Senior Gcp Data Engineering Lead

Description:

Sr. GCP Data Engineer – Lead / Individual Contributor
📍 Location: New Jersey / New York – Onsite - Only Local Candidates
💼 Type: Contract
💰 Rate: $60/hr C2C

We are looking for a Senior GCP Data Engineering Lead to join a client-facing, onshore engagement focused on large-scale cloud data modernization, migration, and analytics initiatives.

Key Requirements:
• 10+ years of Data Engineering / Analytics experience
• Strong hands-on GCP & BigQuery experience
• Cloud Composer / Apache Airflow + Python
• Advanced SQL development, debugging & optimization
• Large-scale Data Migration & Data Modernization
• Data modeling, ETL/ELT & Data Warehousing
• GCP services: Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc, IAM, Monitoring & Logging
• CI/CD and cloud DevOps practices
• Strong client-facing communication & stakeholder management
• Experience leading onshore/offshore teams

Preferred:
• Banking / Financial Services / Wealth Management experience
• Data Quality, Governance & Metadata Management
• GCP Professional Data Engineer Certification
• Migration experience from Teradata, Hadoop, Oracle, SQL Server or other legacy platforms