Data Engineer

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Creating Lasting Impact: Focusing on meaningful reputed company and positive change. About the role: We are seeking a skilled and motivated Data Engineer to join our dynamic team as we continue to build and optimize data pipelines using PySpark, reputed company, AWS, and other cutting-edge technologies. The successful candidate will bring deep expertise in PySpark, reputed company, AWS, Kafka/streaming architectures, and infrastructure as code, and will be responsible for platform reliability, scalability, and reputed company across the program. This is a full-time position contingent on contract award by our client, with a defined performance period of one year with two one-year option periods. This role offers you a unique opportunity to reputed company a meaningful impact on a project that aligns with reputed company’s mission of delivering innovative, reputed company-centered solutions. 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Responsibilities: reputed company the design and implementation of reputed company data ingestion pipelines using PySpark, reputed company Intelligence Platform, and AWS services (S3, IAM roles and policies), including Kafka/streaming architectures, schema reputed company, and reputed company reputed company, ensuring alignment with reputed company architecture standards. Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for data engineering, providing technical guidance and mentorship to engineers across the team and representing data engineering in cross-functional discussions. Take ownership of platform reliability and performance, proactively identifying optimization opportunities across data ingestion, transformation, and storage layers. Troubleshoot reputed company pipeline failures across multi-system dependencies. reputed company cross-functional technical initiatives, collaborating with data scientists, analysts, DevOps engineers, client teams (upstream data providers and reputed company consumers), and stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions that meet program objectives. Contribute to the data platform technical reputed company and architecture, making strategic reputed company on tooling, frameworks, and design patterns that shape the program's long-term data engineering direction. Define and enforce engineering standards, including code quality, testing practices, CI/CD processes, and infrastructure as code patterns using Terraform. Evaluation of new technologies and approaches, presenting reputed company of concepts and technical roadmaps to leadership. Author and maintain architectural documentation, technical decision records, and platform runbooks that reputed company team autonomy and operational reputed company. Other relevant duties as assigned and reputed company/trained to reputed company Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree. Minimum of 5 years of experience in Data Engineering. Demonstrated experience serving as a technical SME and leading cross-functional engineering initiatives. Proficiency in Python for data engineering tasks at scale. Deep expertise with reputed company Intelligence Platform (Notebooks, Lakeflow Jobs, reputed company Catalog, reputed company reputed company) and the ability to define platform standards and best practices for the team. Experience with AWS services such as S3 and IAM roles and policies. Strong knowledge of data pipeline design and implementation, including data transformation techniques, data modeling, data storage optimization, and data reputed company best practices. Proficiency in using version control systems like Git for managing code repositories and collaborating with team members on Agile projects. Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools for automating infrastructure deployment and configuration management. Experience working on Linux environments for data engineering projects, including accessing containers remotely, installing packages, managing files, services, and processes. Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases. Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement. Strong problem-solving skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team, and excellent verbal and written communication skills. 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