Data Engineer and Architect

HCL Global Systems, Inc.

$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in GCP or equivalent cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
  • Strong background in data architecture and engineering methodologies
  • Proven mentorship experience with technical teams, particularly offshore
  • Client management experience specifically working with enterprise architects
  • Expertise in creating scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and modern data platforms
  • Knowledge of data governance and security protocols, including GDPR and HIPAA compliance

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement end-to-end data architectures leveraging GCP and associated tools
  • Develop and optimize data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouses following best practices
  • Lead cloud migration initiatives from legacy systems to GCP for improved efficiency
  • Provide mentorship to data engineering teams on best practices and frameworks
  • Establish and enforce data governance standards and IAM policies to ensure security
  • Optimize data performance, particularly in GCP's BigQuery, through advanced techniques
  • Ensure CI/CD practices are adopted and implemented within data engineering processes

Benefits

  • Flexible work schedule with in-office requirements 2-3 days per week
  • Opportunity for hands-on experience with advanced cloud architecture and data solutions
  • Professional development through mentorship roles and leading data modernization initiatives
  • Engagement in high-level client interaction and enterprise-level decision-making
  • Exposure to a variety of cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and tools
Full Job Description
Role: Sr. Data Engineer and Architect
Location: Melville, NY (Long Island, NY) - in office 2-3 days/wk in client office

Design end to end data architectures on GCP leveraging
Experience architecting solutions in Cloud Data Engineering platform (eg: GCP, AWS, Azure)

Have you worked closely with client enterprise architect?
Have you acted as a mentor to technical offshore data analytics team?

Client Management Experience:
Experience work closely with client enterprise architect.
Act as a mentor to technical offshore data analytics team

Data Architecture experience:
• Experience architecting solutions in Cloud Data Engineering platform (eg: GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Design end to end data architectures on GCP leveraging BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Cloud Composer, Cloud Storage, and Looker.
• Develop modern data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse architectures using best practices and well architected frameworks in GCP and prefer to have experience in AWS, Azure & Databricks
• Create logical and physical data models, data flow diagrams, integration patterns, and reference architectures.
• rchitect scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Dataflow (Apache Beam), Dataproc (Spark), and/or Cloud Composer orchestrations.
• Lead cloud-native modernization initiatives: migration from legacy platforms to GCP.
2. Data Engineering & Development Oversight
• Provide expert guidance to data engineering teams on standards, patterns, and reusable frameworks.
• Optimize BigQuery performance including partitioning, clustering, materialized views, BI Engine, and storage optimizations.
• Implement data quality, metadata management, observability, and lineage frameworks using tools like Dataplex and Data Catalog.
• Ensure CI/CD adoption using Cloud Build, GitHub/GitLab pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).

Data Governance & Security
• Help define data governance standards including access models, encryption, retention, and data lifecycle management.
• Implement IAM policies, VPC Service Controls, organizational policy constraints, and secure data sharing patterns.
• Ensure compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, and internal corporate policies.

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