GCP Data Engineer

Dechen Consulting Group (DCG) is a rapidly expanding, innovative IT Professional Services and Management Consulting company with a track record of more than twenty-five years in delivering skilled professionals to our clients across diverse sectors.

We are currently seeking GCP Data Engineer for a W2 contract opportunity in Dearborn, MI. This role has the potential to extend over multiple years, with the chance to transition to a direct hire position with our client. We provide healthcare, vacation, relocation assistance, and visa sponsorship/transfer. This is a W2 position, not C2C. THIRD PARTIES NEED NOT APPLY. This role offers excellent prospects for career progression.

Position Description:
We're seeking an experienced GCP Data Engineer who can build cloud analytics platform to meet ever expanding business requirements with speed and quality using lean Agile practices. You will work on analyzing and manipulating large datasets supporting the enterprise by activating data assets to support Enabling Platforms and Analytics in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will be responsible for designing the transformation and modernization on GCP, as well as landing data from source applications to GCP. Experience with large scale solution and operationalization of data warehouses, data lakes and analytics platforms on Google Cloud Platform or other cloud environment is a must. We are looking for candidates who have a broad set of technology skills across these areas and who can demonstrate an ability to design right solutions with appropriate combination of GCP and 3rd party technologies for deploying on Google Cloud Platform. You will:
• Work in collaborative environment including pairing and mobbing with other cross-functional engineers
• Work on a small agile team to deliver working, tested software
• Work effectively with fellow data engineers, product owners, data champions and other technical experts
• Demonstrate technical knowledge/leadership skills and advocate for technical excellence
• Develop exceptional Analytics data products using streaming, batch ingestion patterns in the Google Cloud Platform with solid Data Warehouse principles
• Be the Subject Matter Expert in Data Engineering and GCP tool technologies

Skills Required:
- Experience in working in an implementation team from concept to operations, providing deep technical subject matter expertise for successful deployment. Implement methods for automation of all parts of the pipeline to minimize labor in development and production - Experience in analyzing complex data, organizing raw data and integrating massive datasets from multiple data sources to build subject areas and reusable data products - Experience in working with architects to evaluate and productionalize appropriate GCP tools for data ingestion, integration, presentation, and reporting - Experience in working with all stakeholders to formulate business problems as technical data requirement, identify and implement technical solutions while ensuring key business drivers are captured in collaboration with product management

Skills Preferred:
- Strong drive for results and ability to multi-task and work independently - Self-starter with proven innovation skills - Ability to communicate and work with cross-functional teams and all levels of management - Demonstrated commitment to quality and project timing - Demonstrated ability to document complex systems - Experience in creating and executing detailed test plans

Experience Required:
- In-depth understanding of Google's product technology (or other cloud platform) and underlying architectures - 5+ years of analytics application development experience required - 5+ years of SQL development experience - 3+ years of Cloud experience (GCP preferred) with solution designed and implemented at production scale - Experience working in GCP based Big Data deployments (Batch/Real-Time) leveraging Terraform, Big Query, Google Cloud Storage, PubSub, Dataflow, Dataproc, Airflow, etc. - 2 + years professional development experience in Java or Python, and Apache Beam - Extracting, Loading, Transforming, cleaning, and validating data - Designing pipelines and architectures for data processing - 1+ year of designing and building CI/CD pipelines

Experience Preferred:
- Experience building Machine Learning solutions using TensorFlow, BigQueryML, AutoML, Vertex AI - Experience in building solution architecture, provision infrastructure, secure and reliable data-centric services and application in GCP - Experience with DataPlex or Informatica EDC is preferred - Experience with development eco-system such as Git, Jenkins and CICD - Exceptional problem solving and communication skills - Experience in working with DBT/Dataform - Experience in working with Agile and Lean methodologies - Team player and attention to detail - Performance tuning experience

Education Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related scientific field

Education Preferred:

• GCP Professional Data Engineer Certified
• Master's degree in computer science or related field
• 2+ years mentoring engineers
• In-depth software engineering knowledge

Original Duration: 8 Months

Additional Information:
POSITION IS HYBRID BUT MAY CONSIDER REMOTE FOR THE RIGHT PERSON

We Are a People-Focused Company with a deep emphasis on family values and look forward to working with you.

Contact Manager:
Anna Mastrogiovanni