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# GCP data engineer

- **Company:** EUROPEAN SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Database, Data Architecture, Data Validation, Information Engineering, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Database Development, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), Standard Sql, Google Cloud, DevOps Tools - Open-source, Real Time Data, Data Management
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/data-engineer/european-software-solutions-uk-limited-job107934045

## About the Role

* Expert-level GCP or cloud-based data engineering capability
 * Advanced practical experience of dbt, Python data engineering and SQL
 * Strong data modelling and ETL/ELT design skills
 * Proven end-to-end data product build experience
 * Experience applying AI-enabled approaches to data development
 * Strong testing, data validation and quality assurance capability
 * Data architecture expertise
 * MDM and enterprise data architecture experience, including strategy, solution selection, integration and implementation
 * DevOps, deployment, governance, and production go-live experience
 * Senior technical leadership capable of leading a multidisciplinary feature team

## Description

* Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comparable cloud-based data engineering services
 * dbt
 * Python
 * SQL
 * ETL/ELT tooling and methodologies
 * Data modelling and data product development
 * AI-enabled data development
 * Testing and validation frameworks
 * Master Data Management (MDM), including commercial off-the-shelf and bespoke solutions
 * MDM integration and implementation
 * Real-time data product patterns
 * DevOps tooling and deployment practices, The requirement is for two UK-based feature teams, each comprising six resources and led by a Senior Lead Data Engineer. All team members must be based in Bristol or Manchester; London-based delivery is specifically excluded. The teams are required to start immediately, and suppliers must propose resources who are available and capable of being onboarded without delay.

 * Improve the quality, richness, and consumption-readiness of FDP data.
 * Deliver FDPs end to end, from ODP selection through design, engagement and shaping, development, DevOps, testing, validation, governance, deployment and go-live.
 * Define and support MDM architecture and strategy.
 * Assess and implement commercial off-the-shelf MDM products where appropriate.
 * Design and develop bespoke MDM solutions.
 * Deliver MDM integration and implementation activities.
 * Design and implement real-time data product patterns.
 * Work within the applicable delivery, architecture, engineering, security and governance standards.
 * Provide experienced, delivery-ready practitioners; proposals based on academic exercises, speculative hiring or resources requiring extended mobilisation will not be accepted.


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