GCP Data Engineering Manager Naveera Tech, USA Remote Work

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Naveera Technology LLC is a trusted global engineering partner delivering Data Engineering Generative AI Application Development and IT Infrastructure solutions. With over 15 years of experience in IT services and consulting we help organizations transform raw data into actionable business value.

With a team of 100 employees and successful delivery of 3 global projects Naveera serves clients across multiple industries and geographies through agile delivery models and proven engineering practices.

From Digital Health and Financial Services to E-Commerce and Technology we support a diverse client base and back every engagement with proven frameworks low-attrition teams and scalable global delivery capabilities. At Naveera we empower organizations to turn challenges into opportunities data into insights and innovative ideas into enterprise-grade platforms.

Specialties
Data Engineering & Modern Data Stack Generative AI Solutions & Model Deployment Application Development (Web Mobile & Enterprise) Artificial Intelligence (Predictive Conversational Computer Vision) IT Infrastructure Services (Cloud & On-Prem) Security DR Cloud Transformation & Microservices DevOps API & Systems Integration Extended Technology Teams & Dedicated Delivery Real-Time Streaming & Analytics and BI & Data Warehousing

Job Title: Engineering Manager AWS to GCP Migration

Experience: 15 Years

Location: Remote (USA)

Primary Focus: AWS GCP Migration Data Engineering Data Architecture Engineering Leadership

Note: Preferrably we are looking for hands on experience as a Engineering manager in GCP Platform and if you are currently working as a Senior/Lead Data Engineer then your profile is not suitable for the current requirement.

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Engineering Manager with strong hands-on expertise in AWS and GCP Data Engineering to lead a large-scale AWS-to-GCP data platform migration.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience designing enterprise data platforms on AWS and migrating them to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The role requires a combination of technical architecture hands-on engineering migration leadership team management and stakeholder management.

The candidate should have strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3 Glue Redshift Athena Step Functions and AWS DMS along with strong GCP expertise across BigQuery Dataflow Pub/Sub Cloud Storage and Cloud Composer.

The Engineering Manager will work closely with US-based stakeholders architects engineers DevOps teams Data Science and BI teams to define the migration strategy and ensure successful execution.

Key Responsibilities

1. AWS to GCP Migration Leadership

Lead the end-to-end migration of enterprise data platforms from AWS to GCP.

Assess existing AWS architecture data pipelines workloads dependencies and operational processes.

Define the target-state GCP architecture and migration roadmap.

Develop migration strategies for:

Amazon S3 Google Cloud Storage

Amazon Redshift BigQuery

AWS Glue Dataflow / Dataproc / BigQuery

AWS Step Functions Cloud Composer / Workflows

AWS DMS GCP-native CDC solutions

Amazon Athena BigQuery

Identify opportunities to modernize AWS workloads rather than performing a simple lift-and-shift migration.

Define migration phases technical dependencies risks and rollback strategies.

Lead architecture reviews and technical design discussions.

2. GCP Data Platform Architecture

Architect and implement scalable enterprise data platforms on GCP.

Design Data Lake and Lakehouse architectures using GCS and BigQuery.

Define Bronze Silver and Gold/Atomic data layers.

Design scalable data ingestion transformation and consumption frameworks.

Establish standards for data modeling partitioning clustering and storage.

Design multi-tenant and multi-location data architectures.

Define schema-on-read and schema-on-write strategies.

3. AWS Data Platform Expertise

Analyze and optimize existing AWS data platforms before migration.

Work with:

Amazon S3

AWS Glue

AWS Glue Data Quality

Amazon Redshift / Redshift Serverless

Amazon Athena

AWS Step Functions

AWS DMS

AWS Lake Formation

Understand existing AWS ETL/ELT pipelines data models workloads and dependencies.

Identify equivalent or improved GCP services for each AWS workload.

Prepare technical mapping and migration plans between AWS and GCP services.

4. GCP Streaming & Real-Time Data Engineering

Architect real-time data pipelines using:

Google Pub/Sub

Dataflow / Apache Beam

BigQuery

Cloud Storage

Design high-volume event ingestion enrichment and transformation pipelines.

Implement event-driven architectures and appropriate delivery guarantees.

Optimize streaming pipelines for latency throughput and scalability.

Design BigQuery streaming ingestion patterns.

Implement monitoring logging and alerting for real-time workloads.

5. ETL / ELT & Data Processing

Design and implement scalable batch and real-time ETL/ELT pipelines.

Migrate AWS Glue-based pipelines to appropriate GCP services.

Develop transformation frameworks using:

Python

PySpark

SQL

Dataflow / Apache Beam

BigQuery

dbt

Design CDC pipelines and real-time ingestion patterns.

Build orchestration workflows using Cloud Composer / Airflow.

Optimize data processing jobs and query performance.

6. Data Modeling & BigQuery

Design enterprise data models for analytics and reporting.

Define dimensional normalized and denormalized data models.

Develop multi-tenant data structures.

Design BigQuery partitioning and clustering strategies.

Optimize BigQuery SQL and query execution.

Design data models supporting both real-time and batch workloads.

Work closely with BI and Analytics teams to create scalable consumption models.

7. Data Governance Security & Quality

Establish data governance and data quality standards across the GCP platform.

Implement automated data quality checks and validation frameworks.

Establish data lineage metadata and ownership standards.

Ensure appropriate security controls across all GCP data layers.

Implement:

IAM

Least-privilege access

Encryption

Service accounts

Network security

Data access policies

Work with governance and security teams to ensure compliance requirements are met.

Experience with Dataplex Data Catalog and data lineage is preferred.

8. DevOps Infrastructure & Automation

Lead infrastructure automation using Terraform.

Build repeatable and secure GCP infrastructure deployments.

Implement CI/CD pipelines for data engineering workloads.

Work with:

Terraform

Git

GitHub

Cloud Build

CI/CD pipelines

Automate data pipeline deployment testing and infrastructure provisioning.

Establish Dev QA UAT and Production deployment standards.

9. Performance & Cost Optimization

Lead performance optimization initiatives across GCP data workloads.

Optimize:

BigQuery query performance

Partitioning and clustering

Dataflow pipelines

Spark workloads

Cloud Storage

Streaming workloads

Analyze AWS workloads and determine the most cost-effective GCP architecture.

Develop cloud FinOps and cost optimization strategies.

Establish performance benchmarks and SLAs for critical workloads.

10. Engineering Management & Team Leadership

Lead and mentor a team of Data Engineers Senior Data Engineers and Technical Leads.

Provide technical direction and establish engineering standards.

Conduct architecture and code reviews.

Define technical roadmaps and engineering priorities.

Break complex migration requirements into actionable deliverables.

Track engineering progress risks dependencies and delivery milestones.

Promote best practices around coding testing CI/CD security and documentation.

Mentor engineers on GCP data architecture and modern data engineering practices.

11. Stakeholder & Client Management

Act as the primary technical point of contact for US-based stakeholders.

Work closely with Business Product Data Science BI and DevOps teams.

Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Present architecture decisions migration strategies and technical roadmaps.

Communicate technical risks dependencies timelines and trade-offs.

Collaborate with business teams to define operational and analytical KPIs.

• 15 years of experience in Data Engineering Data Architecture or Cloud Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS Data Engineering and Architecture.
• 5 years of hands-on GCP Data Engineering experience.
• Proven experience working on AWS-to-GCP migration projects.
• Strong experience designing enterprise Data Lake / Lakehouse platforms.
• Experience migrating AWS data workloads to GCP.
• Strong knowledge of AWS and GCP service mapping and cloud migration patterns.
• Expert-level SQL and strong Python/PySpark skills.
• Strong data modeling and data warehousing experience.
• Experience with Terraform and CI/CD.
• Experience managing and mentoring data engineering teams.
• Strong communication skills with experience working with US-based stakeholders.

Ability to assess AWS workloads define the GCP target architecture and lead the migration from strategy through production implementation.

Solution Architecture

Strong ability to translate complex business and technical requirements into scalable secure and cost-effective GCP architectures.

Engineering Leadership

Ability to manage mentor and technically guide Data Engineering teams while remaining hands-on with critical architecture and implementation decisions.

Data Architecture

Strong expertise in Data Lakehouse Data Warehouse Streaming Data Modeling and modern data engineering patterns.

Performance & Cost Engineering

Ability to optimize BigQuery Dataflow and Spark workloads while implementing cloud cost optimization strategies.

Data Governance & Security

Strong understanding of data quality lineage metadata IAM encryption access control and enterprise governance.

Stakeholder Management

Excellent communication skills with the ability to work directly with US-based business and technical stakeholders.

Required Technical Skills & Cloud Platforms

AWS Strong Existing Platform Experience

Amazon S3

AWS Glue

AWS Glue Data Quality

Amazon Redshift / Redshift Serverless

Amazon Athena

AWS Step Functions

AWS DMS

AWS Lake Formation

IAM

GCP Target Platform

BigQuery

Google Cloud Storage

Pub/Sub

Dataflow / Apache Beam

Cloud Composer / Airflow

Dataproc / Spark

Cloud Monitoring

Cloud Logging

Dataplex / Data Catalog

Data Engineering

Advanced Python

Expert-level SQL

Strong PySpark / Apache Spark

ETL/ELT

CDC

Batch and streaming data processing

Event-driven architecture

Data pipeline optimization

Data Architecture

Enterprise Data Lake / Lakehouse

Medallion Architecture

Data Modeling

Dimensional Modeling

Multi-tenant Data Modeling

Schema-on-Read / Schema-on-Write

Data Lineage

Metadata Management

Data Governance

Modern Data Stack

dbt

Apache Airflow

Terraform

Git / GitHub

Cloud Build

CI/CD

Data Quality Frameworks

OpenLineage is a plus

• Lead large-scale AWS-to-GCP cloud transformation initiatives.
• Work on enterprise Data Lakehouse and analytics modernization projects.
• Flexible remote work environment.
• Exposure to global enterprise customers.
• Collaborative innovation-driven engineering culture.
• Continuous learning and certification opportunities.

Join Naveera Technology LLC and play a pivotal role in delivering enterprise-scale AWS-to-GCP cloud transformation programs. Lead the modernization of data platforms ETL pipelines and analytics ecosystems while driving innovation across cloud-native data engineering Data Lakehouse architectures and next-generation Business Intelligence solutions.