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Peaple Talent

Data Engineer

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Freelance

20-02-2026

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Skills

CI/CD Version Control Analytics and Reporting Architecture Analytics GCP

Job Specifications

GCP Data Engineer | Reading / Hybrid | 3-Month Contract | Data Consultancy | £450-£500

Employer: UK-based Data Consultancy delivering modern cloud solutions for enterprise clients

Contract: 3 months (with potential extension)

Location: Reading / Hybrid (UK-based)

Role Summary:

Join client projects to help enterprise organisations modernise their data platforms. Hands-on work with GCP to build and maintain scalable pipelines, warehouses, and transformation layers. Ideal for someone with strong GCP skills who enjoys delivering practical, high-quality solutions.

Responsibilities:

Build and optimise GCP data pipelines
Maintain BigQuery warehouses for analytics and reporting
Implement transformations using dbt
Orchestrate workflows with Airflow
Support platform migrations and modernisation
Apply engineering best practices, version control, and CI/CD
Document solutions and contribute to technical discussions
Collaborate with client teams on scalable solutions

Essential Experience:

Hands-on GCP data platform experience
Proficiency in BigQuery
dbt experience in enterprise environments
Airflow workflow orchestration
Exposure to a mix of industry backgrounds

Desirable Experience:

Consultancy or multi-client delivery experience
Input into platform design and architecture
Experience in regulated or complex environments

GCP Data Engineer | Reading / Hybrid | 3-Month Contract | Data Consultancy | £450-£500

About the Company

We are immersed in the Tech & Data ecosystem giving us invaluable insight into this exciting and everchanging market. Due to our deep network, we can unearth the best talent, rather than the 15% of active job seekers on the market. We make the recruitment process as simple and pain-free as possible for our clients. For recruitment to be truly successful it needs to be a business partnership. We invest time in getting to know the organisation that we are partnering with, spending time onsite with the hiring manager and team... Know more