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Tech Lead - Cloud Data Engineering (AWS) - CTH Role

York Solutions, LLCUnited States🇺🇸United States

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeRemote
LocationUnited States
Stakeholder ManagementSQLScalaGitAWSETLComplianceDatabricksGitHub ActionsHadoopJavaPythonTerraformdbt

Job description

(W2) Contract to Hire - 100% Remote role

Title: Tech Lead Data Engineer (AWS, Python, Terraform, S3)

  • Must want a technical lead role: Comfortable owning technical decisions, guiding implementation, and managing stakeholders. This is not an individual contributor role.

  • Strong hands-on AWS and Python experience: Databricks and dbt are not required.

  • Show personal ownership: Give specific examples of architecture decisions, troubleshooting, and improvements they personally drove.

  • Communicate clearly: Explain what they did, why they chose that approach, and the outcome.

The environment is heavily AWS-native and currently leverages Python, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, Aurora/Postgres, Terraform, and GitHub Actions. Data arrives primarily through batch/vendor feeds and moves through an ingestion workflow that performs validation and transformation before publishing full and incremental datasets for downstream consumption.

Key Skills:

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS terraform
  • Data Storage: Data lakes, data warehouses, cloud storage service (S3)
  • Data Pipelines: Developing and maintaining data pipelines for ETL processes leveraging GitHub Actions for promotions of code assets.
  • Programming Languages: Python, Java, Scala
  • Data Management Systems: SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Postgress
  • Data Security and Governance: Understanding of data security best practices and compliance regulations.
  • Problem-Solving and Analytical Skills: Ability to troubleshoot issues and analyze data to identify patterns and trends.

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