Cloud Data Engineer

Cloud EngineerLocation: NC, AZ, MN, TX (Hybrid) Onsite 3 days a week - Charlotte, Irving, Minneapolis, Chandler18-24 plus month W2 Only (NO OPT's or H1B) PV: JUDGE GROUPSummary:Must Haves:Cloud Engineer, GCP, LangChain or LangGraph5+ years of experience in data engineering including hands-on experience working with Hadoop and Google Cloud data solutions: creating/supporting Spark based processing, Kafka streaming, in a highly collaborative team2+ years of hands-on experience developing data flows using Kafka, Flink, and Spark streaming3+ years of experience with Data lakehouse architecture and design, including hands-on experience with Python, pySpark, Apache Kafka, Airflow, and SQL, GPC Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Data Proc, Cloud Composer2+ years working with NoSQL databases such as columnar databases, graph databases, document databases, KV stores, and associated data formatsPublic cloud certifications such as GCP Professional Data Engineer, Azure Data Engineer, or AWS Specialty Data AnalyticsProven skills with data migration from on-prem to a cloud native environmentProven experience working with the Hadoop ecosystem capabilities such as Hive, HDFS, Parquet, Iceberg, and Delta TablesDeep understanding of data warehouse, data cloud architecture, building data pipelines, and orchestrationDesign and implementation of highly scalable and modular data pipelines with built-in data controls for automating data governanceFamiliarity of GenAI frameworks such as Langchain and Langraph to develop agent-based data capabilitiesDev Ops and CI/CD deployments including Git, Jenkins, Docker, and KubernetesWeb based UI development using React and Node JS is a plus