GenAI Data Engineer – Remote, BigQuery & Governance

Nelnet; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

HSA and FSA

401K / student loan repayment

Wellness program

Job summary

Nelnet is seeking a Data Pipeline Engineer to design, build, and maintain data pipelines on Google Cloud for GenAI use cases. You will classify data for FERPA risk, implement access controls, and ensure governance across education and public-sector data.

You will collaborate with GCP/Gemini teams to ensure data structure meets AI needs, balance pipeline costs, and maintain high reliability while supporting remote and hybrid work arrangements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• Hands-on experience building data pipelines and ELT/ETL processes for analytics or GenAI use cases on a major cloud data platform
• Experience with data governance and classification tooling for identifying and managing sensitive or regulated data

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines using BigQuery and Dataflow for GenAI use cases
• Build and maintain ELT/ETL processes for batch ingestion into Google Cloud analytics stores
• Monitor pipeline reliability, performance, and cost, optimizing BigQuery usage and Dataflow jobs

Skills

SQL

Python

Data governance

Data pipelines

Google Cloud

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

Cloud Composer

Apache Airflow

Dataplex

Cloud DLP

Collibra

Alation

IAM

Pub/Sub

Job description

Nelnet is seeking a Data Pipeline Engineer to design, build, and maintain data pipelines on Google Cloud for GenAI use cases. You will classify data for FERPA risk, implement access controls, and ensure governance across education and public-sector data.

You will collaborate with GCP/Gemini teams to ensure data structure meets AI needs, balance pipeline costs, and maintain high reliability while supporting remote and hybrid work arrangements.