Details:
- Salary: £575 - 600 - Day
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: South Yorkshire
- Date: 19 hours ago
Description:
The Role: Technical Lead – Multi-tenant Data Integration Platform - GCP
Location: Sheffield, UK
Position Type: Contract Inside IR35
Remote work option Available: 2-3 Days Onsite in a week
Job Description:
Required experience & skills
* Proven experience as a Technical Lead / Lead Engineer delivering data engineering or integration platforms in cloud environments.
* Strong hands-on experience building production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration with Apache Airflow.
* Solid experience on Google Cloud Platform, such as:
* Data services (e.g., BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Dataflow) and/or container platforms (e.g., GKE, Cloud Run)
* IAM, networking, secrets management, and environment separation
* Strong software engineering foundations: Python, APIs, configuration management, testing strategy, and performance tuning.
* CI/CD expertise (pipeline tooling, release controls, automated quality gates) and Infrastructure-as-Code experience (e.g., Terraform).
* Experience designing for reliability retries, idempotency, dead-letter patterns, backpressure handling, and operational resilience.
* Ability to translate complex technical topics for mixed audiences and drive alignment across teams.
Desirable:
* Experience implementing or integrating data lineage/metadata management tooling (e.g., Data Catalog-style metadata, OpenLineage, DataHub, etc.).
* Experience with multi-tenant platforms (tenant isolation models, metadata-driven frameworks).
* Knowledge of data governance concepts (data quality, auditability, retention, access controls).
* Experience integrating with external vendor systems and managing vendor technical dependencies