GCP AI Data Engineer — Hybrid Contract

Motion Recruitment; Phoenix (AZ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known Financial Services Company is seeking a Software Engineer on a long-term contract with hybrid work options in Phoenix, AZ, Charlotte, NC or Irving, TX. The role emphasizes data engineering, AI-enabled data capabilities on Google Cloud, and modern data pipelines.

You'll build with Spark/Flink/Kafka, Python, Airflow, and BigQuery, collaborating with engineers and product teams to deliver robust data solutions over a 12-month contract.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of Software Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated
• GCP exposure with 5–6 yrs experience in cloud data solutions
• 5+ years of data engineering including Spark-based ingestion and processing
• 3+ years in Data Lakehouse architecture and design using Python, pySpark, Kafka, Airflow, GCS, BigQuery, Data Proc, Cloud Composer
• Hands-on data flows with Kafka, Flink, and Spark streaming

Responsibilities

• Consult on or participate in moderately complex software engineering initiatives
• Review and analyze moderately complex engineering challenges
• Collaborate with client personnel to deliver software engineering deliverables
• Implement and operationalize modern AI-enabled data capabilities on Google Cloud
• Leverage AI/Agentic frameworks to automate data management and governance
• Work with principal engineers, product managers, and data engineers to roadmap key data capabilities

Skills

Software Engineering

Data engineering

Cloud data solutions

Tools

GCP

LangChain

LangGraph/ADK

RAG/GraphRAG

MCP

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Airflow

BigQuery

Data Proc

Cloud Composer

Python

Job description

A well-known Financial Services Company is seeking a Software Engineer on a long-term contract with hybrid work options in Phoenix, AZ, Charlotte, NC or Irving, TX. The role emphasizes data engineering, AI-enabled data capabilities on Google Cloud, and modern data pipelines.

You'll build with Spark/Flink/Kafka, Python, Airflow, and BigQuery, collaborating with engineers and product teams to deliver robust data solutions over a 12-month contract.