Data engineer

Data Engineer

Client: Charles Schwab

Location: Lone Tree, CO

Onsite: 4 days a week

Interview process: 2 video interviews to hire

Contract: 6 months extendable

Must-have Skills / Experience:

• Strong SQL and data warehouse / database development (≈50% of role focus)
• Hands‐on GCP experience (BigQuery required)
• Python for ETL/data pipelines and loading data into BigQuery (native Python packages)
• Experience designing and building data marts to support reporting and analytics
• Reliable work ethic and proven contractor professionalism

Important / Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio, etc.) — ~20% of role focus
• Some experience with prompting / AI pipelines and Copilot/Visual Studio workflows — ~20% of role focus
• Prior experience in financial services is desirable but not required
• No requirement for PySpark / Spark or specialized big‐data tooling for this short‐term role