GCP Data Engineer

Job Title : GCP Data Engineer

Location : Gurgaon

Experience : 3-8 years

About the Role :

Design, build, and maintain large-scale data pipelines on BigQuery and other Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.

Use Python and PySpark / Spark to transform, clean, aggregate and prepare data for analytics / ML.

Orchestrate workflows using Cloud Composer (Airflow) to schedule, monitor and operationalise jobs.

Optimize query performance, partitioning, clustering and cost in BigQuery.

Work with structured, semi-structured and unstructured data, integrating multiple data sources.

Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, business stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions.

Implement data governance, quality checks, pipeline monitoring, version control & CI / CD practices.

Required Skills / Qualifications :

Strong hands-on experience with GCP services : BigQuery, Cloud Storage, DataProc / Dataproc, Dataflow, Pub / Sub, Cloud Composer. For example : designing pipelines, data ingestion, transformations. (Several roles explicitly list BigQuery + Composer + DataProc or Dataflow)

Proficiency in Python (scripting, ETL, automation) and PySpark (or Spark) for large-scale data processing.

Excellent SQL and BigQuery SQL skills, including query optimization, partitioning / clustering design.

Experience with workflow orchestration tools : Cloud Composer (Airflow) or equivalent scheduling tools.

Experience building and managing ELT / ETL / data-warehouse solutions at scale (data modelling, schemas, star / snowflake, analytics).

Good understanding of cloud-native architecture, cost optimisation, data security, monitoring, and possibly DevOps / CI / CD.

(Preferable) Certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer or hands-on large-scale projects in GCP.