Build and maintain BigQuery data models using Dataform, following medallion architecture patterns (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
Contribute to Looker dashboards and LookML models, working alongside senior engineers and analysts
Write performant, well-structured SQL for large-scale transformations in BigQuery
Implement data quality checks using Dataform assertions and automated alerting
Support data observability across the warehouse — monitoring pipeline health, data freshness, and anomaly detection
Build and maintain robust Python data pipelines with testing, linting, and CI/CD integration
Work with orchestration tooling (Cloud Composer / Airflow) to schedule and monitor workflows
Develop familiarity with CDC concepts and event-driven ingestion patterns (Datastream, Pub/Sub)
Containerise workloads with Docker for deployment on Cloud Run or similar GCP services
Support Data Scientists in moving work from notebook to production pipeline
Contribute to feature pipelines and data preparation for ML workloads
Help bridge the gap between research prototypes and scalable, maintainable code

SQL proficiency — comfortable writing complex, performant queries against large datasets in BigQuery
Dataform experience — or strong dbt experience with willingness to work in Dataform; understanding of modular, version-controlled data transformation
Python with an engineering mindset — clean, tested, linted code; comfortable with Git and CI/CD workflows
GCP familiarity — hands-on experience with BigQuery is essential; broader GCP exposure (Cloud Storage, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Datastream) is a strong advantage
Orchestration experience — hands-on with Cloud Composer, Airflow, or a comparable tool
Data modelling fundamentals — dimensional modelling, Kimball principles, or medallion architecture patterns
Docker basics — able to containerise and deploy data workloads
Collaborative and communicative — able to translate business requirements into data models and work effectively with Analytics, Product, and Data Science stakeholders
Pragmatic approach to AI tooling — comfortable using AI-assisted development to improve productivity and code quality

Data Engineer

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