Job Title: Principal GCP Data Engineer

Work Location: Atlanta, GA -- Remote

Duration: 6-month contract

What We Are Looking For:

Responsibilities:

• As a senior/principal engineer, you will be responsible for ideation, architecture, design and development of a new enterprise data platform. You will collaborate with other cloud and security architects to ensure seamless alignment within our overarching technology strategy.
• Architect and design core components with a microservices architecture, abstracting platform, and infrastructure intricacies.
• Create and maintain essential data platform SDKs and libraries, adhering to industry best practices.
• Design and develop connector frameworks and modern connectors to source data from disparate systems both on-prem and cloud.
• Design and optimize data storage, processing, and querying performance for large-scale datasets using industry best practices while keeping costs in check.
• Architect and design the best security patterns and practices.
• Design and develop data quality frameworks and processes to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and cross functional teams to design data models, database schemas and data storage solutions.
• Design and develop advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities on the data platform.
• Design and develop observability and data governance frameworks and practices.
• Stay up to date with the latest data engineering trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Drive the deployment and release cycles, ensuring a robust and scalable platform.

Requirements:

• 10+ (for senior) 15+ (for principal) of proven experience in modern cloud data engineering, broader data landscape experience and exposure and solid software engineering experience.
• Prior experience architecting and building successful enterprise scale data platforms in a green field environment is a must.
• Proficiency in building end-to-end data platforms and data services in GCP is a must.
• Proficiency in tools and technologies: BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Dataform, Dataflow, Dataproc, SQL, Python, Airflow, PubSub.
• Experience with Microservices architectures - Kubernetes, Docker and Cloud Run
• Experience building Symantec layers.
• Proficiency in architecting and designing and development experience with batch and real time streaming infrastructure and workloads.
• Solid experience with architecting and implementing metadata management including data catalogues, data lineage, data quality and data observability for big data workflows.
• Hands-on experience with GCP ecosystem and data lakehouse architectures.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data architecture, and data governance principles.
• Excellent experience with DataOps principles and test automation.
• Excellent experience with observability tooling: Grafana, Datadog.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Data Mesh architecture.
• Experience building Semantic layers for data platforms.
• Experience building scalable IoT architectures.