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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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