Accenture

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Data Engineer

Accenture$100K — $203K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3 to 5+ years in data engineering, warehousing, or big data processing.
  • 2+ years building data solutions on GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Composer).
  • Strong Python programming skills and advanced SQL proficiency.
  • Experience with ETL/ELT concepts and tools.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes for large-scale data systems.
  • Implement performance tuning for data processes.
  • Integrate data from various sources and manage their transitions.
  • Migrate legacy data stores to cloud-native architectures on GCP.
  • Develop scalable batch and real-time streaming pipelines using Python and SQL.
  • Implement data governance and quality checks in line with federal regulations.
  • Collaborate to optimize data models and query performance.

Benefits

  • Wide variety of benefits available.
  • Reasonable ranges of compensation provided based on local labor costs.
  • Continuous application acceptance without fixed deadlines.
Full Job Description
The work you'll do:
  • Design, develop, and maintain robust data pipelines and ETL processes that enable the seamless integration, cleansing, harmonization, and transformations in large-scale data processing systems and data lakes/data warehouses using GCP native services (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataflow, Dataproc, Pub/Sub).
  • Implement performance tuning (partitioning, broadcast joins, caching, shuffle optimization).
  • Integrate data from multiple sources (databases, APIs, cloud storage, potentially streaming).
  • Migrate legacy data stores and ETL pipelines to modernized, cloud-native architectures on GCP.
  • Develop scalable batch and real-time streaming data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Apache Beam.
  • Implement data governance, data quality checks, and secure data access controls in alignment with strict federal security requirements.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, cloud infrastructure engineers, and mission stakeholders to optimize data models and query performance.
  • Design and Implement CI/CD Pipelines: Architect and build robust, automated CI/CD pipelines to streamline the build, test, and deployment processes from development through to production environments

Here's what you'll need:
  • 3 to 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or big data processing.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience building data pipelines and/or data solutions on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataflow, Cloud Composer).
  • Strong programming skills in Python and advanced proficiency in SQL.
  • Experience with ETL/ELT concepts and tools.

Bonus points if you have:
  • Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification.
  • Experience with migrating legacy relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server) to cloud-native databases (e.g., Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner).
  • Familiarity with federal data strategies, RMF, and Impact Level 4/5 (IL4/IL5) security and compliance standards.

Security clearance:
  • Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance is required.


As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides reasonable ranges of compensation for hired roles based on labor costs in the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland. The base pay range for this position in these locations is shown below. Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. Accenture Federal Services offers a wide variety of benefits. You can find more information on benefits here. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia, and the city of Cleveland is:

$100,200-$203,400 USD

About Accenture

Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. The company has more than 537,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture operates across five business segments: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Health & Public Service; Products; and Resources. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices worldwide.
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$5.2 billion
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