
Senior Data Engineer – Contractor
Wavicle Data Solutions
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $60 - $70 per hour
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of sources like Hadoop, Spark, AWS Lambda, etc.
- Experience with AWS Cloud on Data Integration with Apache Spark, EMR, Glue, Kafka, Kinesis and Lambda in S3, Redshift, RDS, and MongoDB/DynamoDB ecosystems.
- Strong real-life experience in Python development, especially in PySpark in AWS Cloud environment.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve data integration pipeline.
- Develop pipeline objects using Apache Spark / Pyspark / Python or Scala.
- Design and develop data pipeline architectures using Hadoop, Spark and related AWS Services.
- Load and performance test data pipelines built using the above-mentioned technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, or related field is required.
- 8+ years of hands-on professional work experience with AWS and Python programming, experience with Python frameworks is required
- Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms including AWS and GCP
- Expert level knowledge of using SQL to write complex, highly-optimized queries across large volumes of data.
- Working experience on ETL pipeline implementation using AWS services such as Glue, Lambda, EMR, Shell, S3, SNS, Pyspark, etc. is required.
- Strong knowledge of data warehousing solutions, particularly Amazon Redshift
- Hands-on professional work experience using emerging technologies (Snowflake, Talend, and/or Databricks) is highly desirable.
- Proficiency in DBT for data transformation and modeling
- Experience with automation of data workflows and processes
- Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgement.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and bonuses
- Unlimited paid time off
- Health, retirement, and life insurance plans
- Long-term incentive programs
- Meaningful work that blends innovation and purpose
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonPySparkScalaSQLETLData IntegrationData Pipeline ArchitectureData WarehousingDBTAutomation
Soft Skills
Problem SolvingTroubleshootingJudgement
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster's degree