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# AWS Data Engineer

- **Company:** JSR Tech Consulting
- **Location:** South Orange, NJ, United States
- **Salary:** $135,200.0 - $166,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Data Analysis, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Security, Data Warehousing, Digital Assets, Standard Sql, Data Processing, Build Management, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Semi-structured Data, AWS Data Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75920485-aws-data-engineer

## About the Role

* Hands-on experience with AWS Glue, Athena, Lambda, Redshift, and related AWS data services
 * Strong experience building ETL jobs with PySpark and SQL
 * Experience working with structured and semi-structured data
 * Exposure to data warehouse, data lake, and lakehouse architectures
 * Solid understanding of data modeling techniques
 * Exposure to CI/CD processes
 * Knowledge of AWS data security best practices

Nice to Have

 * Knowledge of data quality and data governance processes

## Description

* Join a leading financial firm on a long-term contract engagement
 * Design and build scalable batch and real-time data pipelines on AWS, * Design and develop batch and real-time data pipelines using AWS Data and Analytics services such as Glue, Athena, Lambda, and Redshift
 * Build complex data processing and ETL jobs using PySpark and SQL
 * Ingest and process structured and semi-structured data
 * Optimize data pipelines for cost efficiency and performance
 * Apply best practices to secure data pipelines and data assets in AWS
 * Support CI/CD processes for data engineering workflows