Senior GCP Data Engineer: Oracle to BigQuery ETL (Hybrid)

eXalt Fi; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

eXalt Fi is seeking two senior Data Engineers to lead the migration of on-prem ETL processes to Google Cloud from Portugal, with a hybrid work arrangement (Lisbon or Porto, 2 days on-site).

You will design and run ETL/ELT pipelines on GCP, optimize queries for BigQuery, and implement automation, data quality checks, and robust collaboration with DBAs, analysts, and data scientists. Fluent French and English (B2+) required.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of data engineering or ETL development experience.
• Hands-on with Google Cloud: BigQuery and Airflow/Cloud Composer.
• Experience migrating ETL/ELT from on-premises to cloud.
• Fluent in French and English (minimum B2).

Responsibilities

• Design and run the migration of data and ETL processes from on-premise databases to BigQuery.
• Build and maintain robust ETL/ELT pipelines on GCP using Airflow/Cloud Composer.
• Write and optimise complex SQL for BigQuery and design efficient schemas.
• Automate migration and transformation tasks with Python and implement data quality checks.
• Collaborate with DBAs, analysts, and data scientists, and support pipelines in production.

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT design

Data modeling

Communication

Tools

BigQuery

Airflow / Cloud Composer

Oracle SQL/PLSQL

Dataflow

Cloud Storage

DMS

Job description

eXalt Fi is seeking two senior Data Engineers to lead the migration of on-prem ETL processes to Google Cloud from Portugal, with a hybrid work arrangement (Lisbon or Porto, 2 days on-site).

You will design and run ETL/ELT pipelines on GCP, optimize queries for BigQuery, and implement automation, data quality checks, and robust collaboration with DBAs, analysts, and data scientists. Fluent French and English (B2+) required.