AWS Data Engineer

Mindsource Inc
Haltom City, TX, United States
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Information Systems Information Engineering Data Integration Extract Transform Load (ETL) Data Systems Data Warehousing Relational Databases Python (Programming Language) Operational Databases
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SQL Databases Data Streaming Scripting Cloud Platform System Data Ingestion AWS Lambda Information Technology AWS Glue AWS Data Analytics Data Pipelines Amazon Elastic Mapreduce (EMR) Amazon Redshift

Job description

We are seeking an experienced AWS Data Engineer to design, build, maintain, and optimize scalable cloud-based data platforms that support enterprise analytics, reporting, operational insights, and business decision-making. This hands-on engineering role is ideal for someone with strong expertise in AWS, SQL, Python, ETL/ELT, and data warehousing who enjoys building reliable, high-performance data pipelines and enabling data-driven business outcomes. The successful candidate will develop and support enterprise-scale data solutions, manage data movement across multiple systems, optimize cloud data environments, and ensure the delivery of trusted, analytics-ready data., * Design, develop, maintain, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.

  • Build automated data ingestion processes from APIs, relational databases, applications, flat files, streaming platforms, and third-party systems.
  • Develop reusable, scalable, and maintainable data integration frameworks.
  • Design, implement, and optimize AWS-based data engineering solutions.
  • Build and support enterprise data lakes and cloud data warehouse environments.
  • Create curated analytical datasets for reporting, business intelligence, and advanced analytics.
  • Monitor production data pipelines, investigate failures, and resolve performance bottlenecks.
  • Implement data quality, validation, governance, lineage, and monitoring processes.
  • Optimize SQL queries and data processing workflows for performance and scalability.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders, data analysts, architects, and engineering teams to deliver high-quality data solutions.
  • Document technical designs, data flows, and operational procedures.
  • Participate in production support, incident management, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or a related role.
  • 5+ years of hands-on SQL experience supporting enterprise-scale environments.
  • Strong Python programming and scripting experience.
  • Experience designing, developing, and supporting production ETL/ELT pipelines.
  • Experience designing and supporting enterprise data warehouse solutions.
  • Experience supporting production data operations, troubleshooting issues, and optimizing performance.
  • Hands-on AWS experience with several of the following services:

  • Amazon S3
  • AWS Glue
  • AWS Lambda
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Amazon Athena
  • Amazon EMR

Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

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