Cypress HCM

Senior Data Engineer I

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This role is for a Senior Data Engineer I, remote (EST/CST), with a contract duration of over 6 months and a pay rate of $100K - $115K plus a 5% bonus. Requires 4+ years in SQL, Java/Groovy, and web services APIs; FinTech experience preferred.
🌎 - Country
United States
πŸ’± - Currency
$ USD
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πŸ’° - Day rate
522
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πŸ—“οΈ - Date
December 4, 2025
πŸ•’ - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Remote
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πŸ“„ - Contract
Unknown
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πŸ”’ - Security
Unknown
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πŸ“ - Location detailed
Illinois, United States
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Storage #Groovy #Data Quality #Agile #SQL (Structured Query Language) #Java #Logging #Scala #dbt (data build tool) #Forecasting #Monitoring #"ETL (Extract #Transform #Load)" #Snowflake #Web Services #Datasets #REST (Representational State Transfer) #Automation #Databases #Cloud #Data Modeling #Computer Science #BI (Business Intelligence) #Data Ingestion #Data Engineering
Role description
Location: Remote EST/CST Employees: 1,000 | Team Size: 5-8 Industry: FinTech | Payments Domain Reports To: Director of Data Seeking a highly self-directed engineer, comfortable-owning end-to-end, and able to manage multiple initiatives while balancing priorities. You’ll work in a fast-paced, collaborative product and engineering team, partnering with engineers, analysts, product leaders, and solution architects to deliver impactful data-driven solutions. Most Important Responsibilities β€’ Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade data platforms that support analytical and operational workloads. β€’ Build and optimize automated data ingestion and transformation workflows for reliability and performance. β€’ Structure, normalize, and model large datasets to enable reporting, forecasting, and business intelligence initiatives. β€’ Continuously improve data quality, system reliability, and platform scalability through proactive monitoring and architectural enhancements. β€’ Investigate and resolve data inconsistencies, pipeline failures, and system performance issues. β€’ Identify system constraints and design forward-looking solutions for scalability and throughput. β€’ Prototype analytical frameworks, automation tools, and data-driven utilities to accelerate insights and efficiency. β€’ Architect and manage cloud-native data workflows, including monitoring, logging, and cloud storage integrations. β€’ Actively participate in agile practices, sprint planning, and process improvement initiatives. β€’ Participate in production support rotations to ensure platform stability and uptime. What you can bring to the table to impact this role, team, and organization: β€’ Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field β€’ 4+ years of advanced experience with relational databases and complex SQL development. β€’ 4+ years of experience with Java or Groovy languages. β€’ 3+ years of experience with web services APIs (SOAP/REST) β€’ 2+ years of experience with data modeling and DBT. β€’ Knowledge of modern platforms including how to design, scale and optimize data systems. Bonus Experience/Skills β€’ Snowflakes Analytics experience Benefits: Medical, Vision, Dental, PTO, Sick Time, HAS, 401K Compensation: 100K – 115K + 5% bonus