Position: data engineer
Client: Charles schwab
Location: Lone Tree, CO
Onsite :4 days a week
Interview process: 2 video interviews to hire
Contract: 6 months extendable
Must-have Skills / Experience
• Strong SQL and data warehouse / database development (≈50% of role focus)
• Hands on GCP experience (BigQuery required)
• Python for ETL/data pipelines and loading data into BigQuery (native Python packages)
• Experience designing and building data marts to support reporting and analytics
• Reliable work ethic and proven contractor professionalism
Important / Preferred Skills
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio, etc.) — ~20% of role focus
• Some experience with prompting / AI pipelines and Copilot/Visual Studio workflows — ~20% of role focus
• Prior experience in financial services is desirable but not required
• No requirement for PySpark / Spark or specialized big data tooling for this short term role