About the role
sudocodelab_new is seeking a Senior GCP Data Engineer (contractor, India) to join a data engineering team building and scaling cloud-native data platforms. The role focuses on designing, developing, and optimizing data pipelines and services on Google Cloud Platform to enable analytics, reporting, and AI/ML use cases across enterprise domains. You will design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines using GCP services (BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage), implement ETL/ELT workflows for structured and unstructured data, define and optimize data models, and drive improvements in scalability, reliability, and performance. The role also includes implementing security and compliance practices, establishing observability and monitoring, and contributing to CI/CD and automation for data engineering workflows. This is a contractor role based in India, collaborating with globally distributed teams and working closely with analytics, data science, and business stakeholders.
Requirements
- 8+ years of data engineering experience
- Strong expertise in Google Cloud Platform services: BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage
- Proficiency in SQL and data modeling
- Experience with Python or Java for data engineering tasks
- Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT frameworks
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes for containerized data workloads
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills