Technical Lead – Multi-tenant Data Integration Platform - GCP

The Role:

Technical Lead – Multi-tenant Data Integration Platform - GCP

Location:

Sheffield, UK

Position Type:

Contract Inside IR35

Remote work option Available:

2-3 Days Onsite in a week

Job Description:

Required experience & skills

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead / Lead Engineer delivering data engineering or integration platforms in cloud environments.
• Strong hands-on experience building production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration with Apache Airflow.
• Solid experience on Google Cloud Platform, such as:
  • Data services (e.g., BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Dataflow) and/or container platforms (e.g., GKE, Cloud Run)
  • IAM, networking, secrets management, and environment separation
• Strong software engineering foundations: Python, APIs, configuration management, testing strategy, and performance tuning.
• CI/CD expertise (pipeline tooling, release controls, automated quality gates) and Infrastructure-as-Code experience (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience designing for reliability retries, idempotency, dead-letter patterns, backpressure handling, and operational resilience.
• Ability to translate complex technical topics for mixed audiences and drive alignment across teams.

Desirable:

• Experience implementing or integrating data lineage/metadata management tooling (e.g., Data Catalog-style metadata, OpenLineage, DataHub, etc.).
• Experience with multi-tenant platforms (tenant isolation models, metadata-driven frameworks).
• Knowledge of data governance concepts (data quality, auditability, retention, access controls).
• Experience integrating with external vendor systems and managing vendor technical dependencies