GCP Data Engineer (Contractor)

Mid-Senior | Ref: ACC-CC-GCP01UK Contract
LocationUK-based. Fully remote
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Engagement Details

  • Bullet pointEngagement: Confidential Client — Azure to GCP Data Platform Migration
  • Bullet pointStart Date: 10 June 2026
  • Bullet pointDuration: Fixed-term to 30 September 2026
  • Bullet pointAvailability: Full-time, 5 days per week
  • Bullet pointLocation: UK-based. Fully remote
  • Bullet pointApplicants must have the right to work in the UK and be located in the UK

The Role

We are looking for a strong GCP Data Engineer contractor to join an Adroit delivery team on a live cloud migration. You will work alongside our Principal Platform Engineer to migrate nine source system ingestion pipelines from Azure Logic Apps and ADF to CloudRun and Cloud Composer. You will be operating within a Group-governed GCP environment with real constraints on what you can provision directly. We need someone who can work at pace, communicate blockers early, and produce production-quality pipelines.

Context

This is a delivery role on a time-boxed engagement with a fixed go-live date. You will not be working in a sandbox. The pipelines you build will serve a live business reporting estate. There is no room for slow starts or sloppy handover. If you are a contractor who takes pride in clean, well-documented work and has done this kind of migration before, we want to hear from you.

What You Will Be Doing

  • Bullet pointMigrate ingestion pipelines for nine source systems from Azure Logic Apps and ADF to CloudRun and Cloud Composer
  • Bullet pointSupport raw file storage migration from ADLS Gen2 to GCS, maintaining source-partitioned folder structure
  • Bullet pointWork with the Principal Platform Engineer on Cloud Composer DAG design and with the Group Data Engineer Team for deployment access
  • Bullet pointAssist with monitoring, logging, and alerting configuration via Google Cloud Operations Suite
  • Bullet pointSupport Bronze layer population in BigQuery, raw source data, append-only with no transformation
  • Bullet pointProduce pipeline runbooks for each source system ingestion as part of the engagement deliverable set
  • Bullet pointProvide second-line support cover for pipeline issues during a planned resource leave period (July to October)

What We Need From You

  • Bullet pointSolid GCP data engineering experience, including CloudRun, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, and Cloud Composer (Airflow)
  • Bullet pointExperience building and debugging data ingestion pipelines for multiple source systems in production
  • Bullet pointAbility to work within a Group-governed multi-project GCP organisation
  • Bullet pointFamiliarity with GCS bucket management and source-partitioned storage patterns
  • Bullet pointAbility to write and review Airflow DAGs for pipeline orchestration
  • Bullet pointStrong communication skills and ability to work with platform teams you do not control to unblock dependencies
  • Bullet pointApplicants must have the right to work in the UK and be located in the UK

Beneficial But Not Essential

  • Bullet pointPrior Azure to GCP migration experience, specifically ADF and Logic Apps to CloudRun and Composer equivalents
  • Bullet pointGoogle Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification
  • Bullet pointExperience with API-based ingestion using Apigee or similar tooling
  • Bullet pointFamiliarity with Dataform for downstream transformation awareness

Why Adroit Cloud Consulting?

Adroit Cloud Consulting is a cloud and AI engineering firm built by practitioners, not theorists. We design, build, and embed secure cloud and AI systems for businesses scaling fast and solving complex problems across financial services, real estate, SaaS, and the public sector.

We work side by side with our clients. No offshore hand-offs, no bloated delivery layers. Just senior engineers who take ownership, move quickly, and leave platforms in better shape than they found them.

Our core capabilities span GCP, AWS, Azure, data platform engineering, AI and ML systems, DevSecOps, and cloud security. We are a Google Cloud Partner with ISO 27001 certification.

We do not manage the gap between strategy and delivery. We close it.

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