Data Engineer - GCP || Phoenix, AZ | New York City, NY | Sunrise, FL(Onsite - Local Candidates Only)

We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer with strong Google Cloud Platform (GCP) expertise to design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data-processing solutions. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Python, SQL, BigQuery, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Apache Airflow, and DAG development, along with a solid understanding of cloud-based data engineering and ETL/ELT architectures. Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows on GCP.
• Develop data-processing solutions using Python and SQL.
• Build and optimize data models, queries, and large-scale datasets in Google BigQuery.
• Develop distributed data-processing workloads using GCP Dataproc and related technologies.
• Build event-driven and real-time data pipelines using Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
• Develop, schedule, and maintain workflows using Apache Airflow and DAGs.
• Monitor data pipelines and troubleshoot performance, reliability, and data-quality issues.
• Optimize BigQuery queries and data-processing workloads for performance and cost.
• Integrate data from multiple structured and unstructured sources.
• Implement appropriate data validation, logging, monitoring, and error-handling mechanisms.
• Collaborate with data architects, analysts, application teams, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements.
• Follow engineering best practices for source control, testing, CI/CD, security, and production deployment.

• Strong hands-on Python development experience
• Advanced SQL skills
• Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• BigQuery data modeling, complex SQL, performance optimization, and large-scale data processing
• Dataproc experience developing and running distributed data-processing workloads
• Pub/Sub experience building event-driven or streaming data pipelines
• Apache Airflow
• Strong experience developing and maintaining DAGs
• ETL/ELT pipeline development
• Data integration and transformation
• Experience working with large-volume datasets
• Understanding of cloud security, IAM, monitoring, and production support

Preferred Skills

• Experience with PySpark / Apache Spark
• GCP Cloud Storage (GCS)
• Cloud Composer
• Dataflow
• CI/CD and automated deployment
• Git/GitHub
• Experience with APIs and data ingestion frameworks
• Data quality and observability tools

Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments