Cloud Data engineer

Title: Cloud Data Engineer

Location: Trenton, NJ (Hybrid - 2 days remote per week)|

12+ Months Extendable Contract

Rate- $60/hr W2 (Need GC or Citizen)

Job Description:-

It is a strong possibility for extension beyond the stated date above.

This will be onsite immediately. Schedule is hybrid, 3 days onsite and 2 days remote per week

Description:

Cloud Data Engineer that will assist in maintaining, and monitoring infrastructure as well as build or assist in building data transformation pipelines. Candidate must have prior experience with AWS or Azure and extensive knowledge of python for ETL development. Additional Cloud-based tools experience is important (see skills section)

Additional desired skills include experience with the following:

Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases.

Extensive experience leveraging Python to build data transformation pipelines (ETL) and experience with libraries such as pandas and numpy.

Experience with pyspark.

Experience using AWS Glue and EMR to construct data pipelines

Experience building and optimizing big data data pipelines, architectures, and datasets.

Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets .

Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency, and workload management.

A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets.

Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable big data data stores.

Strong project management and organizational skills.

Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment.

We are looking for a candidate with 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.

They should also have experience using the following software/tools:

Experience with big data tools: Spark, Kafka,etc.

Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres. Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: AWS Glue, Airflow,etc.

Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift

Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.

Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, etc.

Skillset Required:-..

Need 5 yrs of Prior experience with writing and debugging python

Need 5 yrs of Prior experience with building data pipelines.

Need 3 yrs of Prior experience Data lakes in an aws environment

Need 3 yrs of Prior experience with Data warehouse technologies in an aws environment

Need 2 yrs of Prior experience with AWS EMR

Desirable to have 2 yrs of Prior experince with pyspark