Principal Big Data Engineer

Immediate need for a talented Principal Big Data Engineer. This is a 12+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Durham, NC(Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested. Job ID: 25-94747 Pay Range: $63 - $73 /hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location). Key Responsibilities: • We are seeking a highly motivated Data Engineer to join the Data Aggregation team. • Data Aggregation is a growing area and we are looking for a skilled engineer to drive design and development of industry leading external facing API solutions. • The comprehensive API / data solutions will seek to bring together retail, clearing and custody capabilities to help external fintech partners with the financial goal planning, investment advice and financial projections capabilities to better serve our clients and more efficiently partner with them to accomplish their financial objectives. Key Requirements and Technology Experience: • Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required with 10 years of working experience • Big Data Processing: Apache Spark (EMR), Scala, distributed computing, performance optimization • Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (S3, EMR, EC2, Lambda, Step Functions), multi-region DR strategy • Databases: Cassandra/YugaByte (NoSQL), Oracle, PostgreSQL, • Snowflake Data Pipeline: ETL design, API integration, batch processing • DevOps & CI/CD: Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Git • Monitoring & Observability: Splunk, Datadog APM, Grafana, CloudWatch • Orchestration: Control-M job scheduling, workflow automation • Financial domain experience Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration. Pyramid Consulting, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. By applying to our jobs you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from Pyramid Consulting, Inc. and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy here.