Unknown Company

AWS Data Engineer (Newark)

newark, essex county, nj • Posted 3 days ago
Hybrid Contract General

AWS Data Engineer

  • Newark, NJ (Hybrid – 3 days/week onsite)
  • Long-Term Contract
  • $65 – $80/hr
  • C2C and W2 are fine

About the Role

  • Join a leading financial firm on a long-term contract engagement
  • Design and build scalable batch and real-time data pipelines on AWS

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop batch and real-time data pipelines using AWS Data and Analytics services such as Glue, Athena, Lambda, and Redshift
  • Build complex data processing and ETL jobs using PySpark and SQL
  • Ingest and process structured and semi-structured data
  • Optimize data pipelines for cost efficiency and performance
  • Apply best practices to secure data pipelines and data assets in AWS
  • Support CI/CD processes for data engineering workflows

Required Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with AWS Glue, Athena, Lambda, Redshift, and related AWS data services
  • Strong experience building ETL jobs with PySpark and SQL
  • Experience working with structured and semi-structured data
  • Exposure to data warehouse, data lake, and lakehouse architectures
  • Solid understanding of data modeling techniques
  • Exposure to CI/CD processes
  • Knowledge of AWS data security best practices

Nice to Have

  • Knowledge of data quality and data governance processes

AWS Data Engineer (Newark) in newark at Unknown Company

This position is listed as contract and hybrid.

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