Senior Data Engineer

  • Glendale, California, United States
  • Leading Client
  • Contractor
  • On-Site

Job Description:

Job Description

  • Job title: Senior Data Engineer
  • Experience: 5-20 Years
  • Location: Glendale, USA
  • Job Type: Contract, On-site


Must Haves:

  • Candidates must be willing to work on W2, no C2C. 
  • 5+ years of data engineering experience specifically developing large-scale data pipelines.
  • Databricks and Python expertise.


Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of data engineering experience developing large data pipelines
  • Proficiency in at least one major programming language.
  • Expertise on databricks and Python.
  • Hands-on production environment experience with distributed processing systems such as Spark
  • Hands-on production experience with data pipeline orchestration systems such as Airflow for creating and maintaining data pipelines
  • Experience with at least one major Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) or cloud database technology (Snowflake, Databricks, Big Query).
  • Experience in developing APIs with GraphQL
  • Advanced understanding of OLTP vs OLAP environment.
  • Strong background in at least one of the following: distributed data processing or software engineering of data services, or data modeling



Key Responsibilities:

  • Contribute to maintaining, updating, and expanding existing Core Data platform data pipelines.
  • Build and maintain APIs to expose data to downstream applications.
  • Develop real-time streaming data pipelines.
  • Tech stack includes Airflow, Spark, Databricks, Delta Lake, and Snowflake.
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineers to drive the success of the Core Data platform.
  • Contribute to developing and documenting both internal and external standards and best practices for pipeline configurations, naming conventions, and more.
  • Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of the Core Data platform datasets to ensure our solutions meet SLAs and project reliability and accuracy to all our stakeholders.