Data Engineer

• • Contribute to backend software engineering and DevOps tasks related to the data platform.
• Design and build scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines using Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, and Google Cloud Platform Dataflow.
• Develop and maintain data models, schemas, and performance-optimized SQL queries in BigQuery.
• Build and manage data pipelines that feed AI/ML feature stores and forecasting models.
• Collaborate with AI Developers to ensure high-quality, low-latency data access for model training.
• Manage and optimize Cloud Composer Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and pipeline orchestration.
• Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and data lineage tracking solutions.
• Participate in data platform architecture discussions and contribute to documentation.

• 3+ years of experience for intermediate-level roles.
• 5+ years of experience for specialist-level roles.

Technical Skills:

• Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow for pipeline orchestration.
• Proficiency in Apache Spark for large-scale data processing.
• Strong SQL skills, including complex query optimization and BigQuery-specific capabilities.
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform) data services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Dataflow.
• A solid understanding of ETL/ELT patterns and data warehousing principles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Google Cloud Platform Professional Data Engineer certification.
• Experience supporting ML/AI data infrastructure, including feature engineering and managing training datasets.
• Familiarity with real-time data streaming technologies like Kafka or Flink.
• Experience with retail or other large-scale consumer data environments.

Work Authorization

Candidates must be eligible for W-2 employment. Sponsorship is not available for this position

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