Data Engineer

Job Title: Data Engineer III (W2 only) Location: Austin/Seattle (Hybrid – 3 days a week) Duration: 24 Months Contract Responsibilities: • Develop various facets of data capture, data processing, storage and distribution • Understand and apply AWS standard methodologies and products (compute, storage, databases) • Translate marketing concepts/requirements into functional specifications • Write clean, maintainable and well-tested code • Propose new ways of doing things and contribute to the system architecture • Manage ETL data to and from client’s Group entities to third party solutions • Create and maintain functional utilities (SPAs) that provide point solutions to scale our marketing operations • Develop scalable and highly performant distributed systems with everything this entails (availability, monitoring, resiliency) • Communicate and document solutions and design decisions • Work with business collaborators, analytics, and senior leadership to define and scope solutions that the marketing team can leverage to efficiently scale out our marketing operations Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent related professional experience • 8+ years of development experience, particularly in using marketing acquisition technologies to deliver automation of multiple channels and drive operational efficiencies • 4+ years’ experience with with programming languages such as PHP, Python or Java stack • Experience building data pipelines from multiple sources including APIs, CSV, event streams, NoSQL, etc. using distributed data frameworks • Experience with different aspects of data systems including database design, data ingestion, data modeling, unit testing, performance optimization, SQL etc. • Demonstrable history creating on and leveraging AWS • Experience in batch and/or stream processing (using Spark) and streaming systems/queues such as Kafka or SQS • Daily practice of agile methods including use of sprints, backlog, user stories • Experience with AWS ecosystem or other big data technologies such as EC2, S3, Redshift, Batch, AppFlow • AWS: EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, Cassandra, SQL, Hadoop, Hive, HDFS, Spark, other big data technologies • Understand, Analyze, design, develop, as well as implement RESTful services and APIs About Us: SPECTRAFORCE is one of the fastest-growing workforce solutions firms in the United States. As a diversity-owned business, we place human connection at the heart of everything we do, building strong relationships with both clients and candidates to fill roles successfully. Our teams in North and Central America and India serve more than 150 Fortune clients globally, leveraging custom AI technology to provide direct hire, executive search, nearshoring, offshoring, and project staffing solutions. Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law. Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation. California Applicant Notice: SPECTRAFORCE is committed to complying with the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) effective January 1, 2023; and all data privacy laws in the jurisdictions in which it recruits and hires employees. A Notice to California Job Applicants Regarding the Collection of Personal Information can be located on our website. Applicants with disabilities may access this notice in an alternative format by contacting NAHR@spectraforce.com. LA County, CA Applicant Notice: If you are selected for this position with SPECTRAFORCE, your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of several requirements, including but not limited to, a criminal background check. We consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with all local ordinances and state laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (FCO) and the California Fair Chance Act (FCA). The background check assessment will consider whether a criminal history could reasonably have a direct, adverse impact on the job-related safety, security, trust, regulatory compliance, or suitability for this role. Such findings may result in withdrawal of a conditional job offer. At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.