Cloud Data Engineer, Professional Services, Google Public Sector

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3 years of experience with relational database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle.
• Experience working with business stakeholders to understand requirements, provide technical leadership, and educate teams on GCP best practices.
• Active, or the ability to obtain, a TS/SCI security clearance.
  

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with database and AI integrations.
  
• Experience with database management tools for backups, recovery, snapshot management, sharding, partitioning and database performance tuning.
• Experience in database administration techniques including storage, clustering, availability, disaster recovery, security, logging, performance tuning, monitoring and auditing.
• Experience developing, deploying, and managing machine learning models, including experience writing software in one or more languages, such as Java, Python, or Golang.
• Experience working with cloud databases such as RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, CloudSQL, AlloyDB, Datastore or Bigtable.
• Experience with machine learning operations (MLOps), data warehousing, and data pipeline development, including ETL and ELT.

About the job

As a Cloud Data Engineer, you will guide Public Sector customers to develop, configure and deploy their data and AI solutions. Together with the team, you will support customer implementations of Google Cloud products through architecture guidance, best practices, data migration, capacity planning, implementation, troubleshooting, monitoring, and more. You will consult with customers on how to best design their data and AI solutions including development and deployment of ML models, and integrations with leading Google technologies. You will travel to customer sites to deploy solutions and deliver workshops to educate and empower customers. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features. Your role requires the ability to travel up to 30% of the time.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $123,000-$176,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Translate business requirements into conceptual, rational, and physical data models.
• Be highly collaborative and work closely with data producers and data consumers across public sector customers and teams to understand the data needs, provide consultation, and align data solutions.
• Analyze on-premise and cloud database environments, consulting on the optimal design for performance and deployment on Google Cloud Platform. Design, build, and maintain data warehouse and pipeline solutions.
  
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations, adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders.
  
• Travel regularly (up to 30%) for meetings, technical reviews, and onsite delivery activities.