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Data Engineer - III
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This role is for a Data Engineer - III with a contract length of "unknown," offering a pay rate of "$XX/hour." Key skills required include ETL development using Databricks, AWS expertise, and proficiency in Python and SQL.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
February 3, 2026
🕒 - Duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location
Unknown
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
New York, NY
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Security #EC2 #Storage #Data Ingestion #AWS Databases #Apache Spark #Deployment #Docker #Agile #Data Architecture #Data Lake #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Spark (Apache Spark) #RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service) #Trino #SQL Queries #Data Analysis #Data Pipeline #Data Processing #Scala #Code Reviews #Databricks #DynamoDB #SaaS (Software as a Service) #Data Engineering #GitLab #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Automation #Debugging #Data Quality #Terraform #Kubernetes #Python #Monitoring #PySpark #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Data Integration #Databases #Programming #Cloud #Computer Science
Role description
Your role as a Senior Data Engineer
• Work on migrating applications from an on-premises location to the cloud service providers.
• Develop products and services on the latest technologies through contributions in development, enhancements, testing and implementation.
• Develop, modify, extend code for building cloud infrastructure, and automate using CI/CD pipeline.
• Partners with business and peers in the pursuit of solutions that achieve business goals through an agile software development methodology.
• Perform problem analysis, data analysis, reporting, and communication.
• Work with peers across the system to define and implement best practices and standards.
• Assess applications and help determine the appropriate application infrastructure patterns.
• Use the best practices and knowledge of internal or external drivers to improve products or services.
Quals--
What we are looking for:
• Hands-on experience in building ETL using Databricks SaaS infrastructure.
• Experience in developing data pipeline solutions to ingest and exploit new and existing data sources.
• Expertise in leveraging SQL, programming language like Python and ETL tools like Databricks
• Perform code reviews to ensure requirements, optimal execution patterns and adherence to established standards.
Computer Science or Equivalent
• Expertise in AWS Compute (EC2, EMR), AWS Storage (S3, EBS), AWS Databases (RDS, DynamoDB), AWS Data Integration (Glue).
• Advanced understanding of Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services.
• Good understanding of AWS Identify and Access management, AWS Networking and AWS Monitoring tools.
• Proficiency in CI/CD and deployment automation using GITLAB pipeline.
• Proficiency in Cloud infrastructure provisioning tools e.g., Terraform.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages e.g., Python, Scala.
• Experience in Starburst, Trino and building SQL queries in federated architecture.
• Good knowledge of Lake house architecture.
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• Design, develop, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks and Apache Spark (PySpark and Scala).
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• Build data ingestion workflows from various sources (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured).
•
• Develop reusable components and frameworks for efficient data processing.
•
• Implement best practices for data quality, validation, and governance.
•
• Collaborate with data architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements.
•
• Tune Spark jobs for performance and scalability in a cloud-based environment.
•
• Maintain robust data lake or Lakehouse architecture.
•
• Ensure high availability, security, and integrity of data pipelines and platforms.
•
• Support troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization in production workloads.
Your role as a Senior Data Engineer
• Work on migrating applications from an on-premises location to the cloud service providers.
• Develop products and services on the latest technologies through contributions in development, enhancements, testing and implementation.
• Develop, modify, extend code for building cloud infrastructure, and automate using CI/CD pipeline.
• Partners with business and peers in the pursuit of solutions that achieve business goals through an agile software development methodology.
• Perform problem analysis, data analysis, reporting, and communication.
• Work with peers across the system to define and implement best practices and standards.
• Assess applications and help determine the appropriate application infrastructure patterns.
• Use the best practices and knowledge of internal or external drivers to improve products or services.
Quals--
What we are looking for:
• Hands-on experience in building ETL using Databricks SaaS infrastructure.
• Experience in developing data pipeline solutions to ingest and exploit new and existing data sources.
• Expertise in leveraging SQL, programming language like Python and ETL tools like Databricks
• Perform code reviews to ensure requirements, optimal execution patterns and adherence to established standards.
Computer Science or Equivalent
• Expertise in AWS Compute (EC2, EMR), AWS Storage (S3, EBS), AWS Databases (RDS, DynamoDB), AWS Data Integration (Glue).
• Advanced understanding of Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of AWS tools and services.
• Good understanding of AWS Identify and Access management, AWS Networking and AWS Monitoring tools.
• Proficiency in CI/CD and deployment automation using GITLAB pipeline.
• Proficiency in Cloud infrastructure provisioning tools e.g., Terraform.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages e.g., Python, Scala.
• Experience in Starburst, Trino and building SQL queries in federated architecture.
• Good knowledge of Lake house architecture.
•
• Design, develop, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks and Apache Spark (PySpark and Scala).
•
• Build data ingestion workflows from various sources (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured).
•
• Develop reusable components and frameworks for efficient data processing.
•
• Implement best practices for data quality, validation, and governance.
•
• Collaborate with data architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements.
•
• Tune Spark jobs for performance and scalability in a cloud-based environment.
•
• Maintain robust data lake or Lakehouse architecture.
•
• Ensure high availability, security, and integrity of data pipelines and platforms.
•
• Support troubleshooting, debugging, and performance optimization in production workloads.






