GCP Data Engineer
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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- 5 years of experience in data engineering or a similar role.
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Job Title: GCP Data Engineer
Contract: 3+ months Contract with extension or solid possibility to Hire
Location: Toronto – Onsite only
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines on GCP, primarily using BigQuery.
- Nice to have the experience to Develop and manage DBT models to transform raw data into clean, tested, and documented datasets.
- Write complex and optimized SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, and analysis.
- Implement and maintain data warehousing solutions, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Monitor and troubleshoot data pipeline performance and data quality issues.
- Automate data workflows and tasks using Python scripts where necessary.
- Ensure data governance, security, and compliance standards are met.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 5 years of experience in data engineering or a similar role.
- Strong expertise in SQL with the ability to write efficient, complex queries.
- Nice to have knowledge in DBT for data modeling and transformation
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery and other GCP data services.
- Solid understanding of data warehousing principles and best practices.
- Basic to intermediate skills in Python for scripting and automation.
- Familiarity with version control systems like Git.
- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
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Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable GCP data pipelines and data warehousing solutions, primarily using BigQuery, SQL, and optionally DBT. Automate workflows, monitor pipeline performance and data quality, uphold governance and security standards, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, plus five years of data engineering or similar experience. Candidates should have strong SQL skills, hands-on BigQuery and GCP experience, data warehousing knowledge, basic-to-intermediate Python, and familiarity with Git; DBT knowledge is a plus.
Skills
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- BigQuery
- SQL
- Data Engineering
- Data Pipelines
- DBT
- Data Modeling
- Data Warehousing
- Python
- Git
- Data Governance
- Data Security
- Data Quality
- Workflow Automation
- Problem-Solving
- Communication
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Categories
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Software
Keywords
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- BigQuery
- DBT
- SQL
- Python
- Git
- Data Engineering
- Data Pipelines
- Data Warehousing
- Data Modeling
- Data Transformation
- Data Extraction
- Data Analysis
- Workflow Automation
- Data Governance
- Data Security
- Data Compliance
- Data Quality
- Pipeline Monitoring
- Pipeline Troubleshooting
- Scalability
- Performance Optimization
- Stakeholder Collaboration
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