GCP Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Hands-on Technical Lead / Senior Data Engineer leading an offshore BAU Data Engineering team, maintaining and improving GCP data pipelines with a focus on BigQuery, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Python, and SQL production support.

πŸš€ We're Hiring: Senior Data Engineer / Technical Lead

Experience: 10+ Years

Location: Remote

Shift: 2:00 PM – 11:00 PM IST


Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Technical Lead / Senior Data Engineer to lead a BAU Data Engineering team responsible for the stability, reliability, production support, and continuous improvement of data pipelines on GCP.

The role requires strong hands-on expertise across the Data Lake β†’ Dimensions/Facts β†’ Data Warehouse lifecycle, along with team leadership and production troubleshooting capabilities.


Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor an offshore BAU Data Engineering / Production Support team.
  • Act as the technical escalation point for pipeline failures and data issues.
  • Troubleshoot production issues and implement SQL fixes, DAG updates, backfills, and validations.
  • Build and optimize Apache Airflow / Cloud Composer DAGs, including Jinja templating.
  • Optimize BigQuery queries, partitioning, clustering, and cost.
  • Develop Python automation to reduce recurring production issues and manual effort.
  • Ensure strict ITIL, change management, testing, deployment, evidence, and rollback processes.
  • Work closely with global/US teams and provide required working-hour overlap.
  • Drive continuous improvement and reduce technical debt.


Mandatory Skills

βœ… SQL Server

βœ… Python

βœ… Apache Airflow / Cloud Composer

βœ… Hadoop

βœ… Google BigQuery

βœ… Data Lake

βœ… Production Support / Incident Management

βœ… Data Engineering Technical Leadership


Preferred Skills

  • BigQuery SCD Type 1 & Type 2
  • Partitioning & Clustering
  • Kimball Data Warehouse methodology
  • Star Schema, Dimensions & Facts
  • Salesforce data integration
  • GCP Data Engineering
  • Python automation & API integration
  • BAU / Production Support
  • ITIL & Change Management


Interested candidates can share their updated resume.


To this Email address - hari.prasad@teceze.com

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