We’re Hiring: GCP Senior Data Engineer – Lead Role

Location:
Canada (Remote) Aptino Inc. is looking for an experienced GCP Senior Data Engineer / Data Engineering Lead to lead a team of 10 engineers and drive the design, development, and optimization of scalable data engineering solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is a leadership-focused role requiring hands-on technical expertise and proven experience managing onshore and offshore data engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities
• Lead and mentor a team of 10 data engineers across onshore and offshore teams.
• Design, develop, and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using Apache Beam, Dataflow, Spark, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Functions.
• Architect and manage BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and Data Fusion solutions.
• Establish coding standards, conduct code reviews, and implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Optimize pipeline performance, query efficiency, and GCP costs, including partitioning and slot reservations.
• Implement monitoring, logging, data quality, lineage, and metadata management.
• Collaborate with data architects, data scientists, and analysts to support advanced analytics and machine learning use cases. Required

Skills:
✅ Proven experience leading data engineering teams, including onshore and offshore resources.



✅ Strong hands-on expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP). ✅ Proficiency in SQL, Python, Java/Scala, and distributed processing frameworks such as Spark and Apache Beam. ✅ Experience with BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Composer (Airflow). ✅ Strong knowledge of Terraform, Git, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. ✅ Experience with scalable data architectures, pipeline optimization, and production support. Important: This is a lead position, not an individual-contributor-only Senior Data Engineer role. Candidates must have proven team leadership experience. Nice to Have:
• Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification.
• Experience with real-time data processing.
• Familiarity with Vertex AI and multi-cloud environments.
• Knowledge of dbt, Data Catalog, and data governance practices. ? Interested candidates: Please share your updated resume at [email protected] / [email protected] Contact No
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📌 GCP Senior Data Engineer – Lead Role (Canada)
🏢 Aptino
📍 Canada