GCP Data Architect

Position: GCP Data Architect

Location: New York City, NY (This is 2-3 days/months from customer's office If someone is not local and willing to travel for 2-3 days every month, Client is fine to pay travel expenses if candidate is not local. (2-3 days in a month from NYC office)

• Experience: 8+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering or architecture, with at least 4-5 years focused on GCP-native environments.
• GCP Core Services: Deep knowledge of BigQuery (data warehousing), Cloud Data Fusion/Dataflow (ETL/ELT), Dataproc (Spark/Hadoop), and Pub/Sub (event streaming).
• Programming & Scripting: Strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and Shell scripting.
• Orchestration & DevOps: Experience with workflow orchestration tools (eg, Cloud Composer /Apache Airflow) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
• Data Modeling: Solid understanding of dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas, and data mesh/data fabric concepts.

• Database Migration: Familiarity with migrating Legacy databases (eg, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata) to the cloud.
• Data Governance: Practical experience using Dataplex for unified data governance