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# Google Cloud Platform Data Engineer

- **Company:** Kforce Inc.
- **Location:** Emeryville, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Data Analysis, JIRA, BigQuery, Cloud Database, Cloud Storage, Software Documentation, Data Transmissions, Information Engineering, Data Warehousing, Github, Python (Programming Language), Scrum Methodology, Standard Sql, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Systems Integration, Google Cloud, Virtual Agents, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a62eb1ac-a3c8-44f9-ab58-73db8c2ba8ce

## About the Role

Primary Technical Focus:

 * Prior experience using Agile in software engineering projects; Google Cloud Platform certifications are a plus
 * SQL
 * Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform)
 * BigQuery
 * Python
 * Airflow Composer / DAG development
 * GitHub
 * Jira
 * Agile methodology experience
 * Telecom nice to have

## Description

Kforce has a client that is seeking a Google Cloud Platform Data Engineer in Emeryville, CA for a 6 month contract with possible extensions. You will apply the skills and aptitude of an intermediate-level Data Engineer to build and maintain the Enterprise Data Warehouse for Reporting, Analytics, Agentic AI and Strategic AI use cases., * Use experience in and knowledge of Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Airflow Composer, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Functions, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Python, SQL and GitHub to build, modify and maintain Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

 * Collaborate as a member of a high-performing Agile data engineering scrum team
 * Collaborate with the EDW development team, the larger Data & Integrations engineering team, the Production Data Support team and internal business stakeholders to design and develop new functionality, and to troubleshoot then resolve reported problems
 * Use Google Gemini or Claude AI to generate detailed system documentation for new and modified data pipelines


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