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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Engineer - **Company:** 3D EXPERIENTIAL LLC - **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $150,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** LTE (Telecommunication), Geographic Information Systems, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Audit Trail, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Data Architecture, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Infrastructure, Data Security, Data Systems, Data Warehousing, Relational Databases, DevOps, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Data Store, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Operational Databases, Role-Based Access Control, Standard Sql, Software Deployment, SQL Databases, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, Data Processing, Apache Spark, Software Troubleshooting, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Production Code, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Video Streaming, Docker, Legacy Systems, Databricks - **Published:** September 17, 2026 - **Apply:** https://mondo.gosnaphop.com/jobs/l/login/c8336608-98ca-11ec-8029-42010a8a0008/22c5cb28-b258-11f1-9a74-024201c20d84/false?applyId=196b2c3d-a712-11f1-8336-024201c20d84&apply=true&returnUrl=%2Fjobs%2Fl%2Frecruiting%2Fjobapplication%2F196b2c3d-a712-11f1-8336-024201c20d84%2F22c5cb28-b258-11f1-9a74-024201c20d84%2Ffalse%3Fstep%3D1 ## About the Role * 5 years of professional data engineering experience, including designing and operating production data platforms * Strong hands-on Python and SQL experience * Strong experience with Spark/PySpark and distributed data processing * Experience with Kafka, event streaming, or comparable streaming technologies * Experience designing and building modern data architectures such as lakehouses, data warehouses, data lakes, or distributed data platforms * Experience with Databricks, dbt, or comparable modern data technologies * Experience integrating multiple data sources including APIs, legacy systems, relational databases, and/or telemetry/IoT data * Experience with AWS, Azure, and/or GCP * Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines and production deployment processes * Understanding of Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native engineering practices * Experience building highly available, observable, production-grade data systems * Understanding of data governance, security, access controls, encryption, lineage, and auditability * Strong troubleshooting, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills * Ability to independently own technical deliverables from design through production * Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills * Comfortable working directly with clients in complex, high-visibility environments * Ability to accommodate approximately 50-75% onsite work in Baltimore through a regular travel/onsite rotation, * Experience supporting government, public-sector, federal-adjacent, defense, infrastructure, healthcare, financial services, or another regulated environment * Experience with Databricks, dbt, Docker, Spark/PySpark, and Kafka * Experience designing secure data platforms subject to regulatory or compliance requirements * Familiarity with HIPAA, CJIS, FERPA, state privacy requirements, or similar security and privacy frameworks * Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud deployments * Experience supporting analytics, GIS, machine learning, or AI applications through robust data infrastructure * Experience with IoT, telemetry, infrastructure, or other complex real-world datasets * Experience working within globally distributed engineering teams * Previous consulting or client-facing engineering experience ## Description Seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join a global technology organization as it expands its U.S. presence and supports a high-impact, federal-adjacent initiative in Baltimore. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing, building, and maintaining secure, scalable data platforms and CI/CD pipelines within a complex client environment. The Data Engineer will work with large and varied datasets across legacy systems, APIs, telemetry/IoT sources, and modern cloud platforms while helping establish reliable infrastructure for analytics and future AI/ML capabilities. The ideal candidate has strong production data engineering experience, thrives in client-facing environments, and can independently solve complex technical problems while collaborating with distributed teams and stakeholders. Day-to-Day Responsibilities: * Design, build, and maintain scalable, production-grade data platforms and pipelines * Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines supporting reliable data engineering deployments * Develop ingestion and transformation pipelines across legacy systems, APIs, IoT/telemetry, relational databases, and other data sources * Design cloud-native architectures supporting batch, streaming, and near-real-time workloads * Build distributed and event-driven data processing solutions using Spark, Kafka, or equivalent technologies * Develop modern lakehouse and data warehouse architectures using technologies such as Databricks and dbt * Write clean, maintainable, production-quality code using Python and SQL * Implement automated testing, monitoring, observability, data-quality validation, lineage, and reliability standards * Build secure and governed data environments incorporating RBAC, encryption, auditability, and access controls * Support data infrastructure that enables analytics and future machine learning and AI use cases * Optimize data platforms for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost * Partner with engineers, data scientists, technical teams, and client stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions * Troubleshoot complex production issues and take ownership of solutions through resolution * Contribute to architectural decisions and the long-term evolution of the data platform ## Related Videos - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Empowering Retail Through Applied Machine Learning](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/976-empowering-retail-through-applied-machine-learning) ## Related Articles - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Making Data Warehouses Fast: A Developer’s Story](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/107-making-data-warehouses-fast-a-developer-s-story)