What are the responsibilities and job description for the GCP Data Engineer (Need Ex Walmart) - W2 only position at FUSTIS LLC?
Job Role: Senior Data Engineer
Pay Rate: $65/hr. on W2
Location: 5 times a week in Bentonville, AR
Eligibility: No H1b, OPT
NOTE: Previous Walmart is preferred, however they need a good reference and can’t have worked for Walmart in the last 6 months
Must Haves:
GCP
SPARK
Airflow
SQL
GCP Data services
AI/ML IS A super nice to have
Job description:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, and GCP Dataflow
- Develop and maintain BigQuery data models, schemas, and performance-optimized SQL queries
- Build and maintain data pipelines feeding AI/ML feature stores and forecasting models
- Collaborate with AI Developers to ensure high-quality, low-latency data access for model training
- Manage and optimize Cloud Composer DAGs and pipeline orchestration
- Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and lineage tracking
- Participate in data platform architecture decisions and documentation
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• 3 years (Intermediate) or 5 years (Specialist) of data engineering experience
• Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow for pipeline orchestration
• Proficiency in Apache Spark for large-scale data processing
• Strong SQL skills including complex query optimization and BigQuery-specific capabilities
• Experience with GCP data services: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Dataflow
• Solid understanding of ETL/ELT patterns and data warehousing principles
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• GCP Professional Data Engineer certification
• Experience supporting ML/AI data infrastructure (feature engineering, training datasets)
• Familiarity with real-time streaming (Kafka, Dataflow/Flink)
• Retail or large-scale consumer data experience
Salary : $60 - $65