Engineering Lead - Enterprise Data Provisioning with GCP

Job Position: Engineering Lead - Enterprise Data Provisioning with GCP

Location: London, UK(Hybrid)

Type of Hiring: Contract(6+ months)

Job Description:

Key technologies/products:

• GCP: BigQuery, Dataproc, Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Spanner, Pub/Sub, Dataplex.

Data Architecture:

• Data Mesh, Data Products, Enterprise Data Models, Data Fabric, Event-Driven Architecture, Data Warehousing.

Data Engineering:

• ETL/ELT, dbt-based transformation frameworks.

AI:

• RAG, Agentic Engineering, GenAI applications, AI-assisted engineering accelerators.

Leadership & Delivery:

• Portfolio governance, investment planning, organisational transformation and executive reporting.

Skillsets required:

Must have experience:

• Clear, demonstrable experience as a Head of Department/Director running all aspects of financial, people, change and stakeholder management.
• Clear, demonstrable experience of Leading complex technology and people change across a complex, regulated matrix organisation.
• Clear, demonstrable experience of leading large, multi-location engineering teams to achieve business desired outcomes at scale of 6 – 12 feature team Lab size.
• Clear, demonstrable experience of architecting, developing, delivering, and transitioning at least 2 data warehouse transformations or data migrations to Cloud.
• Establishing transformation roadmaps, intervention plans, and executive reporting structures.
• Managing complex dependencies across technology, architecture, platform, and business teams.
• Must have experience developing AI-led engineering teams.

Core skills:

• Modern Data Architecture:
  • Data Mesh
  • Data Products
  • Enterprise Data Models
  • Logical and Physical Data Modelling
  • Data Warehousing
  • Metadata-driven architectures
  • Data Fabric concepts
  • Event-driven architectures
  • Enterprise ingestion and transformation patterns
  • Data interoperability and consumption readiness design principles.
• Cloud Data Engineering:
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • BigQuery
  • Dataproc
  • Dataflow
  • Cloud Composer
  • Spanner
  • Pub/Sub
  • Dataplex
  • ELT and ETL architectures
  • dbt-based transformation frameworks
• AI-Enabled Engineering:
  • AI-assisted engineering accelerators
  • RAG-based knowledge systems
  • Agentic engineering solutions
  • AI-driven transformation tooling
  • Generative AI applications for data engineering and architecture domains
  • Experience taking AI concepts from experimentation into production environments
• Delivery Management & Governance:
  • Portfolio governance
  • Risk and dependency management
  • Federated delivery enablement
  • Large-scale roadmap creation
  • Technology investment planning
  • Organisational transformation
  • Delivery assurance and executive reporting

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