Job Description

Strategic Staffing Solutions is currently looking for GCP Data Engineer, for a W2 contract opportunity with one of our largest clients!

This is a W2 contract opportunity, and the candidates should be willing to work on our W2 ONLY, NO C2C.

Required Technical Skills:

This position is focused on IAM Data Lake -Data Engineering responsibilities. We are seeking a Data Engineer with hands-on experience building Data Lake in Google Cloud Platform using big data tools and technologies. Experience with Hadoop/HDFS is highly desirable.

• Strong understanding of Google Cloud architecture, including bucket structuring, naming standards, lifecycle management policies, and access control mechanisms.
• Hands-on experience working with columnar data formats such as Parquet, Avro, and ORC, along with associated compression strategies.
• Experience building both batch and streaming ingestion pipelines using GCP-native services.
• Knowledge of Pub/Sub–based streaming architectures, including event schema design, schema evolution, and versioning best practices.
• Familiarity with incremental ingestion techniques and Change Data Capture (CDC) patterns.
• Understanding of data consumption and exposure patterns, including views, APIs, and curated analytical datasets.

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