Overview
Client is seeking a Data Engineer with strong analytics capabilities to own the full data lifecycle, from scalable pipeline development to polished Tableau dashboards. This role requires an architecture-first mindset, strong hands-on Python and SQL skills, and the ability to design reusable data models that support long-term platform scalability.
Core Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable data pipelines across Google Cloud Platform.
- Design reusable datasets, shared dimensions, and canonical data models that support multiple business use cases.
- Develop and optimize BigQuery datasets, including partitioning, clustering, materialized views, and cost optimization.
- Orchestrate production-grade data pipelines using Cloud Composer and Apache Airflow.
- Build and maintain Vertex AI Pipelines for ML workflows and large-scale data transformations.
- Write complex, performant SQL using window functions, CTEs, recursive queries, and query optimization techniques.
- Develop Python-based transformation scripts, pipeline logic, custom Airflow operators, API integrations, and automation tooling.
- Build production-quality Tableau dashboards connected to well-structured data layers.
- Translate business questions into clear, intuitive visualizations for non-technical stakeholders.
- Apply data architecture best practices around naming conventions, schema organization, documentation, and lifecycle management.
Essential Qualifications, Skills, and Technologies
- 5 years in a data engineering role, with meaningful GCP and BigQuery experience.
- Advanced Python and SQL proficiency as daily working languages.
- Hands-on experience with Google BigQuery, including dataset design and performance optimization.
- Experience with Cloud Composer and Apache Airflow for pipeline orchestration.
- Experience with GCS, Cloud Functions, and Jupyter notebooks.
- Experience designing scalable, reusable data models in an enterprise or multi-team environment.
- Familiarity with data architecture patterns such as Medallion, star schema, and Data Vault.
- Hands-on Tableau dashboard development experience.
- Understanding of how upstream data modeling decisions impact downstream dashboard performance.
- Experience with Git or GitLab for version control.
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices for data pipelines.
Preferred Skills or Experience
- Experience with Vertex AI Pipelines.
- Terraform experience.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code concepts.
- Portfolio or examples of Tableau dashboards built on well-structured data layers.
- Experience designing layered data architectures using bronze, silver, and gold patterns.
- Experience with Tableau performance tuning, published data sources, and Server or Cloud publishing workflows.
Work Details
- Remote role.
- US-based, all US time zones.
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