Lead Cloud Data Platform Engineer - NC

Job#: 3028121

Job Description:

Client: Financial Services

Team: TBA

Job Title: Senior Data Ops Engineer / Lead Cloud Data Platform Engineer (Specialty Software Engineer 4 - Contingent)

Location: Zone 2 - All 7 Hubs

Contract Length: 12mo

Pay Rate: $81+
Top Requirements:

5+ years Specialty Software Engineering experience (or equivalent work, consulting, training, or military).

Experience working in large data environments (must have).

Recent hands-on experience with AI tools:

• LangChain, LangGraph/ADK, Agentic Frameworks
• RAG / GraphRAG
• MCP for agent-based capabilities

5+ years data engineering with Spark-based ingestion/processing.

3+ years with Data Lakehouse architecture + Python, PySpark, Kafka, Airflow, GCS, BigQuery, DataProc, Cloud Composer.

Hands-on experience building data flows with Kafka, Flink, and Spark streaming.

Plusses:

Experience using AI for code generation, context engineering, and prompt engineering.

Deep background in cloud-based data lakes/warehouses + automated pipelines.

Cloud certifications (Google Cloud Platform, Azure, AWS).

Frontend/UI experience using React and Node.js.

Job Summary:

In this contingent Specialty Software Engineering assignment, the Lead Cloud Data Platform Engineer will work on complex, large-scale initiatives driving the modernization of Wells Fargo's Cyber Security Data Ecosystem. The role centers on building AI-enabled, cloud-native data capabilities on hybrid Google Cloud Platform/Azure infrastructure. This engineer will work on high-impact data products, automation tools, and next-generation analytics leveraging Spark, Flink, Kafka, Google Cloud Platform, and modern agentic AI frameworks. The position requires deep technical expertise, strategic collaboration, and the ability to evaluate and solve multi-faceted engineering challenges while contributing to large-scale planning and transformation efforts.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

• Implement and operationalize AI-enabled data capabilities on Google Cloud.
• Build automated solutions for data governance, lineage, quality, metadata, compliance, and ingestion.
• Collaborate with principal engineers, product managers, and data engineers to plan and deliver key platform capabilities.
• Create and support Spark-based ingestion and data processing pipelines.
• Develop streaming data flows using Kafka, Flink, and Spark Streaming.
• Contribute to Data Lakehouse design using Python, PySpark, Airflow, GCS, BigQuery, DataProc, Cloud Composer.
• Leverage agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph/ADK, RAG, GraphRAG, MCP) for next-gen automation.
• Participate in the migration of data ecosystems from on-prem to Google Cloud Platform/Azure.
• Innovate and evangelize modern data engineering best practices across the team.
• Work in an agile environment delivering high-impact cloud-native data capabilities.

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