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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Prodigy Resources
- **Location:** Wheat Ridge, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, BigQuery, Software as a Service, Computer Programming, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Validation, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Transformation, Data Security, Data Warehousing, Dimensional Modeling, Distributed Computing Environment, Distributed Data Store, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Metadata Repositories, NoSQL, Operational Databases, Standard Sql, DataOps, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Unstructured Data, Privacy Controls, Data Ingestion, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Generative AI, Git, Event Driven Architecture, Microsoft Fabric, Data Lakes, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Docker, Amazon Redshift, Databricks
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/75681499-data-engineer

## About the Role

* 4+ years of professional Data Engineering or related experience
 * Strong proficiency with SQL
 * Strong programming skills in Python
 * Experience designing and building production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines
 * Experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift, or Microsoft Fabric
 * Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP
 * Experience with data transformation and orchestration technologies such as dbt, Airflow, Dagster, Prefect, or similar
 * Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases
 * Understanding of dimensional modeling, data warehousing, lakehouse architectures, and distributed data processing
 * Experience with technologies such as Spark, Kafka, or similar distributed/streaming platforms
 * Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, Docker, and modern software engineering practices
 * Strong understanding of data quality, lineage, governance, security, and observability
 * Ability to translate business and technical requirements into scalable data solutions

Nice to Have

 * Experience building data infrastructure for AI/ML and Generative AI applications
 * Experience with vector databases, embeddings, or unstructured data pipelines
 * Experience with real-time event-driven architectures
 * Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools
 * Experience with Kubernetes
 * Experience implementing data catalogs, lineage, and governance platforms
 * Experience supporting high-volume or highly distributed data environments

## Description

We're looking for an experienced Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data platforms and pipelines that power analytics, reporting, machine learning, and AI applications.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys solving complex data problems, working with large datasets, and building reliable systems that make data accessible and useful across the organization.

What You'll Do

 * Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines
 * Develop data ingestion and transformation processes across structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources
 * Build and optimize data warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouse architectures
 * Develop reliable batch and real-time/streaming data pipelines
 * Design data models that support analytics, reporting, operational applications, and AI/ML use cases
 * Integrate data from APIs, databases, SaaS platforms, files, and third-party systems
 * Improve data quality, reliability, observability, and performance
 * Build automated processes for data validation, testing, monitoring, and error handling
 * Optimize queries, storage, compute, and pipeline performance
 * Implement appropriate data security, governance, access controls, and privacy standards
 * Partner with data scientists, AI/ML engineers, analysts, software engineers, and business stakeholders
 * Support data infrastructure through CI/CD, infrastructure automation, and modern DataOps practices
 * Troubleshoot complex production data issues and identify opportunities to improve platform scalability and reliability