Python AWS developer/ data engineer (Only on W2/1099, US independent visa candidates only)

Need independent visa candidates who can work on W2/1099.

Required Technical Skills 

Programming 

• Strong Python programming skills.  

• Experience building production-grade data engineering solutions.  

• Knowledge of object-oriented design, testing, and clean coding practices.  

AWS 

Hands-on experience with several of the following: 

• S3  

• Glue  

• Lambda  

• EMR  

• Athena  

• Redshift  

• RDS  

• Step Functions  

• EventBridge  

• CloudWatch  

• IAM  

• ECS/EKS (preferred)  

Data Engineering 

• ETL/ELT pipeline development  

• Data warehousing concepts  

• Batch and streaming data processing  

• Data modeling  

• Data validation and quality frameworks  

• Metadata and lineage concepts  

Databases 

• Advanced SQL  

• PostgreSQL  

• MySQL  

• Redshift  

• Performance tuning and query optimization  

Development Practices 

• Git  

• CI/CD pipelines  

• Unit testing  

• Docker  

• Agile/Scrum development  

Preferred Skills 

• Apache Spark or PySpark  

• Kafka or Kinesis  

• Airflow or AWS Managed Workflows  

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)  

• Data Lake architecture  

• Lakehouse concepts  

• Experience supporting Machine Learning data pipelines  

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools  

Desired Experience 

• 6–10 years of experience in Data Engineering.  

• Experience building cloud-native data platforms on AWS.  

• Experience handling large-scale structured and semi-structured datasets.  

• Strong understanding of distributed data processing and performance optimization.  

• Experience working in enterprise production environments with high availability requirements.