Data Platform Engineer – GCP & Airflow - #2159300

Thrive IT Systems


Date: 2 hours ago
City: Sheffield
Contract type: Contractor
Work schedule: Full day
Thrive IT Systems

Lead engineering delivery and technical strategy for a multitenant data integration platform Build and maintain production grade ETLELT pipelines orchestrated with Apache Airflow Utilize container platforms such as GKE and Cloud Run Apply strong software engineering skills in Python APIs configuration management testing and performance tuning Implement CICD pipelines release controls automated quality gates and InfrastructureasCode Terraform Design for reliability including retries idempotency dead letter patterns and operational resilience Translate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and align cross team efforts Work with GCP BigQuery for largescale data warehousing and analytics Architect cloud solutions using GCP Cloud Architecture best practices Desirable Experience with data lineage metadata management tools multitenant architectures data governance and vendor system integrations



Responsibilities



  • Own and drive the technical roadmap aligning engineering with business priorities and operational goals
  • Lead solution design for new integrations and platform enhancements ensuring maintainability and scalability
  • Establish and enforce engineering standards for coding testing documentation observability and security
  • Contribute hands-on to critical ETLs framework components design spikes and performance optimizations
  • Design and develop robust Airflow ETL pipelines with effective scheduling dependency management and error handling
  • Develop onboarding patterns for new source and vendor systems ensuring reliability and traceability
  • Drive data quality controls including validation reconciliation and exception handling
  • Enhance the multitenant architecture focusing on tenant isolation configuration metadata driven pipelines and runtime scalability
  • Optimize platform performance cost and reliability across environments with capacity planning and SLAs
  • Improve automation for build deployment and release processes with CICD best practices and self-service tooling
  • Implement comprehensive data lineage and observability with logging metrics ing and dashboards
  • Partner with stakeholders including product owners architects vendors and governance teams to manage requirements and delivery
  • Lead agile ceremonies remove blockers and maintain delivery momentum
  • Mentor engineers through reviews and coaching to foster continuous improvement and capability growth



Required Skills



  • Apache Airflow
  • ETL Concepts
  • GCP BigQuery
  • GCP Cloud Architecture
  • Python



Preferred Skills


Desirable Experience with data lineage metadata management tools multitenant architectures data governance and vendor system integrations

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