Remote AWS Data Engineer – 1 year W2 contract
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Senior Data Engineer (W2 Only – Remote, CST/EST Hours)
Location: Remote (Work from Home)
Schedule: CST/EST business hours
Type: 1-Year W2 Contract
Pay Rate: $70–$80/hr (W2 Only – No C2C)
Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Engineer to support a long-term project focused on building a data consolidation tool that integrates diverse datasets from multiple systems into a centralized Snowflake data lake. This role emphasizes query optimization, efficient data flow, and ensuring fast, reliable access to analytics-ready data within a modern AWS-based environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for ingesting and transforming large datasets.
- Optimize SQL queries and Snowflake workflows to enhance performance and minimize costs.
- Integrate data from various sources, including Aurora RDS (PostgreSQL) and Kafka-based streams.
- Collaborate with cloud engineers to manage infrastructure using AWS services such as S3, EKS (Kubernetes), Lambda, and IAM.
- Work in a containerized environment using Kubernetes and Docker for deployment and orchestration.
- Contribute to codebases in Python or Java; familiarity with Node.js is a plus.
Required Skills:
- Strong experience in ETL/ELT pipeline development and data transformation.
- Proficient with Snowflake data warehouse architecture and best practices.
- Expert-level SQL skills and experience with Aurora RDS (PostgreSQL) is a plus
- Hands-on knowledge of AWS cloud services including S3, Lambda, IAM, and EKS.
Nice to Have:
- Experience coding in Node.js (not required)
- Experience with Kafka as part of the data ingestion/processing layer
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and Docker.
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