ApTask

AWS Data Engineer

Newark, NJ • Posted Yesterday
Onsite Contract IT Services and IT Consulting

Job Role: AWS Data Engineer

Location: Newark NJ – Onsite 3 days/week

Employment type: Fulltime / Contract

No of position: 4

Exp. Start date: Nov 3rd week

Year of Experience: 10+ years


CLIENT INTERVIEW will happen F2F in Newark, NJ too.

Role Summary –

Design, develop and support AWS-based data pipelines for enterprise data onboarding, transformation, and consumption. The engineer will work hands-on with Python/PySpark and AWS-native data services to create reliable, scalable, and analytics/AI-ready datasets.


Key Responsibilities -

Data Pipeline Development

  • Develop ingestion and transformation pipelines using AWS Glue, EMR, S3, Python and PySpark.
  • Ingest data from legacy and enterprise source systems into AWS.
  • Develop transformations required to create standardized, consumption-ready datasets.
  • Build and maintain ETL/ELT workflows supporting enterprise data domains.


AWS Data Engineering

  • Work with S3 for data storage and processing.
  • Develop workloads using Glue and EMR.
  • Develop and optimize analytical datasets and workloads involving Redshift and Athena.
  • Support Iceberg-based data structures on S3 where required.
  • Work with other AWS data services such as DynamoDB when appropriate to the solution.


Data Quality & Reliability

  • Implement data validation, reconciliation, and quality checks within pipelines.
  • Identify and resolve data-processing failures and data-quality issues.
  • Support performance optimization of PySpark/SQL workloads and data pipelines.
  • Participate in troubleshooting and production support.


Development & Delivery

  • Develop clean, maintainable, and reusable Python/PySpark code.
  • Perform unit and integration testing.
  • Participate in peer code reviews.
  • Document data flows, mappings, transformations, and technical designs.
  • Work with the Data Engineering Lead and client stakeholders to understand source data and transformation requirements.

AWS Data Engineer in Newark at ApTask

This position is listed as contract and onsite. It was posted yesterday.

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