Senior Data Engineer (GCP / Data platform)
About the opportunity
Our client is looking for a highly senior Data Engineer to strengthen its Data Platform team.
We are looking for someone capable of designing scalable cloud-native data solutions while mentoring engineers and driving best practices across the platform.
Your responsibilities
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a central role in the design, evolution, and optimization of the company's cloud data platform.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Data platform & architecture:
- Design and implement scalable Data Lake and Data Warehouse solutions on GCP
- Define end-to-end technical flows using:
- BigQuery
- Dataform
- Cloud Run
- Pub/Sub
- APIs
- Support migration initiatives from legacy systems to modern cloud-native GCP environments
- Design robust and scalable real-time data integration solutions
- Ensure platform scalability, maintainability, and reliability
- Data engineering & governance:
- Structure and historize data coming from multiple business domains
- Ensure data is reliable, accessible, and easily consumable for:
- Data Scientists
- Reporting teams
- Business stakeholders
- Define and maintain best practices around:
- Data Warehouse design
- IAM & privacy
- Data governance
- Cloud architecture standards
- Contribute to AI/ML deployment standards and platform evolution
- Leadership & collaboration:
- Coach and mentor Data Engineers on complex technical challenges
- Act as a senior technical reference point within the team
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners and business stakeholders
- Translate functional requirements into actionable technical solutions and work packages
- Promote engineering best practices and help raise the overall maturity level of the platform team
- FinOps & optimization:
- Optimize GCP resource usage and cloud costs
- Contribute to performance improvements and operational efficiency initiatives
Ideal profile
- 8+ years of experience in Data Engineering or similar roles
- Strong expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Solid experience within Data Warehouse environments
- Proven experience on legacy-to-cloud migration projects
- Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and scalable data platforms
- Good knowledge of real-time integration patterns and API-based architectures
- Exposure to AI-related initiatives is considered a strong plus
- Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable working in a highly autonomous and senior environment
- Fluent English required + French or Dutch
