Senior AWS Cloud Data Engineer 2 years-long contract role Remote work for the foreseeable future; may require relocation to New Jersey towards the later part of the contract US Citizenship required of Public Trust Clearance For our education technology client in New Jersey, we are looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Data Engineer.
A brief list of responsibilities and required skills is provided below. Please send your resume and financial expectations and we'll call you back ASAP.
Required Skills
- Minimum 2 years of production experience on enterprise-grade operational Data lake formation/implementation and maintenance and at least 5 years of experience in software development
- Hands-on experience developing systems that leverage multiple AWS services including CloudFormation, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB/ any NoSQL, Relational Database Service (RDS), Glue Catalog; ETLs, Athena, and QuickSight for data management and analysis
- Strong expertise ingesting historic and near real-time structured/semi-structured/unstructured data into the data lake
- Strong Experience in working with Data Scientists, Architects, and business experts to clarify requirements for components and features of the Data Lake.
- Design, document and implement solutions to problems involving data Ingestion, Transformation, Cataloging, In-Place Querying, Storage, and Security using AWS tools and best practices
- Experience in migrating legacy systems into an Enterprise Data Lake is a Plus
- Experience in Monitoring and Optimizing the Data lake environments
- Proficient in Python, SQL queries using AWS Athena, and mapping of various relational DB queries to Athena
- Ability to work in an agile collaborative environment
- Preferred - Experience/Exposure to security best practices with Data lake
Job Description: Follow and enforce strict standards for code quality, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code and code maintainability. Use robust debugging skills and knowledge of automated testing platforms and unit tests. Strong analytical skills, problem-solving aptitude, and strong presentation/communication skills.
You may send your resume to applicant@gdii.com
About GDI Infotech:
GDI Infotech is an award-winning Information Technology company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. With our firsthand IT knowledge and 25+ years of experience, we carefully evaluate the technical expertise of our candidates, making us talent acquisition experts in both IT technologies and project management. We have proved our excellence with a wide variety of clients including the State of Michigan, Quicken Loans, Dart Container, and more.