Principal/Lead Data Engineer

Job Description

Qodea (formally Appsbroker CTS) is the largest Google Cloud-only digital consultancy in Europe. Our name marks the culmination of a journey which began with the merger of Appsbroker and CTS in 2023. Combining the words ‘code’ and ‘idea’, our name embodies the essence of who we are and what we do; providing tried and trusted digital solutions, whilst helping our clients look to the future and innovate. We’re looking for bright, passionate people to join us at the vanguard, delivering the most ambitious Google Cloud projects across AI, security, martech, data, and Workspace.

As a purpose-driven, certified B Corp, we strive to be great to work with and great to work for. We’re lucky to have some fantastic household names as customers, and fantastic colleagues delivering the ideas, technologies, and impacts that matter.

With offices across Europe, you’ll be joining a dynamic team of talented but down-to-earth experts, with a presence across the UK, the Netherlands, Romania, and Belgium. 

By joining forces, both companies bring over 15 years of Google Cloud experience under one roof, with over 420+ Google certifications, a list of brilliant enterprise customers, incredibly talented people, and multiple industry awards - meaning we can be trusted to deliver.

Role Overview:

As a Principal Data Engineer for Qodea, you'll engage with enterprise-level organisations to offer a consultative view and direction on best practice data architecture using Google Cloud solutions. You'll play a key role in the technical delivery of complex and innovative data solutions for our customers across the Benelux region and the UK.

Exposure to a wide variety of modern data engineering services and tooling is a given and you will be expected to investigate the use of new technologies as they become available. You'll work alongside our market-leading engineers and architects to deliver complex projects and make valuable impacts for our customers.

Qodea is a dedicated Google Cloud Partner, which means that you'd be working on projects involving GCP services. Previous experience of GCP is not essential, but we'd expect you to have strong experience of one or more of the major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure or GCP).

This would be a primarily remote-based role, but if you live close to one of our offices and you'd prefer some office work then that's fine too. We also have a 'Work from Anywhere' policy giving you the option to work overseas for up to 3 months of the year.

If you have an interest in working on innovative projects with cutting edge technology using Google Cloud Platform, this job could be a great opportunity for you.

Responsibilities:

Lead client engagements and project delivery:

• Lead client engagements and team lead on client-facing delivery projects
• Consult, design, coordinate architecture to modernise infrastructure for performance, scalability, latency, and reliability
• Identify, scope, and participate in the design and delivery of cloud data platform solutions

Deliver highly scalable big data architecture solutions using Google Cloud Technology:

• Create and maintain appropriate standards and best practices around Google Cloud SQL, BigQuery, and other data technologies
• Design and execute a platform modernization approach for customers' data environments
• Document and share technical best practices/insights with engineering colleagues and the Data Engineering community
• Mentor and develop engineers within the Qodea Data Team and within our customers' engineering teams
• Act as the point of escalation with client-facing problems that need solving

We’re proud of our B Corp status. We ask that you are proactive in our drive towards social progress and positive impacts. Whether that’s getting involved in one of our community projects or simply buying local when travelling with the company. 

Requirements

Key Skills:

• Strong experience as a Senior / Principal Cloud Data Engineer, with a solid track record of migrating large volumes of of data through the use of cloud data services and modern tooling
• Experience working on projects within large enterprise organisations either as an internal resource or as a 3rd party consultant
• Experience in performing a technical leadership role on projects and contributing to technical decision making during in-flight projects.
• A track record of being involved in a wide range of projects with various tools and technologies, and solving a broad range of problems using your technical skills.
• Demonstrable experience of utilising strong communication and stakeholder management skills when engaging with customers
• Significant experience of coding in Python and Scala or Java
• Experience with big data processing tools such as Hadoop or Spark
• Cloud experience; GCP specifically in this case, including services such as Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, GCS, Secret Manager, Vertex AI etc.
• Experience with Terraform
• Prior experience in a customer-facing consultancy role would be highly desirable
• Experience in working with agile software engineering teams

Benefits

• Health Care package
• NN Assurance package (life and health)
• 28 days PTO as standard, plus a flexible annual leave policy and your birthday off
• 10 learning days per year
• Length of service awards
• Work from anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• Sabbatical leave for employees over 5 years service
• Flexible working culture
• Meal tickets
• Transportation costs
• Bookster Platform
• Company events - opportunities to meet colleagues you don’t see every day
• Regular opportunities for industry recognised training and certifications
• Opportunities to develop within a fast growing-tech business with ambitious growth and impact goals

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At Qodea, we look after each other in an environment where everyone can work together to achieve great things. We’re proud of our people-first culture that welcomes individuals from all backgrounds. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion creates a dynamic community, unlocks innovation and great ideas, and unites us around a common purpose - and we look for talented people to join us who share these values.