Job Description
- 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data platform, or data architecture roles (with 4+ years on Google Cloud Platform)
- Deep expertise in BigQuery architecture, performance tuning, cost optimization, and data modeling
- Strong understanding of modern data architecture patterns (lakehouse, medallion/bronze-silver-gold, data mesh—where applicable)
- Hands-on knowledge of GCP data services including: Cloud Storage, Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataproc (Spark), Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Dataform, Cloud Functions/Cloud Run
- Experience with data governance and metadata management using Dataplex and/or Data Catalog (or equivalent tools)
- Strong skills in SQL and one programming language (Python preferred)
- Proficiency with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) for GCP deployments
- Solid stakeholder management skills; ability to translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures
- Google Cloud certifications preferred (e.g., Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Data Engineer