Lead GCP DE

Job Description - Lead GCP Data Engineer

Role:	Lead GCP Data Engineer
Experience:	8 + Years
Location:	All EXL Location
Work Mode:	Hybrid

Job Summary

The Lead GCP Data Engineer will provide technical expertise in analysis, design, development, rollout and maintenance of data integration initiatives. This role will contribute to implementation methodologies and best practices, as well as work on project teams to analyse, design, develop and deploy business intelligence / data integration solutions to support a variety of customer needs. This position oversees a team of Data Integration Consultants at various levels, ensuring their success on projects, goals, trainings and initiatives through mentoring and coaching.

Provides technical expertise in needs identification, data modelling, data movement and transformation mapping (source to target), automation and testing strategies, translating business needs into technical solutions with adherence to established data guidelines and approaches from a business unit or project perspective whilst leveraging best fit technologies (e.g., cloud, Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.) and approaches to address business and environmental challenges.

Works with stakeholders to identify and define self-service analytic solutions, dashboards, actionable enterprise business intelligence reports and business intelligence best practices. Responsible for repeatable, lean and maintainable enterprise BI design across organizations. Effectively partners with client team.

Leadership not only in the conventional sense, but also within a team we expect people to be leaders. Candidate should elicit leadership qualities such as Innovation, Critical thinking, optimism/positivity, Communication, Time Management, Collaboration, Problem-solving, Acting Independently, Knowledge sharing and Approachable.

Essential Duties

• Design, develop, test, and deploy data integration processes (batch or real-time) using tools such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Datastream, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, DBT, Cloud Storage (GCS), etc.
• Create functional & technical documentation – e.g. ETL architecture documentation, unit testing plans and results, data integration specifications, data testing plans, etc.
• Provide a consultative approach with business users, asking questions to understand the business need and deriving the data flow, conceptual, logical, and physical data models based on those needs. Perform data analysis to validate data models and to confirm ability to meet business needs.
• May serve as project or DI lead, overseeing multiple consultants from various competencies.
• Stays current with emerging and changing technologies to best recommend and implement beneficial technologies and approaches for Data Integration including BigQuery, Dataflow, Datastream, Dataplex, Vertex AI, Cloud Composer, and DBT.
• Ensures proper execution/creation of methodology, training, templates, resource plans and engagement review processes.
• Coach team members to ensure understanding on projects and tasks, providing effective feedback (critical and positive) and promoting growth opportunities when appropriate.

Education & Experience

• 10 Years industry implementation experience with data integration such as BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Composer (Airflow), Datastream, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, DBT, Apache Spark/PySpark, Hadoop ecosystem technologies, etc. 3-5 years of management experience required.
• 3 - 5 years consulting experience preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of data architecture, data modelling or similar experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, Master’s Degree Preferred.
• Strong data warehousing, OLTP systems, data integration and SDLC.
• Strong experience in big data frameworks & working experience in Spark or Hadoop or Hive (incl. derivatives like pySpark (preferred), Spark Scala or Spark SQL) or Similar, along with experience in libraries / frameworks to accelerate code development.
• Experience with major database platforms (BigQuery, SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Snowflake, Redshift, Cloud Storage (GCS), etc.).
• Strong experience in orchestration & working experience in either Cloud Composer (Airflow), Cloud Workflows, Cloud Scheduler, Dataflow orchestration, or similar cloud orchestration technologies.
• Understanding and experience with major Data Architecture philosophies (Dimensional, ODS, Data Vault, etc.).
• Understanding of modern data warehouse capabilities and technologies such as BigQuery, real-time analytics, cloud-native ELT, CDC, lakehouse architectures, and Big Data.
• Understanding of on premises and cloud infrastructure architectures (primarily GCP, along with AWS and Azure).
• Strong experience in Agile Process (Scrum cadences, Roles, deliverables) & working experience in either JIRA, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Terraform or similar with Experience in CI/CD using one or more code management platforms.
• 3 - 5 years’ development experience in decision support / business intelligence environments utilizing tools such as Looker, Power BI, Tableau, Qlik and BigQuery-based analytics platforms.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• Knowledge and working experience with Data Integration processes, such as Data Warehousing, EAI, etc.
• Experience in providing estimates for the Data Integration projects including testing, documentation, and implementation.
• Ability to analyse business requirements as they relate to the data movement and transformation processes, research, evaluation and recommendation of alternative solutions.
• Ability to provide technical direction to other team members including contractors and employees.
• Ability to contribute to conceptual data modelling sessions to accurately define business processes, independently of data structures and then combines the two together.
• Proven experience leading team members, directly or indirectly, in completing high-quality major deliverables with superior results.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a trusted advisor that builds influence with client management beyond simply EDM.
• Can create documentation and presentations such that they “stand on their own”.
• Can advise sales on evaluation of Data Integration efforts for new or existing client work.
• Can contribute to internal/external proof of concepts involving BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, Datastream, Pub/Sub, DBT, Looker and Vertex AI.
• Demonstrates ability to create new and innovative solutions to problems that have previously not been encountered.
• Ability to work independently on projects as well as collaborate effectively across teams.
• Must excel in a fast-paced, agile environment where critical thinking and strong problem solving skills are required for success.
• Strong team building, interpersonal, analytical, problem identification and resolution skills.
• Experience working with multi-level business communities.
• Can effectively utilise SQL and/or available BI tools to validate/elaborate business rules.
• Demonstrates an understanding of EDM architectures and applies this knowledge in collaborating with the team to design effective solutions to business problems/issues.
• Effectively influences and, at times, oversees business and data analysis activities to ensure sufficient understanding and quality of data.
• Demonstrates a complete understanding of and utilises DSC methodology documents to efficiently complete assigned roles and associated tasks.
• Deals effectively with all team members and builds strong working relationships/rapport with them.
• Understands and leverages a multi-layer semantic model to ensure scalability, durability, and supportability of the analytic solution.
• Understands modern data warehouse concepts (BigQuery, Medallion Architecture, Data Lakehouse, real-time analytics, cloud-native ELT, CDC, and Big Data) and how to enable such capabilities from a reporting and analytic standpoint.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a trusted advisor that builds influence with client management beyond simply EDM.

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience.

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