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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Lead Engineer, External Data Analytics - **Company:** NextSource Inc. - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Business Analytics Applications, Software as a Service, Software Quality, Cyber Security, Information Engineering, Data Integrity, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, Performance Tuning, Role-Based Access Control, Aws Command Line Interface (CLI), TypeScript, AWS Cdk, Data Processing, Data Ingestion, Spring Cloud, ReactJS, Grafana, Cloudformation, Data Lakes, Influxdb, Data Analytics, Cloudwatch, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Data Pipelines, Amazon Redshift - **Published:** July 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/7ddcea74-925c-4346-b7bb-2acc1fab3314 ## About the Role * 7+ years designing, building, and operating scalable cloud-native applications, data pipelines, and analytics platforms in high-availability environments. * Full-stack delivery: * Front end: TypeScript + React (analytics dashboards/data-driven UIs). * Back end: Node.js (TypeScript preferred) and Python for APIs, event-driven services, and data processing. * Deep data engineering: design and run ingestion, transformation, and orchestration for real-time and near-real-time workloads; large-volume data experience. * ML/AI in production (now required): implemented ML/AI within analytics platforms (e.g., predictive models, anomaly detection, trend insights), including deployment/monitoring (SageMaker Studio or similar). * AWS expertise: Lambda, SNS/SQS, S3, Redshift, Athena, EMR, Glue, Step Functions, IAM/KMS, CloudWatch; S3 data lakes and performance tuning. * Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CDK/CloudFormation, AWS CLI. * Security & governance: RBAC, secure access patterns, tenant/data protection. * Observability & telemetry: experience with Grafana and InfluxDB (or similar). * Excellent communication, structured problem-solving, and a mission-driven mindset aligned with expanding educational opportunity; U.S. work authorization required. Nice to have * Background building/operating analytics within SaaS and multi-tenant contexts. * Familiarity with cell-based architecture for isolation, fault containment, and horizontal scale. ## Description * Own technical direction and delivery of cloud-native data architectures, real-time telemetry pipelines, APIs, and high-performance analytics dashboards. * Partner closely with domain teams on data ingestion, data quality cleanup, security, and data integrity, then drive visualization on dashboards that scale seamlessly. * Embed observability/monitoring and operational readiness throughout the stack; design for scalability, availability, and reliability from day one. 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