Data Engineer Specialist

Join Us! At Google Operations Center we help Google users and customers solve problems and achieve their goals—all while enjoying a culture focused on improving continuously and being better together. We work hard, we play hard, and we want you to join us! As a Data Engineer Specialist, you will be a key player in maintaining data integrity and ensuring the reliability of our critical reporting tools and dashboards.

Position Responsibilities

• Strategic Scoping: Collaborate with stakeholders to define data architecture, security protocols, and scalable access layers during the initial solution intake and evaluation phase.
• Technical Onboarding: Conduct comprehensive feasibility audits and system mapping during knowledge transfer to identify architectural bottlenecks and ensure seamless long-term operational integration.
• Pipeline Engineering: Architect high-performance ETL/ELT/ELTL workflows and automated data ingestion layers, delivering sophisticated business intelligence through advanced visualization and impact measurement.
• Incident Governance: Design an automated incident management framework to triage complex failures, optimizing manual runbooks into self-healing scripts for rapid resolution.
• Predictive Reliability: Implement proactive data observability using telemetry and Gemini-driven insights to preemptively mitigate latency, error rates, and potential component failures.
• End-to-End Sovereignty: Assume full orchestration ownership post-stabilization, overseeing continuous performance tuning, system health, and strict adherence to global legal compliance standards.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: 4-6 years of experience in data engineering or a related field.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, GCP, and Lookerstudio.
• Exceptional attention to detail with a proven ability to maintain high quality on repetitive tasks and detailed workflows.
• Excellent reading comprehension skills and comfort acting independently to follow detailed workflows and escalate when necessary.

Preferred Qualifications Preferred Qualifications:

Having as many of these specific qualifications is a plus, but transferable skills/experiences may be equally valuable:

• Experience with PLX/Looker, MySQL, Spanner, and Django.
• Strong problem solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to pick up skills on a new tech-stack rapidly.
• Ability to interact professionally with all levels of internal stakeholders

Benefits

• We support you with competitive wages and with comprehensive health care including medical, dental and vision coverage
• We support your family with gender-neutral baby bonding leave, 26 week birth-parent maternity leave, and generous life, accident and disability insurance minimums
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