Senior Data Platform Engineer

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Greenwich, CT, United States
18 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$208,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Continuous Integration Information Engineering Data Governance Data Infrastructure Extract Transform Load (ETL) Database Queries Python (Programming Language) Unstructured Data Git
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Containerization Data Lakes Pyspark Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Collibra AWS Glue Apache Kafka Terraform Data Pipelines

Requirements

Our client is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help build next-generation data infrastructure and AI-enabled workflows. The ideal candidate will be a strong communicator, self-motivated, and enthusiastic about staying current with emerging AI/ML and data platform trends. This is a hybrid position based in New York, NY. Senior Data Platform Engineer’s Responsibilities and Duties:

  • Design, build, and operate a governed, self-service data lake platform using S3 and AWS Glue
  • Implement data governance and fine-grained access control using AWS Lake Formation
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning as code using Terraform
  • Contribute to a GenAI knowledge base platform and RAG-based applications
  • Build real-time streaming pipelines using Kafka as platform needs evolve
  • Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest structured and unstructured data

Senior Data Platform Engineer’s Qualifications and Skills:

  • At least 5 years of hands-on data engineering or data platform experience
  • Strong experience with AWS services, including S3, Glue, Athena, and EMR
  • Experience with data governance tools such as AWS Lake Formation
  • Proficiency in Python and PySpark, with strong SQL skills
  • Experience with Terraform, CI/CD, Git, and containerization

Benefits & conditions

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