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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Kforce Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Computing Environment, Cloud Platform System, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Pyspark, Data Pipelines, Amazon Elastic Mapreduce (EMR), Databricks
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/94a05b3a-b1d8-4699-a6ce-06d034d90ac1

## About the Role

* Strong Data Engineer with deep hands-on expertise in Apache Spark/PySpark, AWS EMR, Databricks, and Snowflake
 * To be considered for this position, candidates must have experience in a similar role, or they must possess significant knowledge, experience, and abilities to successfully perform the responsibilities listed
 * Relevant education and/or training will be considered a plus

Should be capable of:

 * Designing and building high-volume, scalable data pipelines
 * Optimizing distributed workloads
 * Implementing robust data quality and observability
 * Troubleshooting complex performance and production issues across cloud-based data platforms

## Description

Kforce's client in NYC is seeking a highly skilled Data Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Apache Spark/PySpark, AWS EMR, Databricks, and Snowflake. The Data Engineer will be responsible for designing and building scalable, high-volume data pipelines, optimizing distributed data processing workloads, implementing data quality and observability frameworks, and resolving complex performance and production challenges across cloud-based data platforms.