# Senior Data Engineer – Google Cloud Platform (GCP) (Contract)

SUMMARY: - POSITION INFO: PBT Group is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer with strong Google Cloud Platform (GCP) expertise to join a project focused on designing, developing and optimising scalable, cloud-native data platforms and near-real-time data pipelines. The successful candidate will have extensive experience building highly parallelised, distributed data-processing solutions, with a strong understanding of batch and streaming architectures, event-driven processing and cloud-based data engineering. Key Responsibilities Design, develop and maintain scalable data pipelines and cloud-native data solutions on Google Cloud Platform. Build and optimise batch-processing and near-real-time data pipelines. Design and implement highly parallelised distributed data-processing solutions. Develop and manage workloads using Cloud Run and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Design and implement streaming architectures using Pub\/Sub and Dataflow. Work with large-scale datasets and optimise data processing for performance, scalability and cost efficiency. Implement and maintain data workflows and orchestration solutions. Collaborate with technical teams and stakeholders to deli

- **Id**: 3634546
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/pbt-group-senior-data-engineer-google-cloud-platform-gcp-contract>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Johannesburg, South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-02T00:00:00Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2433
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Analytics & BI Consulting, Data Engineering & Migration Services

## Company

- **Id**: 177436
- **Name**: PBT Group
- **Domain**: pbtgroup.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/pbt-group>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 71
- **Open postings**: 21
- **Ghost share**: 0.381
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.762
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **dbt** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Google BigQuery** — Optional: no
- **Google Cloud Run** — Optional: no
- **Google GKE** — Optional: no
- **Looker** — Optional: no
- **Power BI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-02T20:39:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 93
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.985
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: seen:7, urgency, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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