Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Velocity Tech has partnered with an exciting Health Tech company in the US who are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join. The role involves designing and owning scalable data architectures on GCP, leading the development of ETL/ELT pipelines, and establishing best practices in data modelling and governance.
Responsibilities
- Design and own scalable, production-grade data architectures on GCP
- Lead the development of robust ETL/ELT pipelines using modern data stack tools
- Build and optimise data warehouses and lakehouse architectures (e.g. BigQuery)
- Establish best practices in data modelling, governance, and data quality
Skills
- 8+ years in data engineering or related field, with experience at Staff or Senior level
- Strong experience with GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Composer)
- Expertise in Python and SQL for data processing and pipeline development
- Experience building distributed data systems and handling large-scale datasets
- Strong understanding of data modelling techniques (e.g. dimensional modelling)
- Experience with orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow / Cloud Composer)
- Solid understanding of streaming and batch data processing
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