Senior GCP Engineer

Role: Senior GCP Engineer / Dev Lead :: (Contract W2)

Location: Phoenix AZ

Experience Required: 5-7 Years

Job Description:

• We are looking for a strong Senior GCP Engineer / Dev Lead who can contribute to a highly visible and time-bound initiative. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working as an independent contributor while also guiding a small team when needed.
• The primary need for this role will be building data pipelines and integration services on GCP.
• However we are specifically looking for someone who also has hands-on experience building and supporting microservices on GCP and not someone who has worked only as a pure pipeline engineer.
• This role will involve developing services that consume data from Kafka and publish to Pub/Sub so practical experience with microservices architecture event-driven systems and distributed application development is important.

Key skills we are looking for:

• Strong GCP experience
• Experience with Kafka and Pub/Sub integrations
• Working experience with Java-based microservices
• Spark / Dataproc experience
• Experience designing scalable and resilient distributed systems
• Nice to have:
• Java Vert.x experience
• Python development experience
• Prior AMEX LUMI experience
• LUMI experience would be a significant advantage as we are working against aggressive timelines and are looking to minimize onboarding and upskilling time for both the incoming resource and the existing engineering team.
• In addition to technical skills we are specifically looking for someone who can operate independently and proactively. The candidate should be comfortable engaging directly with platform/framework teams to resolve technical blockers drive follow-ups and navigate dependencies without requiring constant guidance from our team. Strong ownership communication and problem-solving skills are extremely important for this role.