GCP Data Engineer (Need Ex Walmart) - W2 only

Location: 5 times a week in Bentonville, AR NOTE: Previous Walmart is preferred, however they need a good reference and can’t have worked for Walmart in the last 6 months Must Haves GCP SPARK Airflow SQL GCP Data services AI/ML IS A super nice to have KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Design and build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, and GCP Dataflow Develop and maintain BigQuery data models, schemas, and performance-optimized SQL queries Build and maintain data pipelines feeding AI/ML feature stores and forecasting models Collaborate with AI Developers to ensure high-quality, low-latency data access for model training Manage and optimize Cloud Composer DAGs and pipeline orchestration Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and lineage tracking Participate in data platform architecture decisions and documentation REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS 3+ years (Intermediate) or 5+ years (Specialist) of data engineering experience Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow for pipeline orchestration Proficiency in Apache Spark for large-scale data processing Strong SQL skills including complex query optimization and BigQuery-specific capabilities Experience with GCP data services: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Dataflow Solid understanding of ETL/ELT patterns and data warehousing principles PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS GCP Professional Data Engineer certification Experience supporting ML/AI data infrastructure (feature engineering, training datasets) Familiarity with real-time streaming (Kafka, Dataflow/Flink) #J-18808-Ljbffr