What are the responsibilities and job description for the Google Cloud Platform Data Engineer position at Strategic Staffing Solutions?
Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for Google Cloud Platform Data Engineer, for a W2 contract opportunity with one of our largest clients!
This is a W2 contract opportunity, and the candidates should be willing to work on our W2 ONLY, NO C2C.
Google Cloud Platform Data Engineer
Location: Dallas, TX
Type: W2 Contract 12 months
Work Schedule: Onsite-Hybrid, standard working hours.
Schedule: 3 days in office
Required Technical Skills:
This position is focused on IAM Data Lake -Data Engineering responsibilities. We are seeking a Data Engineer with hands-on experience building Data Lake in Google Cloud Platform using big data tools and technologies. Experience with Hadoop/HDFS is highly desirable.
- Strong understanding of Google Cloud architecture, including bucket structuring, naming standards, lifecycle management policies, and access control mechanisms.
- Hands-on experience working with columnar data formats such as Parquet, Avro, and ORC, along with associated compression strategies.
- Experience building both batch and streaming ingestion pipelines using Google Cloud Platform-native services.
- Knowledge of Pub/Sub based streaming architectures, including event schema design, schema evolution, and versioning best practices.
- Familiarity with incremental ingestion techniques and Change Data Capture (CDC) patterns.
- Understanding of data consumption and exposure patterns, including views, APIs, and curated analytical datasets.
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