similar) PowerShell scripting Agile tooling (e.g. Jira) AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, etc.) Benefits We prioritise office presence and emphasise in-person collaboration, but also offer appropriate adjustments where needed, in line with company policy Extra wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance Up to

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