Lead Data Engineer
Core
Provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering for scalable, resilient data platforms and pipelines that underpin Gymshark's data-driven business.
Role type
Senior IC Lead Data Engineer
Builds
Scalable data pipelines, data models, and platform components on Google Cloud Platform
Domain
E-commerce / Retail data engineering on GCP
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer), Python, SQL, data modeling (dimensional, data vault), batch and streaming pipeline design, Dataform, CI/CD, Terraform, observability, mentoring
Preferred skills
DataProc (Spark), Looker, analytics engineering patterns (dbt, data contracts), data mesh architecture, GCP cost optimization, ML infrastructure enablement
Technologies
BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer, Dataform, Terraform, Python, SQL, Git, Looker
Responsibilities
Own technical design and architecture of data pipelines and models; set and enforce engineering standards; lead technical discovery and code reviews; resolve technical debt; evaluate emerging tools; mentor and coach engineers; partner on data governance and cross-functional delivery; maintain technical documentation
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities