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# Lead Cloud Data & AI Engineer / Solutions Architect (Google Cloud Platform)

- **Company:** Talent Vista Inc.
- **Location:** Reston, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, BigQuery, Cloud Computing, Databases, Distributed Data Store, Data Flow Control, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Machine Learning, Oracle (Applications), Performance Tuning, Tensorflow, Cloudera, Google Cloud, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Apache Spark, Pyspark, Machine Learning Operations, Serverless Computing, Apache Beam
- **Published:** September 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/5e2c378b-088a-47a0-84eb-614324ace708

## About the Role

* Expert-level Google Cloud Platform Data Stack: BigQuery (Dremel, IAM, architecture), Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataproc (Serverless Spark / PySpark), Cloud Composer (Airflow), Pub/Sub, and dbt.
 * 10+ years in relational/distributed databases (PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, Oracle, CloudSQL) with performance tuning, replication, and migration experience.

 2. Applied AI & MLOps:
 * Experience developing, deploying, and operationalizing ML models & LLM pipelines (Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, MLOps tooling).

 3. Public Sector / Security Standards:
 * Familiarity with US Public Sector data compliance (e.g., DoD IL5/IL6 environments).
 * Excellent stakeholder-facing advisory, architecture consulting, and workshop delivery skills.

 4. Preferred Credentials:
 * Google Cloud Platform Professional Certifications (Data Engineer, ML Engineer, Cloud Architect, Database Engineer).



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