Jobs, fresher vacancy - Lead Data Engineer | TechBio Platform | GCP, BigQuery, Terraform, DBT • UK

Company: Cubiq Recruitment

UK

Lead Data EngineerLondon (2 days per week)£100,000 - £130,000 + equityAbout the roleI’m working with a scaling Techbio company that’s built its entire data platform on GCP and is now hiring a Lead Data Engineer to take real ownership of it.They handle genuinely sensitive, population-scale health data for pharma and biotech customers, with multi-terabyte datasets landing regularly from third parties and from Azure environments that need to be pulled safely into BigQuery. They’re looking for someone who can come in and make sense of that environment quickly… design ingestion patterns for huge data drops, think carefully about cost and observability, and work closely with internal medical teams to translate real-world questions into production systems.Big egos will not fit in here, they're a super smart, super humble team and the right person will be given freedom to take real ownership with the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI, custom build LLMs, infrastructure - whatever suits you best! Requirements:Has deep, hands-on experience running data platforms on GCPUses Python day-to-dayHas operated BigQuery at scale, and understands how queries behave across hundreds of terabytesHas built production systems with Airflow / Composer, DBT, Terraform and DockerIs comfortable with GKE, Cloud Run or Cloud FunctionsHas worked with streaming systems built on Dataflow / Apache BeamHas experience working in regulated environments and alongside security teams, ideally with exposure to ISO27001Can work closely with non-technical stakeholders and shape solutions rather than just execute tickets*Visa sponsorship is not available, so please only apply if you have full UK working rights*