Tekskills Inc.

Lead Data / AI Native Engineer

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This role is for a Lead Data / AI Native Engineer in O’Fallon, MI, for 12 months at a competitive pay rate. Requires 8+ years in Data Engineering, 3+ years in leadership, and expertise in cloud-native solutions, particularly AWS and Databricks.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
Unknown
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🗓️ - Date
July 21, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
On-site
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
O'Fallon, MO
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#PySpark #AWS (Amazon Web Services) #CLI (Command-Line Interface) #Scala #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Spark (Apache Spark) #Data Engineering #Data Pipeline #Data Ingestion #AWS EMR (Amazon Elastic MapReduce) #Storage #Automation #GitHub #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #Cloud #Databricks
Role description
Job Title : Lead Data / AI Native Engineer Location : O’Fallon, MI USA Duration : 12 months Preferred Qualificatio • n8+ years of Data Engineering and Software Engineering experience • .3+ years leading complex data engineering initiatives or engineering teams • .Proven experience building enterprise scale data platforms and pipelines • .Experience delivering cloud native analytics and AI solutions . Technical Skil • lsBuild highly available, secure, and scalable cloud native data solution • s.Develop ETL/ELT frameworks for ingesting, transforming, and publishing enterprise dat • a.Implement high volume distributed processing using Spark and PySpar • k.Leverage GitHub Copilot, Claude Code CLI, and AI assisted development tools to accelerate engineering productivit • y.Build Proof of Concepts (POCs) and MVPs using AI powered development approache • s.Develop cloud native solutions leveraging AWS and Databricks ecosystem • s.Build scalable architectures for data ingestion, processing, storage, and analytic s. Key Expectati • onsStrong experience in building enterprise grade data pipelines, modern Lakehouse architectures, AI enabled data products, and cloud native platforms leveraging Databricks, AWS EMR, Spark, PySpark, and AI native engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and Claude Co • de.The role aligns with enterprise initiatives around AI assisted engineering, intelligent automation, and AI powered development workfl ows