Senior Software Engineer (GCP) - Risk Data Lab

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer (GCP) - Risk Data Lab

LOCATION: London

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location

About this opportunity

Become a part of our digital transformation journey and help us modernise our data environment!

As a GCP Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for modernising our data stack by designing, developing and maintaining data pipelines, data solutions and data infrastructure on our Strategic Data Mesh Platform.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the efficient flow of processing of data while serving data products to a wide range of consumers to enhance insights and analysis. This is a hands-on role which requires delivery expertise using Google Cloud Platform data technologies, particularly focussing on Cloud Storage, Big Query, using containerisation (GKE) and additionally Data Build Tool (DBT) for pipeline processing.

• Design and develop scalable, reliable, efficient and cost-effective data pipelines and ELT processes on the GCP platform.

• GCP Professional Data Engineer certification essential

• Optimise and tune data pipelines for performance and reliability, ensuring efficient data processing and storage

• Ensure data solutions implemented minimise cloud FinOps costs

• Lead and mentor a team of senior and junior data engineers to deliver

• Data Products in our Data Mesh Platform. Present solutions and delivery progress to a wide variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Stay up to date with the latest cutting-edge trends and advancements in GCP data technologies and be able to recommend improvements to enhance and optimise data engineering processes.

• Experience with both SQL and Java programming languages

• Experience working in GCP, with particular focus on Cloud storage and Big Query; GCP Professional Data Engineer certification

• Experience delivering on data warehousing, data lake or data lakehouse concepts

• Experience working with containerisation (GKE), Terraform, CI/CD automated code integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins, Gitops and Harbour; In event streaming using Kafka, or Cloud Pub/Sub

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.