Principal Data Engineer / Data Architect

The purpose of this role is to engage with enterprise-level organisations, offering 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 a wide array of clients across the Benelux region and the UK.

Exposure to a wide variety of technologies and software is a given and you will be expected to investigate the use of new technologies as they become available.

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.

Previous experience of GCP is not a requirement, experience of one of the AWS, Azure or GCP would be sufficient.

Responsibilities:

The purpose of this role is to engage with enterprise-level organisations, offering a consultative view and direction on best practice Data Architecture using Google Cloud solutions. The key areas of responsibility for a Data Architect include:

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
• Create visualisations, dashboards, and MIS reports
• Document and share technical best practices/insights with engineering colleagues and the architect community
• Mentor and develop architects and engineers within the Data team
• Act as the point of escalation for architects and engineers with client-facing problems that need solving

Requirements

• Strong experience as a Data Architect
• Knowledge of modern SQL including advanced queries such as triggers, stored procedures, views, joins, and subqueries
• Hands-on experience with RDBMS such as SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL
• The ability to create and interpret solution designs using UML/ERD diagrams
• Experience in optimising performance and monitoring of hybrid on-premise and cloud data warehouse solutions
• Familiar with common enterprise data governance standards and requirements (e.g. ISO27001 data protection, PII, PCI and Role Based access to data)
• Cloud experience; GCP or AWS preferred
• Experience in working with agile software engineering teams

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Private healthcare scheme
• Company pension
• Death in Service - 4x annual salary
• Flexible working culture
• Company events - opportunities to meet colleagues you don’t see every day
• Regular opportunities for industry recognised training and certifications
• Learning and development opportunities
• Opportunities to develop within a fast growing-tech business with ambitious growth and impact goals

Location:

This role can be either fully remote or hybrid based depending on your preference. We have offices in London, Manchester, Swindon and Edinburgh in the UK. You can choose to work from any of these office locations as often as you like. There is no mandatory office working, but you might be expected to travel to offices or customer sites for specific meetings or events.

Our Culture:

CTS and Appsbroker have agreed a strategic merger, joining forces to become the largest Google Cloud-only digital consultancy in Europe. 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.

Our culture and values are really important to us. We invest strongly in our people, and our culture is down-to-earth, approachable, energetic, bright, and helpful.

In uniting our team of over 400 best-in-class experts, we now have a fantastic opportunity to build on our collective heritage and grow an even better company, with an even more dynamic, creative, and diverse culture from which to learn from one another and serve our customers. We want ambitious people to join us who can help us with this mission.

As part of our values, we believe in business with a positive impact, and we’re mindful of the way our company connects with the world around it. We’re a certified B Corporation and our commitment to sustainability shapes what we do and how we do it - from the way we work with our customers to how we nurture and develop our talented community.