Capgemini

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Data Engineer - London, UK

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9 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own the platform technical roadmap and align engineering outcomes with business priorities and operational resilience.
  • Lead solution design for integrations and platform capabilities while balancing delivery speed and maintainability.
  • Design and develop reliable ETL pipelines orchestrated with Airflow, including scheduling, dependencies, retries, backfills, and processing.
  • Establish source-system onboarding and downstream vendor delivery patterns with strong reliability and traceability.
  • Drive data quality controls, validation, reconciliation, exception handling, and operational runbooks.
  • Evolve multitenant architecture, tenant isolation, configuration management, metadata-driven pipelines, and scalable runtime patterns.
  • Optimize platform performance, cost, reliability, capacity, and operational service levels across environments.
  • Improve build and deployment automation for platform services and Airflow DAGs, including versioning, packaging, promotion, approval, testing, scanning, and rollback strategies.
  • Implement end-to-end data lineage and improve logging, metrics, alerting, dashboards, and incident-resolution outcomes.
  • Partner with product owners, data owners, architects, vendors, and governance teams to shape requirements and manage delivery expectations.
  • Lead agile ceremonies and engineering planning, remove blockers, and mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and coaching.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Technical Lead Engineer delivering data engineering or integration platforms in a cloud environment.
  • Strong hands-on experience building production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestrating them with Airflow.
  • Solid experience with Google Cloud Platform data services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Dataflow, or container platforms such as GKE and Cloud Run.
  • Experience with Google Cloud IAM, networking, secrets management, and environment separation.
  • Strong software engineering foundations in Python, APIs, configuration management, architecture design, testing strategy, and performance tuning.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working across company offices, client sites, and home, with no option to work from home 100% of the time.
  • Wellbeing support including Mental Health Champions and wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
  • Training and development opportunities including think tanks, hackathons, access to 250,000 courses, and external certifications.
  • Inclusive recruitment support through Capgemini’s Disability Confident Employer Level 2 commitment.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowAWSGoogle BigQueryGoogle Cloud PlatformPython

Categories

Data Engineering
Capgemini

About Capgemini

10,000+ employees

Capgemini is a global IT services and consulting firm that delivers strategy, cloud, AI, software engineering, and managed services to large enterprises and public-sector clients. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Paris, it is publicly traded on Euronext Paris and operates in 50+ countries. The group expanded its engineering capabilities by acquiring Altran in 2020, now operating as Capgemini Engineering.

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