Lead GCP Data Engineer

About the role

Lead GCP Data Engineer

Responsibilities

• Hands-on experience with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), deployment automation, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Strong knowledge of cloud governance, data security, audit logging, exception handling, compliance frameworks, and cloud best practices.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, DevOps teams, Engineering teams, PMO, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable enterprise cloud solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience presenting architecture options, technical recommendations, cost-benefit analysis, and risk assessments to leadership and technical teams.

Requirements

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including BigQuery, AlloyDB, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, IAM, VPC, Networking, and Cloud Security.
• Terraform, CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps), Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Qualifications

• 10+ Years of experience in Cloud Data Engineer (GCP).
• Expertise in designing scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud architectures, integration patterns, microservices, and event-driven solutions.
• Experience in solution architecture, technical design documentation, architecture reviews (ARB), technical debt assessment, cost optimization, and performance tuning.

Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Expertise in designing scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud architectures.
• Proven ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Benefits

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

Pay

Competitive compensation package based on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

General Shift Timing (Support Offshore & Onsite Teams)

Location

USA (East Coast Preferred)