GCP Data Engineer (W2 Only)

• Job Role: GCP Data Engineer
• Location: Bentonville, Arkansas, United States (Onsite Job)
• Pay Rate: $55/hr. on W2
• Eligibility: USC/GC/GC-EAD/H4-EAD only (NO SPONSORSHIP CANDIDATES)

Job Description:

• KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Design and build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, and GCP Dataflow
• Develop and maintain BigQuery data models, schemas, and performance-optimized SQL queries
• Build and maintain data pipelines feeding AI/ML feature stores and forecasting models
• Collaborate with AI Developers to ensure high-quality, low-latency data access for model training
• Manage and optimize Cloud Composer DAGs and pipeline orchestration
• Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and lineage tracking
• Participate in data platform architecture decisions and documentation
• REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• 3+ years (Intermediate) or 5+ years (Specialist) of data engineering experience
• Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow for pipeline orchestration
• Proficiency in Apache Spark for large-scale data processing
• Strong SQL skills including complex query optimization and BigQuery-specific capabilities
• Experience with GCP data services: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Dataflow
• Solid understanding of ETL/ELT patterns and data warehousing principles
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• GCP Professional Data Engineer certification
• Experience supporting ML/AI data infrastructure (feature engineering, training datasets)
• Familiarity with real-time streaming (Kafka, Dataflow/Flink)
• Retail or large-scale consumer data experience