GCP Data Engineer

Job Description

Exp : 6-8 Years

Required Skills : SQL, Python, GCP, Big query, Pub Sub etc

Notice Period : Immediate to 30 Days

Work Location : Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune & Gurgaon

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Engineer to join our team and help build robust, scalable, and efficient data infrastructure. You will play a key role in designing and maintaining data pipelines, ensuring data quality, and supporting analytics and AI initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines across GCP.

Develop modular, object‑oriented Python applications for data ingestion, orchestration, and transformation.

Architect, deploy, and maintain data solutions leveraging GCP services: BigQuery, GCS, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, Eventarc, and DataForm.

Integrate with external APIs to ingest datasets into BigQuery and other storage layers.

Implement event-driven and real-time data processing architectures.

Build and automate CI/CD workflows for deploying pipelines and services using Cloud Build.

Ensure optimal performance, scalability, and cost efficiency of pipelines and data infrastructure.

Establish and enforce data quality, governance, lineage, and security standards.

Work closely with cross-functional teams to convert business needs into scalable data solutions.

Maintain detailed technical documentation and contribute to engineering best practices.

Must have skills

Proven experience building modular, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.

Hands-on expertise with GCP services such as BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, Cloud Composer, GCS, and Pub/Sub.

Hands-on Experience in Airflow

Ability to design and implement real-time event-driven architectures using Pub/Sub and Eventarc.

Experience integrating and consuming REST APIs for data ingestion.

Strong understanding of data governance, quality, privacy, and security practices.

Experience automating builds and deployments using CI/CD pipelines (Cloud Build preferred).

Ability to collaborate effectively with data science, product, engineering, and compliance teams.

Strong proficiency in Python with solid OOP principles, including encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction, SOLID, and design patterns.

Strong problem-solving, debugging, and system design skills.

Good to have skills

Familiarity with DataForm for SQL-based data transformations.

Exposure to Dataflow (Apache Beam) for large-scale batch/stream processing.

Knowledge of cost‑optimization techniques for cloud workloads.

Experience with API testing tools like Postman for documentation and QA.

Understanding of software architecture patterns (e.g., clean architecture, microservices).

Experience in building reusable internal libraries or frameworks.

Experience with Vertex AI for ML workflow integration.