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# AWS Data Engineer

- **Company:** BIG DATA INC.
- **Location:** Atlanta, GA, United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Big Data, Data as a Services, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Python (Programming Language), Cloud Services, Standard Sql, Enterprise Data Management, Snowflake, Git, Data Lakes, Pyspark, AWS Glue, AWS Data Analytics, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, Amazon Elastic Mapreduce (EMR), Docker
- **Published:** August 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/bfb001ea-bce2-4e31-8ec5-e5f869e820e7

## About the Role

* AWS Glue
 * Amazon EMR
 * Redshift
 * Athena
 * S3
 * Python
 * PySpark
 * SQL
 * Kafka
 * Apache Airflow
 * Docker
 * Git

Preferred Skills

 * Snowflake
 * dbt
 * Iceberg
 * Delta Lake
 * Lambda
 * Step Functions

Mandatory Skills

 * AWS Glue
 * EMR
 * Redshift
 * PySpark
 * SQL
 * Kafka
 * Airflow
 * S3
 * ETL
 * Python

## Description

We are seeking an AWS Data Engineer with expertise in big data processing, cloud-native data engineering, and streaming architecture. The ideal candidate should possess strong experience building enterprise data platforms using AWS analytics services., * Develop scalable AWS data pipelines.

 * Build ETL jobs using AWS Glue.
 * Develop PySpark applications on EMR.
 * Design Redshift data warehouse solutions.
 * Develop streaming pipelines using Kafka.
 * Build data orchestration workflows using Airflow.
 * Optimize cloud data processing.
 * Develop REST APIs for data services.
 * Implement data quality monitoring.


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