Data Engineer (Google Cloud & Digital Analytics)

Job description

DATA ENGINEER — DIGITAL & ANALYTICS Freelance / Interim | Hybrid (Amsterdam) | Start December 2026 Our client is a well-known Dutch consumer brand with a substantial digital and e-commerce operation. Their digital department runs on Google Cloud, and the data platform underneath it drives marketing decisions, customer analytics and a growing set of machine learning use cases. You are joining to take ownership of that platform as the current engineer moves on. This is a broad remit held by one person. You own the data models, the pipelines and the architecture, and you work directly with marketing and digital stakeholders rather than through layers. You also bring other members of the team up the curve, so part of the job is teaching, not just building. About Riverflex Riverflex was founded in Amsterdam and London in 2018, eventually growing into a global team of consultants united by a mission to help courageous leaders drive transformative change. Today, we offer an integrated service through three service pillars: strategy and transformation consulting that Creates Change, talent services that Build Teams, and business-accelerating products that Augment Intelligence. For more information, visit www.riverflex.com . Responsibilities Data platform and pipelines You own and extend the data architecture on Google Cloud, with BigQuery at its centre. You build and maintain transformation models in dbt. You design, run and monitor orchestrated pipelines in Airflow. You write production Python for ingestion, transformation and automation. Digital and marketing analytics You own the GA4 implementation and its BigQuery export, turning raw event data into models the business can use. You manage Google Tag Manager, including tagging strategy, data layer design and governance. You work directly with marketing and digital teams to translate their questions into data they can act on. Machine learning You deploy, monitor and maintain machine learning models in production. You build the pipelines and infrastructure that keep those models fed and running. Enablement You mentor others in the team, raising the standard of engineering practice around you. You document what you build, so the platform does not depend on one person. Job requirements Strong commercial experience as a data engineer on Google Cloud Platform, with deep BigQuery knowledge. Hands-on expertise in dbt fo…