

Kforce Inc
Senior Data Engineer - Remote
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This role is for a Senior Data Engineer (Remote) with a contract length of unspecified duration, offering competitive pay. Requires 5+ years in ETL/ELT data pipelines, strong SQL and BigQuery skills, GCP expertise, and familiarity with Azure billing APIs.
π - Country
United States
π± - Currency
$ USD
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π° - Day rate
384
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ποΈ - Date
May 14, 2026
π - Duration
Unknown
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ποΈ - Location
Remote
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π - Contract
Unknown
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π - Security
Unknown
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π - Location detailed
Austin, TX
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π§ - Skills detailed
#"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #BigQuery #SQL (Structured Query Language) #SaaS (Software as a Service) #GIT #GitHub #Python #Visualization #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #GCP (Google Cloud Platform) #Libraries #Cloud #Data Pipeline #Azure #Terraform #Data Engineering #Docker
Role description
Responsibilities
Kforce has a client seeking a remote Senior Data Engineer to join their team. This person will be working with data regarding all of the client's financials, from 3rd party apps, different vendors, overall cost and revenue etc. They are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to focus on where and how the client can save cost. This team is heavy GCP-focused with Bigquery, and then leveraging visualizations, to present to the executives.
Requirements
β’ 5+ years of experience building production ETL/ELT data pipelines in Python (3.11+)
β’ Strong SQL skills with deep BigQuery experience
β’ Hands-on experience with the Google Cloud Python client libraries
β’ Production experience with Cloud Run Jobs (or equivalent serverless container platforms
β’ Production experience with Google Cloud Workflows
β’ Solid Docker skills
β’ Strong Terraform skills (1.5+)
β’ Comfortable owning a multi-environment Terraform repository end-to-end
β’ Deep working knowledge of GCP
β’ Working knowledge of Azure billing and inventory APIs - Azure is partially used today and expected to grow
β’ Familiarity with the FOCUS billing specification (FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification): canonical columns, how vendor exports map to FOCUS, and the practical quirks - committed-use discounts, credits, taxes, currency conversion, true-ups, and refunds
β’ Understanding of cloud cost concepts
β’ Familiarity with third-party SaaS billing/usage APIs
β’ Demonstrated experience inheriting an undocumented or under-documented production system and getting to operational fluency on your own - reading code, tracing data flows, and reconstructing intent from Git history and Terraform state
β’ Production on-call experience as a solo on-call for a critical system
β’ Strong Git/GitHub workflow discipline
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
By clicking βApply Todayβ you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages or emails from Kforce and its affiliates, and service providers. Note that if you choose to communicate with Kforce via text messaging the frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You will always have the right to cease communicating via text by using key words such as STOP.
Responsibilities
Kforce has a client seeking a remote Senior Data Engineer to join their team. This person will be working with data regarding all of the client's financials, from 3rd party apps, different vendors, overall cost and revenue etc. They are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to focus on where and how the client can save cost. This team is heavy GCP-focused with Bigquery, and then leveraging visualizations, to present to the executives.
Requirements
β’ 5+ years of experience building production ETL/ELT data pipelines in Python (3.11+)
β’ Strong SQL skills with deep BigQuery experience
β’ Hands-on experience with the Google Cloud Python client libraries
β’ Production experience with Cloud Run Jobs (or equivalent serverless container platforms
β’ Production experience with Google Cloud Workflows
β’ Solid Docker skills
β’ Strong Terraform skills (1.5+)
β’ Comfortable owning a multi-environment Terraform repository end-to-end
β’ Deep working knowledge of GCP
β’ Working knowledge of Azure billing and inventory APIs - Azure is partially used today and expected to grow
β’ Familiarity with the FOCUS billing specification (FinOps Open Cost & Usage Specification): canonical columns, how vendor exports map to FOCUS, and the practical quirks - committed-use discounts, credits, taxes, currency conversion, true-ups, and refunds
β’ Understanding of cloud cost concepts
β’ Familiarity with third-party SaaS billing/usage APIs
β’ Demonstrated experience inheriting an undocumented or under-documented production system and getting to operational fluency on your own - reading code, tracing data flows, and reconstructing intent from Git history and Terraform state
β’ Production on-call experience as a solo on-call for a critical system
β’ Strong Git/GitHub workflow discipline
The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.
We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.
Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.
This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.
Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
By clicking βApply Todayβ you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages or emails from Kforce and its affiliates, and service providers. Note that if you choose to communicate with Kforce via text messaging the frequency may vary, and message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You will always have the right to cease communicating via text by using key words such as STOP.






