GCP Data Engineer (Need Ex Walmart) - W2 only

Job Role: Senior Data Engineer

Pay Rate: $65/hr. on W2

Location: 5 times a week in Bentonville, AR

Eligibility: No H1b, OPT

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

Job description:

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)

• Retail or large-scale consumer data experience