Google Cloud Engineer

Job Description

Recruiter: Sowmya Reddy

Hiring Manager: Daniel Randell

Career Grade: E

Why this job matters

BT is currently transforming the way it manages and stores data by moving from its existing on-premises platform to Google Cloud. As part of this role, you will be contributing to the engineering effort that will deliver this large-scale transformation. You shall manage defining the standards and processes to allow delivery teams to be effective when deploying their solutions to Google Cloud.

The ARCAM squad manages our analytics application space within GCP using Argo CI/CD & Kubernetes. The squad is key for managing business workloads for a multitude of use-cases within the business. In the role you will be expected to have a deep technical understanding of GCP and Kubernetes, alongside key cloud concepts and tooling such as Terraform and Helm Charts.

What you’ll be doing

• Identifies opportunities to improve standards of practice within a project, continuously enhancing ways of working.
• Identifies opportunities to improve standards of practice with own work and peers’ outputs to contribute to identify and flag errors or potential issues.
• Delivers resolutions to problems that tend to be complex, cross-domain or of high impact to customers.
• Develops working relationships and communicates with a range of project stakeholders across teams to ensure actions completed, progress updated and impacts on other components managed.
• Creates and implements technical solutions for a domain or cross domains / portfolios of work within a specific technology area autonomously, understanding how solutions impact systems internally and/or externally and assessing impact of change.

The skills you’ll need to succeed

Functional Knowledge & Technical Skills

• Understanding of metadata management, data classification, and data lineage principles.
• Familiarity with data governance tools (Ab Initio, One Trust) for metadata management.
• Familiarity with AI model lifecycle management and governance tooling.
• Experience in tracking and reporting on AI & metadata compliance metrics and risk assessments.
• Basic Knowledge of AI & metadata regulations (GDPR, AI Act, DORA) and ethical AI principles.
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data, ensuring proper documentation and classification.

Business Expertise

• Awareness of data governance frameworks and their impact on business processes and risk management.
• Awareness of AI risks and governance challenges in enterprise environments.
• Awareness of AI & metadata governance policies and control requirements.
• Strong proficiency in Excel, Power BI, or SQL for metadata reporting and compliance tracking.

Leadership & Interpersonal Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across Data Governance, AI teams, Compliance, Legal, and Business Units.
• Good communication skills.

Our leadership standards

Looking in:
Leading inclusively and Safely
I inspire and build trust through self-awareness, honesty and integrity.
Owning outcomes
I take the right decisions that benefit the broader organisation.

Looking out:
Delivering for the customer
I execute brilliantly on clear priorities that add value to our customers and the wider business.
Commercially savvy
I demonstrate strong commercial focus, bringing an external perspective to decision-making.

Looking to the future:
Growth mindset
I experiment and identify opportunities for growth for both myself and the organisation.
Building for the future
I build diverse future-ready teams where all individuals can be at their best.

About us

BT Group was the world’s first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK’s most recognised and cherished brands – BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet, we have always played a critical role in creating the future, and we have reached an inflection point in the transformation of our business.

Over the next two years, we will complete the UK’s largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, we play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.

While we are through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, meaning we can reward our shareholders for their commitment and patience, we are absolutely focused on how we organise ourselves in the best way to serve our customers in the years to come. This includes radical simplification of systems, structures, and processes on a huge scale. Together with our application of AI and technology, we are on a path to creating the UK’s best telco, reimagining the customer experience and relationship with one of this country’s biggest infrastructure companies.

Change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. BT Group is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.

A FEW POINTS TO NOTE:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

DON'T MEET EVERY SINGLE REQUIREMENT?

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