Senior Data Engineer

Our client, is seeking an experienced, highly analytical Senior Data Engineer to join their rapidly growing Analytics team.

In this high-impact role, you will design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines to organize, transform, and manage billions of rows of data for advanced analytics and strategic decision-making. Leveraging Google BigQuery, Python, and deep domain expertise, you will translate complex business requirements into high-performance transformations, building clean tables and views for executive dashboards and self-service analytics. Operating in an empowering, data-driven environment, you will collaborate closely with business leaders and cross-functional technology squads to build automated, reliable data solutions that power customer experience initiatives and drive business value.

Duration: 4-Month Contract (with high potential for extension)





Advantages
Massive Data Scale Scope: Direct the design and optimization of enterprise-grade pipelines organizing, transforming, and optimizing billions of rows of data.

Modern GCP Cloud Ecosystem: Work extensively with top-tier cloud data technologies, including Google BigQuery, GCP Dataflow, Pub/Sub, PySpark, Airflow, and Vertex AI.

High-Visibility Business Impact: Deliver analytics-ready tables and self-service data models that directly inform strategic business decisions and executive dashboards.

Empowering & Collaborative Environment: Join a highly skilled, innovative analytics group focused on creative problem-solving and modern data engineering practices.



Responsibilities
Pipeline Engineering & Architecture: Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines and automated ETL/ELT processes for large-scale structured and unstructured datasets.

BigQuery & Analytics Optimization: Leverage Google BigQuery, Python, GBQ stored procedures, and advanced query optimization to build reliable data assets, aggregated scorecards, and dashboard tables.

Requirements Translation: Collaborate with business teams, data analysts, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex business needs into clear, efficient data transformations.

Data Quality & Governance: Implement automated data validation checks, monitoring, and governance frameworks to guarantee accuracy, performance, and data integrity across massive datasets.

Process Automation & Analytics Support: Automate manual data processes, prepare ad-hoc data extractions, and derive actionable insights from complex data streams (including clickstream data).

Technical Communication: Effectively articulate complex technical concepts and pipeline designs to business-oriented stakeholders, ensuring strategic alignment.



Qualifications
Professional Experience: 7+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, big data platform management, or a closely related field.

GCP & BigQuery Mastery: Hands-on experience working within the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ecosystem, with deep expertise in Google BigQuery, BigQuery stored procedures, and GCP data services.

Programming & SQL Depth: Advanced proficiency in Python and expert-level SQL skills with a track record of optimizing complex queries and building stored procedures.

Big Data & Orchestration: Proven experience with big data frameworks, workflow orchestration, and data warehousing platforms (PySpark, Apache Airflow, GCP Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Snowflake, or Redshift).

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline.

Preferred Assets & Certifications
Professional certifications such as Google Professional Data Engineer, AWS Certified Data Analytics / Big Data Specialty, or Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate.

Familiarity with advanced analytics tools and modern data lake formats (Vertex AI, Apache Iceberg, StarRocks, Applied AI/ML concepts).

Exposure to clickstream data processing and ITIL frameworks (ITIL Foundation).



Summary
If you are a tech-savvy Senior Data Engineer who pairs 7+ years of enterprise data engineering experience with deep expertise in Google BigQuery, Python, GCP pipelines, and large-scale data modeling, this 4-month contract opportunity is an ideal next step. Bring your pipeline precision, analytical problem-solving skills, and collaborative mindset to our client's analytics team today!

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