Staff Data Engineer - GCP

Velocity Tech has partnered with an exciting Health Tech company in the US who are looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join.

This role is fully remote with no expectation of travel. You must be based in the US,

Responsibilities;

Design and own scalable, production-grade data architectures on GCP

Lead the development of robust ETL/ELT pipelines using modern data stack tools

Build and optimise data warehouses and lakehouse architectures (e.g. BigQuery)

Establish best practices in data modelling, governance, and data quality

Requirements;

8+ years in data engineering or related field, with experience at Staff or Senior level

Strong experience with GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Composer)

Expertise in Python and SQL for data processing and pipeline development

Experience building distributed data systems and handling large-scale datasets

Strong understanding of data modelling techniques (e.g. dimensional modelling)

Experience with orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow / Cloud Composer)

Solid understanding of streaming and batch data processing