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Manali Gawde

Data Engineer at JLR

Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom

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Role

Role Name

Senior Data Engineer

Company

Northstar Lending

Location(s)

London, Shoreditch

Work Mode

hybrid

Employment Type

full-time

Pay

£85,000 to £100,000 per year

Key Requirements

Skills

PythonAdvanced SQLdbtAirflowAWSData pipeline orchestrationData modeling

Tools

PythonSQLKafkaSnowflakedbtAirflowTerraformAWS

Candidate

Summary

Data Engineer with recent hands-on experience building Airflow-orchestrated ETL/ELT pipelines and GCP data architectures (BigQuery, Pub/Sub). Strong Python/SQL skills, DBT/Dataform experience, and exposure to CI/CD for data applications and MLOps.

Work History

  • Data Engineer at JLR

    Apr 2025 to present

  • Data Engineer at Sky

    Nov 2023 to Dec 2024

    Built Airflow-orchestrated ETL/ELT pipelines into Cloud Storage; implemented data quality checks on BigQuery using Dataform and DBT; designed CI/CD with Docker and GitLab; led migration of >10M records from on-prem PostgreSQL to GCP; created real-time streaming pipelines with Cloud Functions and Pub/Sub; produced reusable reporting for finance.

  • Data Engineer Intern at Sky

    Jan 2023 to Nov 2023

  • Data Analyst at Capita

    Oct 2022 to Dec 2022

    Maintained BI solutions using Excel, VBA and Tableau; developed Tableau visualisations to communicate business metrics to senior management.

  • Risk Analyst at Signifyd

    May 2022 to Sept 2022

    Worked on fraud-detection models and MLOps practices; extracted and analysed data from SQL Server using Looker and advanced SQL; monitored and optimised ML model performance in production.

  • SAP ABAP Consultant at VACS Technology Pvt. Ltd.

    Jun 2019 to Nov 2019

Education

  • Master's (Data Analytics and Business Intelligence) in Data Analytics / Business Intelligence, University of Leicester, 2022

Match Information

Match factors

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Matched(8)

  • Seniority
    Role: senior · Candidate: mid
  • Work mode
    Role: hybrid · Candidate accepts: remote, hybrid, on-site
  • Python
    Role requires Python. Candidate: Python in skills, Python 101 certification, and 'strong Python/SQL skills' in summary.
  • Advanced SQL
    Role requires Advanced SQL. Candidate: 'strong Python/SQL skills' and advanced SQL on SQL Server data at Signifyd.
  • dbt
    Role requires dbt. Candidate: DBT used for data quality checks on BigQuery at Sky, plus Dataform.
  • Airflow
    Role requires Airflow. Candidate: built Airflow-orchestrated ETL/ELT pipelines at Sky; Apache Airflow listed in tools.
  • Data pipeline orchestration
    Role requires pipeline orchestration. Candidate: Airflow-orchestrated ETL/ELT pipelines into Cloud Storage at Sky.
  • SQLNice to have
    Role requires SQL. Candidate: SQL in skills and tools, with advanced SQL work on SQL Server and BigQuery.

Gaps(0)

No proven gaps

For your judgment(11)

  • Location
    Role: London, Shoreditch · Candidate: Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom (90 mi)
  • Employment type
    Role: full-time · Candidate accepts: unknown
  • Pay
    Role: £85,000–£100,000 · Candidate: pay expectation not stated
  • AWS
    Role requires AWS. Candidate: career is GCP (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions); AWS never appears in the profile.
  • Data modeling
    Role requires data modeling. Candidate: no explicit data modeling in profile; dbt and BigQuery work only implies it.

Reasoning

Why it fits

  • Candidate has strong recent experience as a Data Engineer with relevant tools like Airflow, dbt, and Python.
  • Experience with GCP data architectures and real-time streaming pipelines aligns well with job's data pipeline and streaming requirements.
  • Candidate has worked on data quality checks and CI/CD, matching job's focus on data quality and pipeline orchestration.
  • Candidate's education in Data Analytics and Business Intelligence supports the technical requirements.
  • Candidate is located in the UK and open to hybrid and on-site work, which fits the job's London hybrid location.

Watch-outs

  • Candidate's seniority is mid-level, while the job requires senior level, indicating a potential gap in leadership and mentoring experience.
  • Candidate's experience is primarily with GCP, whereas the job requires AWS and tools like Snowflake and Kafka, which are not evidenced in candidate's profile.
  • Job requires 5 years relevant experience; candidate has about 2 years in data engineering roles, which may be insufficient.
  • The job is hybrid in London, while candidate is based in Wolverhampton; commuting or relocation willingness is not explicitly stated, reducing practical fit.

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