Data Engineer

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This role is for a Data Engineer with 5+ years of experience, focusing on AWS technologies, data modeling, and ETL pipelines. Contract length is unspecified; pay rate is "unknown." Work is on-site in Arlington, VA or Bellevue, WA.
🌎 - Country
United States
πŸ’± - Currency
$ USD
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πŸ’° - Day rate
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πŸ—“οΈ - Date discovered
May 21, 2025
πŸ•’ - Project duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location type
On-site
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πŸ“„ - Contract type
Unknown
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πŸ”’ - Security clearance
Unknown
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πŸ“ - Location detailed
Bellevue, WA
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Perl #Scripting #Python #ML (Machine Learning) #MySQL #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #Storage #IAM (Identity and Access Management) #Data Engineering #AWS Glue #Lambda (AWS Lambda) #Data Stewardship #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Database Systems #Databases #Oracle #Redshift #PostgreSQL #Big Data #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Data Modeling #Data Dictionary #Scala #Graph Databases #BI (Business Intelligence) #Leadership #S3 (Amazon Simple Storage Service) #Data Pipeline
Role description
Our client is seeking a Data Engineer to join their team. This role is based on-site at our client's location in Arlington, VA or Bellevue, WA. Responsibilities: β€’ Design, implement and maintain data infrastructure including data modeling, ETL pipelines, and ongoing maintenance. β€’ Partner with various teams to build data pipelines from a wide variety of sources using AWS big data technologies (Lake Formation, Glue, S3, MWAA, Lambda, etc.). β€’ Build a data dictionary, catalog and governance plan and manage and audit all of the registered data via mechanisms. β€’ Work with data consumers to provide and correlate the right data for business intelligence and machine learning use-cases. β€’ Develop automated solutions to minimize manual processes with focus on efficiency and scalability. β€’ Provide guidance on data stewardship for teams onboarding to the central data systems. Requirements: β€’ 5+ years of experience in data engineering β€’ Experience engineering, administering and managing multiple relational database flavors (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, SQLServer, PostgreSQL) β€’ Experience with large-scale data analytics and data warehousing β€’ Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in high-pressure situations β€’ Understanding of overall system architecture, scalability, reliability, and performance in a database environment β€’ Experience working directly with customers, resolving database, systems and infrastructure-related issues and also providing systems architecture leadership β€’ 3+ years experience with AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, AWS Glue, EMR, Kinesis, FireHose, Lambda, and IAM roles and permissions β€’ Ideal candidate would have one or more of the following certifications: β€’ AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Assoc. β€’ AWS Certified Developer Assoc. β€’ AWS Certified Solutions Architect Assoc. β€’ AWS Certified Data Engineer Assoc. β€’ AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer Assoc. β€’ Experience analyzing issues holistically, from the application tier through the database, down to the infrastructure β€’ Working knowledge of at least one scripting language (shell, Python, Perl). β€’ Experience with non-relational databases / data stores (object storage, document or key-value stores, graph databases, column-family databases) β€’ Proven experience as a Data Engineer with a track record of building data solutions from the ground up β€’ Coding skills in the procedural language for at least one database engine a must (PL/SQL, T-SQL, redshift SQL, Postgres SQL etc.)