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SoftStandard Solutions

Data Engineer

Contract · In Office · USA

Posted Jul 1, 2026

  • Senior Sr. Data Engineer
  • Experience: 7–9 Years
  • Onsite: As per the client's preference
  • Contract: W2
  • Roles & Responsibilities
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines for batch and real-time data processing
  • Architect and manage modern data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse solutions across cloud platforms
  • Develop and maintain ETL/ELT workflows to ingest, transform, and deliver data to downstream consumers
  • Optimize data models, schemas, and query performance for large-scale analytical workloads
  • Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, and business analysts to deliver clean, reliable data products
  • Implement data quality checks, validation frameworks, and observability tooling across pipelines
  • Build and maintain streaming data solutions using Kafka, Spark Streaming, or Flink
  • Enforce data governance, lineage tracking, and security best practices across all data assets
  • Support CI/CD for data pipelines and infrastructure using modern DevOps practices
  • Tools & Technologies
  • Languages: Python, SQL, Scala (preferred)
  • Pipeline / ETL: Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, dbt, Glue, Dataflow
  • Streaming: Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming, Apache Flink
  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (Redshift, S3, Glue, EMR), GCP (BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub), Azure (Synapse, Data Factory, ADLS)
  • Data Warehouse / Lakehouse: Snowflake, Databricks, Delta Lake, BigQuery, Redshift
  • Orchestration: Apache Airflow, Prefect, Dagster
  • Containers: Docker, Kubernetes
  • Version Control & CI/CD: Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform
  • Data Quality: Great Expectations, dbt tests, Monte Carlo
  • Requirements
  • 7–9 years of overall experience in data engineering or software engineering
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and maintaining production-grade data pipelines
  • Strong expertise in at least one major cloud platform — AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Deep knowledge of distributed computing and large-scale data processing using Spark
  • Experience with both batch and real-time streaming data architectures
  • Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent practical experience

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