Remote GenAI Data Pipeline Engineer

Nelnet; Gering (NE); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

HSA/FSA contributions

401K + student loan repayment

Paid time off

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 ingest, transform, and serve client data with emphasis on data governance, FERPA considerations, and access controls.

Work within the GenAI delivery team to surface data readiness gaps and collaborate with GCP/Gemini engineers to ensure data structure and freshness for AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with Python for pipeline development and data transformation.

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 and RAG data stores.
• Monitor pipeline reliability, performance, and cost; optimize BigQuery usage and Dataflow jobs.

Skills

SQL development

Python

Data governance

Data modeling

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

BigQuery

Dataflow

Cloud Composer

Airflow

Dataplex

Cloud DLP

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer

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 ingest, transform, and serve client data with emphasis on data governance, FERPA considerations, and access controls.

Work within the GenAI delivery team to surface data readiness gaps and collaborate with GCP/Gemini engineers to ensure data structure and freshness for AI solutions.