Sr. Data Engineer and Architect

About

Client Management Experience

• Experience work closely with client enterprise architect.
• Act as a mentor to technical offshore data analytics team

Data Architecture experience

• Experience architecting solutions in Cloud Data Engineering platform (eg: GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Design end to end data architectures on GCP leveraging BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, and Looker.
• Develop modern data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse architectures using best practices and well architected frameworks in GCP and prefer to have experience in AWS, Azure & Databricks
• Create logical and physical data models, data flow diagrams, integration patterns, and reference architectures.
• Architect scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataproc (Spark), and/or Cloud Composer orchestrations.
• Lead cloud-native modernization initiatives: migration from legacy platforms to GCP.

Data Engineering & Development Oversight

• Provide expert guidance to data engineering teams on standards, patterns, and reusable frameworks.
• Optimize BigQuery performance including partitioning, clustering, materialized views, BI Engine, and storage optimizations.
• Implement data quality, metadata management, observability, and lineage frameworks using tools like Dataplex and Data Catalog.
• Ensure CI/CD adoption using Cloud Build, GitHub/GitLab pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).

Data Governance & Security

• Help define data governance standards including access models, encryption, retention, and data lifecycle management.
• Implement IAM policies, VPC Service Controls, organizational policy constraints, and secure data sharing patterns.
• Ensure compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, and internal corporate policies.