Senior GCP Data Engineer – Banking and Credit Decisioning

The role is for a client who is a leader in financial services supporting credit lending decisioning through advanced cloud-native architectures. The position is based in Krakow with a hybrid work model allowing up to 3 remote days per week.

• Minimum 5 years of experience with GCP native storage and processing systems including BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and GCP buckets.
• Expertise in designing scalable storage solutions for SQL and NoSQL databases considering costs, volume, retention, and backup.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Composer, Dataflow, GKE, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, and error log sinks.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps tools like Cloud Build, Cloud Logging, and Cloud Monitoring.
• Solid understanding of site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.
• Experience with code quality/security tools such as SonarQube, CyberFlow, and Jenkins.

Nice to have:

• Experience in analytics and decisioning platforms.
• Knowledge of ML pipelines using Vertex AI, JupyterLab.
• Domain experience in banking, credit lending, or decisioning.
• End-to-end support experience in production environments.
• Performance tuning skills for highly available cloud systems.

• Design and develop backend data processing applications using GCP native storage systems like BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and GCP buckets.
• Build performant Airflow DAGs / Cloud Composer and Google Cloud Dataflow pipelines for application deployment on GKE.
• Develop Looker reports aligned with business requirements, automating data pipelines with Airflow.
• Ensure cost-efficient, high-performance data processing and storage.
• Integrate backend systems with front-end applications maintaining security, authorization, and authentication.
• Create data pipelines for data movement between on-premises systems and GCP using Juniper.
• Develop cloud-native decisioning applications on GKE.
• Utilize GCP-managed services like Cloud Storage and Pub/Sub for real-time data updates.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins.
• Maintain coding best practices, quality standards, and security protocols.

Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in the European Union will be considered for this role.