Senior Data Engineer

In this role you design, build and operate reusable, production-grade data platform capabilities to support Vodafone’s next-generation products and services. You work on shared ingestion, processing, storage, and serving components across markets, focused on reliability, scalability and security. You will contribute to platform design and coach peers while applying AI-assisted engineering practices to speed delivery. This is a chance to shape data foundations powering global customer propositions.

• Design, build, test and operate scalable ingestion, processing and serving services (batch, streaming, event-driven) using approved cloud capabilities
• Develop maintainable Python, SQL and infrastructure code with tests, version control, CD/CI, and clear docs
• Implement contracts, schema controls, quality gates, metadata, lineage, privacy, residency and access controls
• Own monitoring, runbooks, incident response, resilience, recovery, performance, capacity and cost for platform services
• Develop reusable templates and self-service capabilities; resolve complex incidents and contribute to platform design and estimation
• Coach peers and contribute to platform design and governance

• Substantial practical experience in Data Engineering or software engineering for production data services
• Strong Python and SQL and experience with ingestion, transformation and orchestration
• Production experience with BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Storage and Cloud Composer, or equivalent
• Experience with batch, streaming, event-driven and API integration patterns
• Practical use of AI-assisted engineering tools with appropriate review and security controls

• Collaboration and coaching
• Ability to communicate trade-offs and review peer work
• Cross-functional teamwork
• Python
• SQL
• Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer)