Data Engineer (GCP)

Role: GCP DATA ENGINEERING London/Sheffield, UK Contract role Please see the JD below: • From solution architecture point of view, own and evolve enterprise observability platform (Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Tempo, OpenTelemetry) deployed across on-prem and GCP • Drive platform scale-out strategy based on onboarding growth, data volumes, and regional expansion • Lead rollout into new geographies (GCP/on-prem), ensuring consistency, resilience, and compliance • Enable internal client onboarding and adoption, tailoring observability patterns to application and data requirements • Translate client-specific needs into standardised yet flexible observability architectures • Define and enforce multi-tenant architecture, isolation, RBAC, and governance models • Establish reusable onboarding frameworks, templates, and automation for tenant provisioning • Drive application and data observability adoption (instrumentation patterns, OTEL standards, pipeline observability) • Work closely with platform, and engineering teams to ensure scalable ingestion, storage, and query performance • Optimise platform for cost, performance, and operational efficiency as adoption increases • Act as a hands-on architect – capable of troubleshooting, tuning pipelines, and extending platform capabilities • Create and maintain standard architecture designs, reference implementations, and client-facing service documentation • Provide technical leadership and advisory across onboarding, architecture reviews, and observability maturity journeys • Ensure global consistency with local flexibility across regions, platforms, and business units • Distilling AI driven Roadmap and architecture • Business and commercial acumen to showcase ROI of the solution.