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The Hollister Group

Data Engineer

Contract · In Office · Boston, Massachusetts (USA)

Posted Jun 30, 2026

***Please note there is an ONSITE INTERVIEW requirement IN BOSTON for this role with no exceptions.

Position Overview:

  • Platform teams are responsible for building and supporting services that enable our
  • development teams to leverage frameworks, tooling, and services across in-house and
  • vendor PaaS/IaaS offerings. They define the architectural direction, best practices, and
  • provide education on these services. This is a contributing role within the Platform Team
  • responsible for a subset of these services, joining a cross-functional team of engineers to help
  • define the architectural direction of the firm, while providing mentorship to junior team
  • members. This role will be responsible for contributing to the design and technical oversight
  • of various project deliveries. This role works hands on with the teams on various technology
  • improvements and evaluations within our environment to enable our business and
  • technology delivery groups. The candidate must have a strong architectural background and
  • be extremely hands-on from a development perspective.
  • The Platform Data team specifically focuses on services that drive our practices around
  • managing and visualizing data. The team is responsible for Snowflake, Tableau,
  • RDBMS systems like SQL Server and Postgres, automation for database deployments against
  • these systems, and, in general, patterns and practices that advance our capability to process
  • data.

What You’ll Do:

  • · Design and mature DataOps services and tooling that support our cloud initiatives
  • · Development of scheduled jobs using Airflow
  • · Development of containers for use with ECS, Fargate, and EKS
  • · Development of data pipeline to feed data from various sources to Apache Kafka and load
  • into Iceberg/snowflake.
  • · Consult on infrastructure projects to fit systems or infrastructure to the technical
  • architecture and the needs of the end user community.

We’re Looking For:

  • · Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment techniques and
  • tooling
  • · Knowledge of application stack architecture (e.g., microservices), PaaS development, and
  • AWS
  • · Familiarity with scripting languages including but not limited to Bash
  • · Expertise in one of the following: python, Go, and/or C#
  • · Experience with Terraform or other IaC tools, (e.g., CloudFormation)
  • · Experience with Apache Kafka and Flink is preferred.
  • · Demonstrated expertise with Kubernetes
  • · Demonstrated expertise with Linux and Docker
  • · Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • · Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills
  • · Ability to multi-task and work on multiple projects
  • · Strong experience with SQL Server, Postgres and snowflake
  • · Strong experience with ETL/ELT techniques
  • Our Commitment to Inclusion & Belonging
  • The Hollister Group is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people who are under-represented in their respective occupations or positions.
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  • #LI-RM1

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Data Engineer

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