Data Engineer

Our client is seeking a Data Engineer for a 6-month contract in Irving, TX. Will be working on an onsite schedule.

***Only W2 candidates accepted***

Job Title: Data Engineer

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in data engineering, including data lake infrastructure, data warehousing, and data analytics tools.
• Cloud data engineering experience on Azure. Deep understanding of Azure services like Data Factory, Databricks, and Machine Learning. Azure certification is a plus.
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Python and PySpark. Proven ability to optimize SQL queries and performance tune data pipelines.
• Experience in building and operating highly available, distributed data pipelines for large-scale data ingestion, processing, and extraction.
• Experience integrating multi-cloud services with on-premises technologies. Strong understanding of data modeling processes.
• Proven ability to solve complex data problems, collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, and deliver high-quality solutions.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Agile experience
• Dataiku
• Power BI

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of ad-hoc data initiatives and platform capabilities while ensuring alignment with business needs and scalability requirements.
• Enhance existing data workflows and systems to improve performance, cost-efficiency, to implement innovative solutions.
• Lead cross-functional projects, collaborating with product managers, analysts, solutions architects, and other stakeholders to define requirements, prioritize tasks, and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders to understand business needs, translate them into technical specifications, and present technical concepts in a clear and concise manner