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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Collabera
- **Location:** North Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $124,800.0 - $145,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Backup Devices, C++ (Programming Language), Cloud Computing, Databases, Information Engineering, Data Structures, Relational Databases, Linux, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Scientific Computating, SQL Databases, Model Validation, Containerization, Data Management, Docker
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collabera.com/submit-resume/

## About the Role

o Data engineering
o Python
o Relational databases
o SQL
o Experience with staging tables and database update scripts
o Cloud environment experience
Preferred Skills:
o Scientific data management
o Computational chemistry
o AWS EC2
o Docker/containerization
o Linux
Education Requirement:
Master's preferred, along with approximately 5+ years of industry experience.

## Description

Strength in data engineering and Python. Scientific data management or computational chemistry experience is beneficial. Candidate should be able to hit the ground running with limited training.
Day-to-Day Responsibility:
o Create data structures in databases and workflows for online data.
o Work with APIs and triggers from AWS EC2 to query, compute, and write data back to databases.
o Build/model registry, inventory, ontology, and model performance metrics.
o Support ingestion of AI/ML model results, affinity predictions, multiparametric optimization calculations, and scientific computation outputs.
o Support containerization and model deployment.
o Provide documentation and potentially training to support internal containerization efforts., o Python
o C++
o AWS
o Docker
o SQL
o Relational Databases
o Could
o Containerization
o Linux
o Data Management
o Scientific Data management


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