GCP Data Engineering Lead — BigQuery & Airflow Expert

Long Finch Technologies; Garfield (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Long Finch Technologies is seeking a Senior GCP Data Engineering Lead to drive cloud data modernization on Google Cloud Platform. You will lead end-to-end data engineering, migration, and analytics initiatives using BigQuery and Cloud Composer, partnering with stakeholders and offshore teams to ensure successful execution.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise in BigQuery, Airflow, Python, and SQL optimization, with strong focus on data quality, governance, and scalable design.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Data Engineering, Analytics, and Cloud Data Platforms.
• Hands-on experience with Google BigQuery.
• Experience with Cloud Composer / Apache Airflow using Python.
• Advanced SQL development, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Experience in large-scale Data Migration and Data Modernization programs.
• Knowledge of data modeling, ETL/ELT frameworks, and data warehousing concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of GCP-based data engineering and migration solutions.
• Design, develop, and optimize scalable data pipelines using Cloud Composer (Airflow) and Python.
• Build and manage enterprise data warehouses and analytics solutions using BigQuery.
• Perform complex SQL troubleshooting, query optimization, and data validation across large datasets.
• Drive data migration initiatives from legacy platforms to GCP while ensuring data integrity and regulatory compliance.
• Conduct data analysis to identify quality issues, transformation requirements, and optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with business users, data architects, and cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Review code, enforce engineering best practices, and provide technical leadership to development teams.
• Coordinate with QA teams to define test strategies, perform data reconciliation, and support defect resolution.
• Support production deployments, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and operational excellence initiatives.

Skills

BigQuery

Airflow/Cloud Composer

Python development

SQL optimization

Data migration programs

Data warehousing

ETL/ELT

Cloud data platforms

Data modeling

CI/CD / DevOps

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Cloud Composer

Cloud Storage

Dataflow

Dataproc

Job description

Long Finch Technologies is seeking a Senior GCP Data Engineering Lead to drive cloud data modernization on Google Cloud Platform. You will lead end-to-end data engineering, migration, and analytics initiatives using BigQuery and Cloud Composer, partnering with stakeholders and offshore teams to ensure successful execution.

The role requires deep hands-on expertise in BigQuery, Airflow, Python, and SQL optimization, with strong focus on data quality, governance, and scalable design.