Representing the Ford Credit Europe Data Engineering Organization as a Senior Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Data Engineer, specialising in migration and transformation, you will lead initiatives as part of a global team to migrate complex data systems to the Google Cloud Platform. This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing data pipelines, ensuring data integrity during migration, and leveraging GCP services to enhance data transformation processes for scalability and efficiency.

This role is for an experienced GCP Data Engineer who can build cloud analytics platforms to meet expanding business requirements with speed and quality using lean Agile practices. You will work on analysing and manipulating large datasets supporting the enterprise by activating data assets to support Enabling Platforms and Analytics in the GCP. You will be responsible for designing the transformation and modernization on GCP, as well as landing data from source applications to GCP. Experience with large scale solutions and operationalising of data warehouses, data lakes and analytics platforms on Google Cloud Platform or other cloud environment is a must. We are looking for candidates who have a broad set of technology skills across these areas and who can demonstrate an ability to design right solutions with appropriate combination of GCP and 3rd party technologies for deploying on the Google Cloud Platform.

The key deliverables include Data Platform migration and modernisation from Teradata to GCP, to enable a modern technical solution that can, not only handle existing products and services, but also provides leading edge digital data product capability, along with operational efficiency, with the tools to manage the business day-to-day to grow and innovate into the future.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Lead technical Data Engineering team in Europe, working closely with Data business partners to help them transition from legacy platform to GCP.

• Responsible for code reviews and data certification with the external vendors converting the legacy code

• This role will work closely with teams in US and India to ensure robust, integrated migration aligned with Global Data Engineering patterns and standards

• Design and deploying data pipelines with automated data lineage.

• Develop, reusable Data Engineering patterns

• Design and build production data engineering solutions to deliver pipeline patterns using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services: BigQuery, DataFlow, Pub/Sub, BigTable, Data Fusion, DataProc, Cloud Composer, Cloud SQL, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, and App Engine

• Ensure the timely migration of FCE Data to GCP to enable Teradata platform decommissioning by end 2025 with a strong focus on ensuring continued, robust, and accurate Regulatory Reporting capability

• Responsible for parallel testing strategy and execution between Teradata and GCP

• Responsible for end-user and downstream consumption switch over from Teradata to GCP

Position Opportunities:

The Senior Data Engineer role within FCE Data Engineering supports the following opportunities for successful individuals:

• Key player in a high priority program to unlock the potential of Data Engineering Products and Services & secure operational resilience for Ford Credit Europe

• Explore and implement leading edge technologies, tooling and software development best practices

• Experience of leading specific business and technical strategies, working with senior Stakeholders including FCE Regulatory Reporting and FCE Data Management Services as the core customers

• Experience of managing data warehousing and product delivery within a financially regulated environment

• Experience of collaborative development practises within an open-plan, team-designed environment

• Experience of working with third party suppliers / supplier management

• Continued personal and professional development with support and encouragement for further certification

Essential:

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a focus on data warehousing and ETL development (including data modelling, ETL processes, and data warehousing principles).

• 5+ years of SQL development experience

• 3+ years of Cloud experience (GCP preferred) with solutions designed and implemented at production scale

• Strong understanding of key GCP services, especially those related to data processing (Batch/Real Time) leveraging Terraform, BigQuery, Dataflow, DataFusion, Dataproc, Cloud Build, AirFlow, and Pub/Sub, alongside and storage including Cloud Storage, Bigtable, Cloud Spanner

• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to design and optimize complex data pipelines

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, capable of working effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders as part of a large global and diverse team

• Experience developing with micro service architecture from container orchestration framework

• Designing pipelines and architectures for data processing

• Strong evidence of self-motivation to continuously develop own engineering skills and those of the team

• Proven record of working autonomously in areas of high ambiguity, without day-to-day supervisory support

• Evidence of a proactive mindset to problem solving and willingness to take the initiative

• Strong prioritisation, co-ordination, organisational and communication skills, and a proven ability to balance workload and competing demands to meet deadlines

• Minimum 2.2 degree or international equivalent (for current employees, where supported, an exception may be applied), ideally in in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field

Desired:

• Professional Certification in GCP (e.g., Professional Data Engineer).

• Data engineering or development experience gained in a regulated, financial environment

• Experience with Teradata to GCP migrations is a plus.

• Strong expertise in SQL and experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, and/or Apache Beam

• Experience working with and managing Senior Stakeholder expectations and delivering against a strategic road map within a product organisation

• Experience of coaching and mentoring Data Engineers

• Experience with data security, governance, and compliance best practices in the cloud.

• Knowledge of additional cloud services and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).

• Experience in building solution architecture, provision infrastructure, secure and reliable data-centric services and application in GCP

• An understanding of current architecture standards and digital platform services strategy

Additional Information:

The role is based in Dunton, UK with allowance of hybrid working.

Ford is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of gender, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnic origin, colour, nationality, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, religion/belief, gender reassignment and gender identity, age and those with caring responsibilities.

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Requisition ID : 29604