GCP Data Migration Lead

Han IT Staffing

🇺🇸 United States

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11 months ago

11 months ago

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Role Name: GCP Data Migration Lead
Location: Chicago, IL – onsite
Contract Role

Key Responsibilities:

Serve as Data Migration team leader for a large data and application migration to the Google Cloud

platform.

As Data Migration team leader, this individual will be responsible for our team's end-to-end data

architecture and migration planning to support the migration effort as well as future-state client
efforts on the Google Cloud platform.

As Data Migration team leader, this individual will collaborate closely with the overall Google Cloud

migration team leadership, working to deliver a successful application and data migration.

Design and build data pipelines: Develop and maintain reliable and scalable batch and real-time data

pipelines using GCP tools such as Cloud Dataflow (based on Apache Beam), Cloud Pub/Sub, and
Cloud Composer (for Apache Airflow).

Create and manage data storage solutions: Implement data warehousing and data lake solutions

using GCP products like BigQuery, Cloud Storage, and other transactional or NoSQL databases such
as Cloud SQL or Bigtable.

Ensure data quality and integrity: Develop and enforce procedures for data governance, quality

control, and validation throughout the data pipeline to ensure data is accurate and reliable.

Optimize performance and cost: Monitor data infrastructure and pipelines to identify and resolve

performance bottlenecks, ensuring that all data solutions are cost-effective and scalable.

Collaborate with other teams: Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders

to gather requirements and understand data needs, translating them into technical specifications.

Automate and orchestrate workflows: Automate data processes and manage complex workflows

using tools like Cloud Composer.

Implement security:Design and enforce data security and access controls using GCP Identity and

Access Management (IAM) and other best practices.

Maintain documentation: Create and maintain clear documentation for data pipelines, architecture,

and operational procedures.
Required Skills & Qualifications:

Must have GCP Professional Certifications or Associate Certification; Candidate with GCP
Professional Certifications will be given higher preference
8+ years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines in very complex
environments
Very Strong SQL skills and ability to build very complex transformation data pipelines using custom
ETL framework in Google BigQuery environment
Very strong understanding of data migration methods and tooling, with hands-on experience in at
least three (3) data migrations to Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform:Hands-on experience with key GCP data services is essential, including:
BigQuery: For data warehousing and analytics.
Cloud Dataflow: For building and managing data pipelines.
Cloud Storage: For storing large volumes of data.

Cloud Composer: For orchestrating workflows.

Cloud Pub/Sub: For real-time messaging and event ingestion.
DataProc: For running Apache Spark and other open-source frameworks.
Programming languages:Strong proficiency in programming languages, most commonly Python, is

mandatory. Experience with Java or Scala is also preferred.

SQL expertise: Advanced SQL skills for data analysis, transformation, and optimization within

Big Query and other databases.

ETL/ELT: Deep knowledge of Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) and Extract, Load, Transform (ELT)
processes.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC):Experience with tools like Terraform for deploying and managing cloud

infrastructure.

CI/CD: Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using

tools such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.

GCP Data Migration Lead · Han IT Staffing