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With our strategic partner Accenture, we work alongside our Vodafone customers, other Telco and tech companies to drive transformation, meet the challenges of our industry and ensure we stay relevant and resilient. This partnership is a unique, industry-first model which brings together the best of in-house and 3rd party capability.\nWe work with customers across 28 countries from 10 VOIS locations: Albania, Egypt, Hungary, India, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK, Germany, Ireland, and with a network of teams in Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, and Portugal.\n#VOIS #BeUnrivalled #CreateTheFuture\nAbout this role:\nWe design, build and operate the digital and technology capabilities that power Vodafone's next-generation products and services. We provide the cloud-native engineering foundations, reusable platform capabilities, APIs, integrations and secure digital services that enable rapid, scalable delivery across multiple customer journeys, propositions and markets.\nThe team provides trusted data foundations, reusable platform capabilities, data products, insight and governed AI that enable scalable customer propositions and reliable operations across markets and partners.\nOur teams use AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery speed and quality while maintaining clear human accountability, security, privacy, traceability and production discipline.\nThe Senior Data Engineer (Data Platform) designs, builds and operates reusable, production-grade platform capabilities. The role focuses on shared ingestion, processing, storage, orchestration and serving services for authorised consumers. The role applies cross-domain architecture and platform standards, owns assigned services in production and coaches others without formal people-management or cross-domain architecture accountability\nGiven the responsibilities outlined above, the role includes: \nBuilding and operating reusable platform pipelines and services. \nOwning production readiness for assigned components. \nImproving self-service, onboarding, reliability and cost efficiency. \nCoaching peers and contributing to platform design. \nWhat you’ll do\nDesign, build, test and operate reusable batch, streaming and event-driven ingestion, processing and serving services using approved cloud capabilities.\n\nDevelop maintainable Python, SQL and infrastructure code with automated tests, version control, continuous delivery and clear documentation.\n\nImplement shared contracts, schema controls, quality gates, metadata, lineage, privacy, residency and access controls.\n\nOwn monitoring, runbooks, incident response, resilience, recovery, performance, capacity and cost for assigned platform services.\n\nDevelop reusable templates and self-service capabilities, resolve complex incidents and contribute to platform design, estimation and peer coaching\n\nWho you are\nCore competencies, knowledge and experience:\nProduction Data Engineering - Strong delivery and operation of complex shared data services.\nCloud Engineering - Strong Python, SQL, distributed processing and Google Cloud Platform or equivalent experience.\nReliability Engineering - Strong use of CI/CD, testing, infrastructure as code, monitoring, incident management and recovery.\nData Controls - Good knowledge of contracts, schemas, quality, metadata, lineage, privacy, security and multi-tenant access.\nCollaboration and Coaching - Ability to communicate trade-offs, review peer work and support other engineers.\nMust have technical / professional qualifications:\nSubstantial practical experience in Data Engineering or software engineering for production data services.\nStrong Python and SQ L and experience with ingestion, transformation and orchestration.\nProduction experience with BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Storage and Cloud Composer, or equivalent.\nExperience with batch, streaming, event-driven and API integration patterns.\nPractical use of AI-assisted engineering tools with appropriate review and security controls.\nNot a perfect fit?\nWorried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? 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