Google Cloud Data Engineer

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Google Cloud Data Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are seeking a Google Cloud Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable data platforms on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• You will build data pipelines, data warehouses, and analytics solutions while ensuring data quality, security, and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop ETL/ELT processes using Google Cloud services.
• Ingest data from APIs, databases, and third-party systems.
• Optimize cloud costs and data processing performance.
• Implement data governance and security policies.
• Build and optimize BigQuery data warehouses.
• Automate deployments using Infrastructure as Code.
• Monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and software engineers.
• Develop scalable solutions using Python and SQL.
• Design and implement batch and streaming data pipelines.

Requirements
Required Technical SkillsGoogle Cloud:

• Cloud Composer (Apache Airflow)
• IAM
• Pub/Sub
• Dataproc (Apache Spark)
• Cloud Run
• VPC Networking
• Cloud Storage
• BigQuery
• Dataflow (Apache Beam)
• Cloud Functions
• Vertex AI (desirable)
• Cloud SQL

Programming:

• Python
• Bash (preferred)
• Java or Scala (optional)
• SQL (advanced)

Data Technologies:

• dbt (desirable)
• Apache Spark
• Apache Beam
• Airflow
• Apache Kafka (nice to have)

Databases:

• PostgreSQL
• SQL Server
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• Bigtable

DevOps:

• Docker
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build)
• Git
• Kubernetes (GKE)
• Terraform

Soft Skills:

• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Ability to work independently in a remote setting.
• Good communication for distributed teams
• Strong analytical thinking