Director, Data Engineering (Google Cloud Platform)
Austin, TX - USA
Job Summary
At TTEC Digital we coach clients to ensure their employees feel valued and fully supported because an amazing customer experience is an employee-first process. Our vision is the same: a place where employees know they can thrive.
As the Director Data Engineering (GCP) you will lead our Google Cloud data engineering function within the Data and Analytics team. You will play a pivotal highly visible leadership role driving modern data architecture advanced ingestion real-time analytics Generative AI infrastructure and enterprise data governanceall natively powered by Google Cloud Platform.
We are looking for a hands-on strategic technology leader who combines deep GCP technical expertise with a passion for mentoring high-performing engineering teams. You will collaborate closely with client executives lead solution delivery and build scalable business-critical data foundations that power advanced analytics AI/ML and enterprise digital transformations.
- Functional Leadership: Define and execute the technical vision for our GCP Data Engineering functional practice setting standards for data modeling ingestion pipelines lakehouse architectures and cloud cost optimization (FinOps).
- GCP Solution Delivery: Oversee the end-to-end design and deployment of enterprise data platforms using core Google Cloud services including BigQuery Dataflow Dataproc Pub/Sub Dataplex (Knowledge Catalog) and Cloud Storage.
- GenAI & ML Enablement: Partner directly with the Data Science and AI functional practice within the team to design and build production-grade data pipelines vector search infrastructure and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks powered by the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (i.e. Vertex AI) and BigQuery ML.
- Data Governance & Security: Lead the implementation of GCP-native data governance security and compliance frameworksestablishing data lineage row/column-level access control and metadata management via Knowledge Catalog and IAM.
- Client & Executive Partnership: Serve as the GCP Data SME during pre-sales activities client workshops and enterprise delivery engagementstranslating complex business needs into modern GCP and Generative AI architectures.
- Quality & Engineering Excellence: Establish CI/CD IaC (Terraform) continuous data testing and automated monitoring (Dataflow/BigQuery logs) to ensure maximum reliability security and accuracy across client data assets.
- Team Development & Strategy: Manage mentor and scale an agile team of GCP Data Engineers. Drive talent acquisition skill development Google Cloud certification pathways and performance management aligned with practice growth.
- Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related quantitative field.
- Core Experience: 10 years in data engineering and enterprise architecture with 5 years of direct people management experience leading agile engineering teams.
- Deep GCP Mastery: 4 years of hands-on experience designing and building production data solutions natively on Google Cloud (BigQuery Dataflow Pub/Sub Cloud Composer/Airflow Dataproc Cloud Storage).
- Generative AI & Modern Stack Skills: Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python. Practical experience deploying data pipelines for LLMs vector search indexing and GenAI workflows alongside frameworks like Apache Beam PySpark and NoSQL databases.
- Architectural Expertise: Proven track record in modern data modeling ELT/ETL pipeline architecture real-time streaming processing and building Medallion/Lakehouse architectures on cloud.
- DevOps & Governance: Strong understanding of Terraform for GCP infrastructure CI/CD pipelines and enterprise data security practices (IAM KMS Knowledge Catalog governance).
- Client Engagement & Business Acumen: Exceptional presentation consultative and stakeholder management skillswith a demonstrated ability to translate quantitative insights and AI capabilities into strategic business outcomes.
- Certifications: Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification is strongly preferred.
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About Company
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