Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Data Engineer

The role

You will design and build secure data architectures and pipelines on Google Cloud Platform. You will support strategic data and workload migrations to modernize federal data landscapes.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain robust data pipelines and ETL processes using GCP native services.
• Implement performance tuning including partitioning, broadcast joins, caching, and shuffle optimization.
• Integrate data from multiple sources such as databases, APIs, cloud storage, and streaming.
• Migrate legacy data stores and ETL pipelines to modernized, cloud-native architectures on GCP.
• Develop scalable batch and real-time streaming data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Apache Beam.
• Implement data governance, data quality checks, and secure data access controls.
• Collaborate with data scientists, cloud infrastructure engineers, and mission stakeholders.
• Architect and build automated CI/CD pipelines.

Required qualifications

• 3 to 5+ years of experience with data engineering, data warehousing, and/or big data processing.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building data pipelines and/or data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataflow, and/or Cloud Composer).
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Advanced proficiency in SQL.
• Experience with ETL/ELT concepts and tools.
• Active Top Secret (TS) or Interim TS security clearance is required.

Nice to have

• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification.
• Experience with migrating legacy relational databases to cloud-native databases.
• Familiarity with federal data strategies, RMF, and Impact Level 4/5 (IL4/IL5) security and compliance standards.

Benefits

• Hands-on experience
• Certifications
• Industry training

Before you apply

• Active Top Secret (TS) or Interim TS security clearance is required.
• Applicants in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.
• Candidates currently employed by a client of Accenture Federal Services or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

About the company

Accenture Federal Services is a technology company within global Accenture that helps the US federal government. Its 13,000+ people pursue technology and ingenuity for clients across defense, national security, public safety, civilian, and military health organizations.