Remote GenAI Data Engineer – BigQuery & Data Pipelines

Nelnet; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

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-enabled higher education solutions. You will classify data, enforce governance, and ensure access controls while collaborating with GCP/Gemini teams to prepare data for AI use.

Compensation ranges from $115,000 to $135,000 and a hybrid remote-friendly setup. The role emphasizes data quality, compliance (FERPA awareness), and scalable ELT/ETL processes across SIS/ERP sources, with a

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building data pipelines and ELT/ETL for analytics or GenAI use cases on a major cloud data platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines using BigQuery and Dataflow (or Cloud Composer/Apache Airflow).
• Build and maintain ELT/ETL processes for batch ingestion of client data into Google Cloud analytics.
• Monitor pipeline reliability, performance, and cost, optimizing BigQuery usage and Dataflow jobs.

Skills

Data pipelines

BigQuery

Dataflow

ELT/ETL

Python

SQL

Dataplex

DLP

IAM

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Dataplex

DLP

Airflow

GCP

Job description

Nelnet is seeking a Data Pipeline Engineer to design, build, and maintain data pipelines on Google Cloud for GenAI-enabled higher education solutions. You will classify data, enforce governance, and ensure access controls while collaborating with GCP/Gemini teams to prepare data for AI use.

Compensation ranges from $115,000 to $135,000 and a hybrid remote-friendly setup. The role emphasizes data quality, compliance (FERPA awareness), and scalable ELT/ETL processes across SIS/ERP sources, with a