Senior AWS Data Engineer

Senior AWS Data Engineer / DevOps Engineer Contract Opportunity with a Major Investment Firm Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid – 3 days onsite per week) Join a highly visible Enterprise Data Platform team responsible for designing and building cloud-native data solutions supporting enterprise analytics, governance, and modern data architecture initiatives. You'll work in a cutting-edge AWS environment leveraging advanced data engineering, DevOps, and data governance technologies. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced AWS Data Engineer who enjoys building scalable data pipelines, automating infrastructure, and working across cloud engineering, DevOps, and enterprise data platforms. What You'll Be Working With The environment includes several leading enterprise data management platforms, including: • Informatica Data Catalog • Informatica Data Marketplace • Informatica Data Lineage • Informatica Data Quality • Denodo • Ataccama Experience with any of these platforms is considered a strong plus. Key Responsibilities • Design, develop, and maintain scalable AWS-based data engineering solutions. • Build automated data ingestion pipelines from databases, APIs, file systems, and NAS shares into AWS data lakes and relational databases. • Develop end-to-end data solutions including ingestion, storage, processing, integration, and data access. • Design and implement modern ETL/ELT pipelines. • Build enterprise-scale AWS Data Lake and Data Warehouse solutions. • Develop infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation). • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and CloudBees. • Implement DevOps best practices across AWS environments. • Create automated deployment pipelines integrating SonarQube, security scans, and automated testing. • Collaborate with architecture, QA, product, and engineering teams throughout the SDLC. • Participate in Agile ceremonies including estimation, planning, code reviews, and sprint execution. • Troubleshoot application and pipeline performance issues. • Document technical designs, implementation decisions, issues, and lessons learned. • Stay current with emerging AWS technologies and engineering best practices. Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related field. • 8+ years of Data Engineering experience. • AWS Solutions Architect or AWS Developer Certification (required). • Strong experience building cloud-native data platforms on AWS. • Experience developing enterprise data ingestion pipelines. • Strong Python, SQL, and Shell scripting experience. • Experience with AWS Data Lake and Data Warehouse architectures. • Experience implementing ETL/ELT solutions. • Strong DevOps experience with CI/CD automation. Hands-on experience with AWS services including: • CloudFormation • S3 • Athena • Glue • Glue DataBrew • EMR / Spark • RDS • Aurora • Redshift • DynamoDB • Lambda • Step Functions • IAM • KMS • Secrets Manager • EventBridge • EC2 • SQS • SNS • Lake Formation • CloudWatch • CloudTrail • DataSync • DMS Preferred Experience • Amazon Kinesis • AWS Managed Airflow • AWS Managed Kafka (MSK) • Redshift RBAC • AWS IAM security models • Jenkins • CloudBees • Bitbucket • Docker • Maven • Gradle • MS Build • SonarQube • Artifactory • Jira • Confluence • Groovy scripting • API deployment automation