Hello There,
Wish you a Happy Wednesday,
My name is Yashmita, and I am a Technical Recruiter at Kanak IT Services LLC. I am reaching out to you regarding the following job opportunity. If you are interested, kindly reply to this email yashmita@kanakits.comย with your updated resume.ย ย
TITLE:ย DATAย ENGINEER III
CONTRACT LENGTH:ย 6 - 12 MONTH CONTRACT, LOOKING TO THEN CONVERT
ONSITE 5 DAYS A WEEK IN DOWNTOWN HOUSTON OFFICE.ย LOOKING FOR HOUSTON LOCAL TALENT.ย
NEED SENIOR CANDIDATES 12+ โ 15+ YEARS OF CANDIDATE
ย Required Qualifications
- 7โ10+ years of experience in Dataย Engineering or closely related Softwareย Engineering roles with a dataย focus.
- Expert-level SQL development and dataย analysis skills, including advanced query optimization and debugging.
- Strong Pythonย engineering skills and familiarity with software design principles and patterns (e.g., SOLID), unit testing, refactoring, and version control.
- Hands-on experience building ELT/ETL pipelines and orchestration with tools such as Astronomer/Airflow; proficiency with Git and CI/CD.
- Deep understanding of core dataย engineering patterns: ingestion, transformation, modeling (dimensional/SCDs), and delivery.
- Proven experience with database physical design including partitioning and effective partition key selection; exposure to clustering and micro-partitioning on MPP/cloud dataย platforms.
- Experience implementing dataย quality frameworks, observability/monitoring, and robust operational SLAs.
- Experience with Lakehouse table formats (Apache Iceberg/Delta/Hudi) and columnar storage (Parquet) on object storage (e.g., AWS S3).
- Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex technical concepts to both technical and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience optimizing Snowflake workloads (compute sizing, tasks/streams, clustering, micro-partitioning).
- Experience with dbt, Dataย Build Tool, or similar for transformation and testing.
- Experience with event streaming (Kafka/Kinesis/Flink) and API-based dataย integration.
- Experience with dataย catalog, governance, and lineage platforms.
- Domain experience in Oil & Gas midstream operations or industrial IoT/time-series data.