Senior Data Engineer, GCP & Vertex AI (MLOps)

HEB; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

HEB Digital Technology in San Antonio, TX is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer (GCP/Vertex AI) to build production-grade data and machine-learning infrastructure that powers personalized search and product recommendations.

You will own data orchestration, feature engineering, and model serving at scale, collaborating with Data Science, ML Engineering, Search, Product Management, and Customer Experience teams to deliver scalable, real-time solutions using GCP, Vertex AI, and MLOps.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data engineering experience.
• Experience with large-scale infrastructure and SLAs.
• Experience with GCP Vertex AI.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data and ML infrastructure for the Customer Experience Engineering organization.
• Own data orchestration, feature engineering, and model serving for weekly personalized search and product recommendations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business objectives into scalable, production-grade technical solutions.
• Work hands-on with personalized online product search, search ranking, semantic search, and large-scale recommendation platforms.
• Operationalize ML and personalization models using GCP, Vertex AI, Feature Stores, and MLOps.
• Develop and support large-scale data pipelines using Python, PySpark, and SQL.
• Apply modern data lake/Lakehouse architectures, data modeling, and ETL/ELT pipelines including real-time Kafka streaming.
• Design and build scalable APIs and low-latency data services for production ML apps.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams to deliver resilient technical solutions.

Skills

Lean Startup

Agile

BI & Analytics

Data modeling

Coding standards

Prioritization

Communication

Ambiguity handling

Learning new tech

Team collaboration

Education

Related degree or equivalent

Tools

GCP

Vertex AI

Feature Stores

MLOps

Python

PySpark

SQL

Kafka

Job description

HEB Digital Technology in San Antonio, TX is seeking a Sr. Data Engineer (GCP/Vertex AI) to build production-grade data and machine-learning infrastructure that powers personalized search and product recommendations.

You will own data orchestration, feature engineering, and model serving at scale, collaborating with Data Science, ML Engineering, Search, Product Management, and Customer Experience teams to deliver scalable, real-time solutions using GCP, Vertex AI, and MLOps.