Ford Motor Company

Senior Data Engineer

24 April 2024
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£118000 - £190000 / year

Job Description

We’re seeking an experienced GCP Data Engineer who can build cloud analytics platform to meet ever expanding business requirements with speed and quality using lean Agile practices. You will work on analyzing and manipulating large datasets supporting the enterprise by activating data assets to support Enabling Platforms and Analytics in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will be responsible for designing the transformation and modernization on GCP, as well as landing data from source applications to GCP. Experience with large scale solution and operationalization of data warehouses, data lakes and analytics platforms on Google Cloud Platform or other cloud environment is a must. We are looking for candidates who have a broad set of technology skills across these areas and who can demonstrate an ability to design right solutions with appropriate combination of GCP and 3rd party technologies for deploying on Google Cloud Platform.
Primary Skills Required:
Experience in working in an implementation team from concept to operations, providing deep technical subject matter expertise for successful deployment. Implement methods for automation of all parts of the pipeline to minimize labor in development and production
Experience in analyzing complex data, organizing raw data and integrating massive datasets from multiple data sources to build subject areas and reusable data products
Experience in working with architects to evaluate and productionalize appropriate GCP tools for data ingestion, integration, presentation, and reporting
Experience in working with all stakeholders to formulate business problems as technical data requirement, identify and implement technical solutions while ensuring key business drivers are captured in collaboration with product management
Proficient in Machine Learning model architecture, data pipeline interaction and metrics interpretation.
This includes designing and deploying a pipeline with automated data lineage. Identify, develop, evaluate and summarize Proof of Concepts to prove out solutions. Test and compare competing solutions and report out a point of view on the best solution. Integration between GCP Data Catalog and Informatica EDC. Design and build production data engineering solutions to deliver pipeline patterns using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services: BigQuery, DataFlow, Pub/Sub, BigTable, Data Fusion, DataProc, Cloud Composer, Cloud SQL, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, and App Engine. 
Additional Skills Preferred:
Strong drive for results and ability to multi-task and work independently 
Self-starter with proven innovation skills 
Ability to communicate and work with cross-functional teams and all levels of management 
Demonstrated commitment to quality and project timing 
Demonstrated ability to document complex systems
Experience in creating and executing detailed test plans 

Work in collaborative environment including pairing and mobbing with other cross-functional engineers
Work on a small agile team to deliver working, tested software 
Work effectively with fellow data engineers, product owners, data champions and other technical experts 
Demonstrate technical knowledge/leadership skills and advocate for technical excellence
Develop exceptional Analytics data products using streaming, batch ingestion patterns in the Google Cloud Platform with solid Data warehouse principles  
Be the Subject Matter Expert in Data Engineering and GCP tool technologies

In-depth understanding of Google’s product technology (or other cloud platform) and underlying architectures 
6+ years of analytics application development experience required
6+ years of SQL development experience
3+ years of Cloud experience (GCP preferred) with solution designed and implemented at production scale
Experience working in GCP based Big Data deployments (Batch/Real-Time) leveraging Terraform, Big Query, Big Table, Google Cloud Storage, PubSub, Data Fusion, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Build, Airflow, Cloud Composer etc. 
3 + years professional development experience in Java or Python, and Apache Beam
Experience developing with micro service architecture from container orchestration framework
Extracting, Loading, Transforming, cleaning, and validating data 
Designing pipelines and architectures for data processing 
1+ year of designing and building Tekton pipelines