EDP Solution Architect

1099/W2/Own Corp no h1b, CPT candidates send linkedin Remote role • 7+ years of progressive experience in data engineering and solution architecture on enterprise data platforms, with significant hands-on delivery experience. • Strong, hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform data services BigQuery (modeling, optimization, cost / performance patterns), Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Dataform, and Cloud Storage. • Demonstrated expertise across the full data management lifecycle conceptual, logical, and physical data modeling; source-to-target mapping; transformation design; and data product structure. • Strong foundation in dimensional modeling and star schemas, metric definitions, and consumption-ready data structures. • Strong SQL skills, including the ability to design and reason about complex queries and transformations on large data sets. • Working knowledge of security and access design on GCP IAM, least-privilege, and domain / dataset-based access concepts. • Demonstrated ability to operate across architecture and implementation defining a design, guiding engineers through it, and reviewing the build against intent. • Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to explain tradeoffs and design decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. Preferred Qualifications • Prior experience on a platform modernization or EDW-to-GCP migration program of comparable scale. • Experience in retail / consumer / omni-channel domains (customer, product, inventory, orders, pricing, promotions, loyalty). • Familiarity with semantic layer concepts, data catalog / metadata platforms, and governance workflows. • Exposure to LLM-enabled or agentic tooling and patterns for AI-ready data products. • Working proficiency in Python for prototyping and pipeline support. • GCP certification, particularly Professional Data Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect.