Role GCP Lead Data Engineer
Client Ascension Health
Location Remote
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer with a distinguished background in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to spearhead the evolution of our enterprise data ecosystem. With 8 10 years of professional experience, the successful candidate will operate as a technical authority, designing and deploying sophisticated data architectures that bridge the gap between complex raw data and strategic business intelligence. This role demands a mastery of distributed computing, advanced Python development, and expert-level SQL optimization to ensure the integrity, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our global data assets.
Core Responsibilities
1. Architectural Strategy & System Design
Enterprise Framework Design: Conceptualize and implement end-to-end data architectures utilizing GCP's Modern Data Stack (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub).
Scalable Data Modeling: Lead the development of high-performance data models (Star, Snowflake, Data Vault) optimized for multi-petabyte scale and high-concurrency analytics.
Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Strategy: Provide technical leadership on data integration strategies spanning GCP, on-premise systems, and third-party SaaS environments.
2. Advanced Engineering & Pipeline Automation
Distributed Processing: Engineer highly resilient, low-latency streaming and batch pipelines using Apache Beam (Dataflow) and Cloud Composer (Airflow).
Software Engineering Excellence: Develop reusable Python libraries and frameworks to standardize data ingestion, logging, and error-handling across the engineering team.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Drive operational maturity by managing cloud resources exclusively through Terraform, ensuring robust versioning and environment parity.
3. Data Governance, Security & Performance
System Optimization: Conduct deep-dive performance tuning of BigQuery environments, implementing partitioning, clustering, and slot management to optimize ROI.
Security & Compliance: Architect data security protocols including VPC Service Controls, IAM Least Privilege, and data masking/encryption to meet global compliance standards (GDPR, SOC2).
Observability: Establish comprehensive monitoring and alerting frameworks for data health, ensuring high availability and meeting stringent Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
4. Technical Leadership & Collaboration
Strategic Mentorship: Serve as a mentor to mid-level and junior engineers, conducting rigorous code reviews and promoting best practices in DataOps.
Stakeholder Alignment: Act as a primary technical liaison between Data Science, Business Intelligence, and Executive leadership to translate business goals into technical roadmaps.
Education
• Bachelors or Masters in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant field.
Work Environment
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment, including but not limited to, computers, phones, and photocopiers.
Physical Demands
This position requires the frequent and repetitive use of a computer, keyboard, and mouse. Hand and finger dexterity is required.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
EEO
Saama provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Remote
Skills:
Apache, Architectural Services, Automation, Best Practices, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Computer Science, Concurrency, Copying Machines, Cryptography, Data Modeling, Data Science, Distributed Computing, Ecosystems, Error Handling, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), High Availability, Information Technology & Information Systems, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Leadership, Mentoring, Performance Modeling, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Photocopy, Physical Demands, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Regulatory Compliance, Resource Management, Return on Investment (ROI), SQL (Structured Query Language), Security Architecture, Security Protocols, Snowflake Schema, Software Engineering, Software as a Service (SaaS), Star Schema, Technical Leadership, Technical Strategy, Technical/Engineering Design
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