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Jesús Parra TorrijosJP

Jesús Parra Torrijos

Tech Lead - Cloud Data Engineer

£512/day
Londres, GB
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Jesús

I help engineering teams build, scale, and optimise production-grade data platforms without the overhead of technical debt or runaway cloud costs.

As a Lead Data Engineer and Tech Lead, my focus is on turning complex data requirements into reliable, maintainable infrastructure. Whether I am stepping in as a Senior Individual Contributor to architect complex pipelines or leading an engineering team to own technical decisions, I bridge the gap between high-level data strategy and hands-on execution.

What sets me apart:

- Production-Oriented Mindset: I don’t just stack tools or build pipelines that work "on paper." I design data platforms with built-in observability and strict data quality frameworks, ensuring systems fail transparently and scale predictably.

- Pragmatic Infrastructure Ownership: Having owned the entire data engineering lifecycle at Havas, I focus heavily on performance tuning and cost optimisation—ensuring your GCP spend remains lean while processing large-scale data.

- Technical Leadership + Depth: I split my time between mapping out architecture, writing clean pipeline code, and mentoring engineers, keeping teams aligned on engineering best practices.

Core Technical Scope & Deliverables:

- Cloud Architecture & Modern Data Stack: End-to-end data platform design heavily focused on the GCP ecosystem (BigQuery, Dataform, Cloud Workflows, Cloud Functions).

- Orchestration & ETL/ELT: Designing robust, scalable, and fully automated data pipelines.

- Data Ops & Governance: Implementing data quality checks, system observability tools, and cloud cost auditing.

I am currently based in Madrid and actively planning a relocation to London. If you are scaling a modern data team and need someone to own architecture, ship reliable pipelines, and drive engineering excellence, let’s connect.
  • Spanish

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Londres (up to 20km)

Experience

  • Havas Media Network, Global Data Team
    Tech Lead - Cloud Data Engineer
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    November 2025 - Today (8 months)
    Madrid, Spain
    • • Technical Leadership: Lead technical strategy for US marketing data operations, defining architecture patterns and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) via Terraform for enterprise GCP environments and translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
    • • Team Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and pair programming, improving code quality metrics and reducing production deployment errors by 25%.
    • • Architecture Design: Architected serverless data solutions using Google Cloud Workflows and BigQuery, significantly reducing technical debt in legacy ETL pipelines and accelerating feature availability for downstream Data Science models.
    Google Cloud Platform (GCP) DevOps SQL LLM Gitlab CI/CD
  • Havas Media Network, Global Data Team
    Cloud Data Engineer
    PRESS AND MEDIA
    October 2024 - October 2025 (1 year)
    Madrid, Spain
    • • Cost Optimization: Spearheaded cloud resource optimization initiatives, achieving 60% cost reduction through efficient parti tioning, clustering, and materialized view strategies.
    • • Pipeline Engineering: Developed 50+ data pipelines using Dataform and Cloud Functions, reducing query execution time by 65% enabling real-time marketing attribution for campaigns with $10M+ spend.
    • • Code Refactoring: Refactored legacy SQL/Python codebases to modularize logic, improving maintainability and testing coverage across the Global Data Team infrastructure.
    • • Data Reliability: Implemented automated data observability and quality checks, reducing data downtime and incidents by 60%.
    SQL Python Gitlab CI/CD Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Terraform
  • Quolutions
    Cloud Data Engineer | Data Scientist
    REAL ESTATE
    February 2024 - October 2024 (8 months)
    Madrid, Spain
    • • Cloud Architecture: Deployed enterprise Data Lake solutions on Azure Synapse Analytics, handling 800GB+ daily ingestion for Real Estate analytics.
    • • Machine Learning: Designed and operationalized 4+ predictive models (time series forecasting, classification) using Scikit Learn/XGBoost for market analysis, bridging the gap between raw data ingestion and business-facing predictive insights. Infrastructure Management: Maintained Azure Data Factory pipelines and Databricks clusters for enterprise clients across Real Estate and Financial sectors.
    Azure DevOps DevOps Azure Synapse Analytics Microsoft Fabric Machine learning

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Education

  • Bachelor's Degree in Physics
    Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
    2023
    Bachelor's Degree in Physics
  • Big Data Bootcamp
    The Valley Digital Business School
    2023
    Big Data Bootcamp

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