Motorsports Senior Data Engineer

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Motorsports Senior Data Engineer, Edinburgh

Client:General Motors

Location:Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Job Category:Other

EU work permit required:Yes

Job Views:5Posted:04.08.2025Expiry Date:18.09.2025Job Description:

This role is onsite, reporting to Concord, NC on a full-time basis.

The Role

Seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer to join the Aero Innovation team within the Motorsports Aerodynamic Department. Responsibilities include developing complex data pipelines and data-processing systems to support aerodynamics development for motorsport and high-performance vehicles. You will design, develop, and optimize solutions to tackle technical challenges, contributing significantly to our competitiveness.

Joining GM Motorsports offers exposure to a competitive environment, opportunities to showcase talents, apply skills, drive innovation, and connect racing lessons to production vehicles. You will collaborate cross-functionally to shape the future of motorsports.

What You’ll Do

• Architect, design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
• Integrate data from various platforms and systems (on-prem and cloud databases, data lakes, APIs, vendors).
• Ensure data integrity, consistency, and quality through automated validation and monitoring.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize data workflows.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, Product Managers, Engineers, Aerodynamicists to translate requirements.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code following best practices.
• Prepare and present technical reports and presentations to stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
• 5+ years in data engineering or related fields.
• Proficiency in Python, C++, Java.
• Experience with Kafka, Flink, Databricks.
• Knowledge of distributed systems like SLURM, LSF.
• Experience with relational and non-relational databases (SQL, MongoDB).
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Effective communication skills.

This job may offer relocation benefits.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in related fields.
• Experience in motorsports industry.
• Knowledge of data governance, HPC, instrumentation, live streaming data pipelines, aerodynamic testing.

About GM

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Why Join Us

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Equal Opportunity

GM is committed to an inclusive workplace free of discrimination, fostering diversity and belonging. Employment decisions are made without regard to protected statuses. We encourage candidates to review role responsibilities and apply accordingly.

Accommodations

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