AWS Data Engineer

Position: AWS Data Engineer
Location: Newark, NJ
Work Arrangement: Hybrid – 3 days onsite
Duration: Long Term Contract
Final round must be onsite interview

Qualifications & Key Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience implementing, supporting data lakes, data warehouses and data applications on AWS for large enterprises
• Programming experience with Python, Shell scripting and SQL
• Solid experience of AWS services such as CloudFormation, S3, Athena, Glue, EMR/Spark, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM, KMS, SM etc.
• Solid experience implementing solutions on AWS based data lakes.
• Should have good experience with AWS Services - API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, Elasticsearch
• Serverless application development using AWS Lambda
• Experience in AWS data lake/data warehouse/business analytics
• Experience in system analysis, design, development, and implementation of data ingestion pipeline in AWS
• Knowledge of ETL/ELT
• End-to-end data solutions (ingest, storage, integration, processing, access) on AWS
• Architect and implement CI/CD strategy for EDP
• Implement high velocity streaming solutions using Amazon Kinesis, SQS, and Kafka (preferred)
• Migrate data from traditional relational database systems, file systems, NAS shares to AWS relational databases such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, and Redshift
• Migrate data from APIs to AWS data lake (S3) and relational databases such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, and Redshift
• Implement POCs on any new technology or tools to be implemented on EDP and onboard for real use-case
• AWS Solutions Architect or AWS Developer Certification preferred
• Good understanding of Lakehouse/data cloud architecture

Responsibilities:

• Designing, building and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable architecture and code.
• Build reliable and robust Data ingestion pipelines (within AWS, on prem to AWS, etc.)
• Ensure the best possible performance and quality of high scale data engineering project
• Participate in the architecture and system design discussions
• Independently perform hands on development and unit testing of the applications.
• Collaborate with the development team and build individual components into complex enterprise web systems.
• Work in a team environment with product, production operation, QE/QA and cross functional teams to deliver a project throughout the whole software development cycle.
• Responsible to identify and resolve any performance issues
• Keep up to date with new technology development and implementation
• Participate in code review to make sure standards and best practices are met.

Pay: $85,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• Are you willing to come for F2F interview (2nd or Final Round)?
• Are you local to the location?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Newark, NJ 07102