Data Engineering Lead - GCP Big Query
Remote Contract (5 months 30 days) Published 25 days ago GCP Bigquery ETL/ELT pipelines Data Engineering Lead – GCP BigQuery, responsibilities:
- Lead the design and delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms on GCP, with BigQuery as the core analytics engine.
- Own data warehouse architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization in BigQuery.
- Design and implement ETL/ELT pipelines using GCP services like Dataflow, Dataproc, and Cloud Composer.
- Provide technical leadership for Teradata environments and drive migration or coexistence strategies with GCP.
- Ensure data quality, reliability, security, and governance across all data pipelines.
- Optimize systems for scalability, cost efficiency, and operational excellence.
- Build and enforce engineering best practices including CI/CD, testing, and monitoring.
- Lead, mentor, and review the work of data engineers and senior engineers.
- Collaborate with analytics, data science, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions. Able to work in Python.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor for modern data architecture and platform strategy.
The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $44.85/hour - $70.07/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis. Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.