
Senior GCP Data Engineer
Mindera
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chennai • India
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About the role
- Role OverviewWe are looking for a **Senior GCP Data Engineer** who will design, build, and optimize scalable data platforms on **Google Cloud Platform**, leveraging **Databricks, dbt, and Apache Airflow**. You will work closely with product teams, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-performance data solutions.
Requirements
- Key Responsibilities
- - Design, develop, and maintain **scalable data pipelines** on **GCP**
- - Build and optimize **batch and streaming pipelines** using **Databricks (Spark)**
- - Develop **analytics-ready data models** using **dbt** following best practices
- - Orchestrate workflows and dependencies using **Apache Airflow**
- - Work with **BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub**, and other GCP services
- - Implement **data quality, testing, monitoring, and observability**
- - Optimize data performance and cost efficiency on GCP
- - Collaborate with Data Analysts, Data Scientists, and Product teams
- - Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering best practices
- - Participate in architecture discussions and technical decision-making
- Required Skills & QualificationsMust Have
- - Strong hands-on experience with **Google Cloud Platform (GCP)**
- - Expertise in **Databricks / Apache Spark**
- - Solid experience with **dbt (Core/Cloud)** for transformations and modeling
- - Hands-on experience with **Apache Airflow** for orchestration
- - Strong SQL skills (BigQuery preferred)
- - Proficiency in **Python**
- - Experience with data warehousing and dimensional modeling
- - Understanding of CI/CD for data pipelines
- - Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
- Good to Have
- - Experience with **streaming pipelines** (Pub/Sub, Spark Structured Streaming)
- - Knowledge of **Terraform / Infrastructure as Code**
- - Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and catalog tools
- - Experience working in consulting or client-facing roles
- - Exposure to other clouds (AWS/Azure)
Benefits
- We Offer
- - Competitive salary
- - Annual bonus, subject to company performance
- - Access to Udemy online training and opportunities to learn and grow within the role
- About MinderaAt Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.
- Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.
- We partner with our clients, to understand their product and deliver high performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.
- You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.
- Our culture reflects our lean and self-organisation attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.
- We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.
- Follow our Linkedln page - https://tinyurl.com/minderaindia
- Check ot our Blog: http://mindera.com/ and our Handbook: http://bit.ly/MinderaHandbook
- **Our offices are located: Aveiro, Portugal | Porto, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India**
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Google Cloud PlatformDatabricksApache AirflowdbtSQLPythondata warehousingdimensional modelingCI/CDstreaming pipelines
Soft skills
collaborationmentoringtechnical decision-making