AI GCP Data Engineer
Job Summary
We are looking for a hands-on Data Engineer with 3 years of experience building production-grade data pipelines cloud data platforms and automated data workflows. You are comfortable working across structured semi-structured and unstructured data; you understand the importance of data quality lineage security and cost optimization; and you are excited to build the data foundation required for modern AI ML and GenAI use cases.
Responsibilities
- Understand business analytics and AI use cases and translate them into scalable data engineering solutions.
- Design build and maintain reliable batch andstreamingdata pipelines for ingestion transformation validation and publishing.
- Develop curated reusable and well-documented data products that support BI dashboards analytics applications ML models and GenAI-enabled solutions.
- Implement strong data quality checks observability lineage metadata management and monitoring practices to improve trust in enterprise data assets.
- Write clean modular and well-tested code using Python SQL and modern data engineering frameworks.
- Use cloud-native technologies such asBigQuery DataflowDataproc Cloud Composer/AirflowDataform DBT Spark or equivalent tools to deliver resilient data solutions.
- Enable AI/ML and GenAI teams by preparing high-quality feature datasets vector-ready datasets document corpora and governed data access patterns.
- Partner with data scientists ML engineers product owners and business stakeholders to support experimentation model deployment and production analytics.
- ApplyDataOpspractices including CI/CD version control automated testing reusable templates release management and production support standards.
- Optimize pipeline performance storage usage compute cost and reliability across cloud-based data platforms.
- Support data governance privacy access control and compliance expectations for enterprise and AI-ready data assets.
- Stay current with advances in cloud data engineering AI data infrastructure orchestration data quality and GenAI-enabling technologies.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors orMasters degree in Computer Science Data Engineering Information Systems Engineering Statistics Mathematics or related technical field.
- 3 years of hands-on experience in data engineering ETL/ELT development data warehousing or cloud-based data platform delivery.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for data extraction transformation automation testing and production support.
- Experience designing and operating scalable pipelines on cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform AWS Azure or equivalent enterprise data ecosystems.
- Experience with modern data platforms and tools such asBigQuery Spark DataflowDataproc Airflow/Cloud ComposerDataform DBT or similar technologies.
- Good understanding of data modeling dimensional modeling partitioning clustering performance tuning and cost optimization.
- Working knowledge of data quality frameworks monitoring alerting metadata lineage and production support practices.
- Familiarity with Git CI/CD agile delivery code reviews documentation and reusable engineering standards.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical solutions clearly to engineering analytics and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5 years of experience delivering enterprise data engineering solutions in cloud-native environments.
- Experience building data products for AI/ML GenAI semantic search retrieval-augmented generation feature engineering or model monitoring use cases.
- Experience working with unstructured data such as documents logs text images transcripts or embeddings and preparing them for downstream AI consumption.
- Hands-on experience withDataOpsMLOpsenablement pipeline observability automated testing and production incident resolution.
- Experience migrating legacy workflows from Hadoop Alteryx oron-premiseplatforms to modern cloud services.
- Experience with APIs microservices event-driven architectures streaming data or real-time analytics.
- Cloud certifications in Google Cloud Platform AWS Azure or relevant data engineering technologies.
- Experience mentoring junior engineers defining engineering standards or contributing reusable platform accelerators.
Required Experience:
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