Lead Data Engineer (GCP)

Location: Hybrid role requiring attendance at least 3 days a week at GSIQ in Solihull, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a rapidly growing fitness and conditioning apparel company building products and experiences for a global community.

What you will do

• Own the technical design and architecture of scalable data pipelines, data models, and platform components.
• Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, observability, security, and documentation.
• Lead technical discovery, design sessions, code reviews, and architecture decisions.
• Build and improve batch and streaming data platforms using the GCP ecosystem.
• Embed data quality, access control, privacy, monitoring, and alerting into engineering work.
• Mentor Data Engineers, facilitate knowledge sharing, support hiring, and collaborate with Data Governance, Data Product, and wider Tech teams.

Requirements

• Strong data engineering experience in a senior or lead-level technical role.
• Deep expertise in GCP, including BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Composer.
• Advanced Python and SQL skills, including performant production code and rigorous code reviews.
• Experience designing complex scalable pipelines using batch and streaming or event-driven patterns.
• Strong data modelling experience with dimensional modelling, Data Vault, or equivalent, plus Dataform or similar SQL-based transformation tools.
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, testing frameworks, Terraform, data quality, observability, technical leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder management.

Nice to have

• DataProc and Spark experience for large-scale distributed processing.
• Looker or similar BI tooling and familiarity with analytics engineering practices.
• Experience with data contracts, semantic layers, data mesh, or data platform architecture patterns.
• GCP cost management, BigQuery cost optimisation, ML infrastructure, feature engineering, or data science platform enablement.
• Experience in e-commerce or retail data environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Performance-based bonus opportunity.
• Funded healthcare, contributory employer pension, life assurance, and enhanced family leave.
• 25 days of holiday, an additional birthday day, and bank holidays.
• Flexible benefits including an electric vehicle salary-sacrifice scheme, dental insurance, cycle-to-work scheme, technology scheme, and holiday trading.
• hirify.global employee discount, long-service awards, cashback and discounts, and wellbeing support.
• Office-specific benefits include gym membership, onsite lunch and coffee bars, and electric vehicle charging points.