Data Engineer.........Hanover, MD - CTH

Role: Data Engineer

Location: Hanover, MD

Duration: 6 months CTH

Mandatory Skills/Competencies:

• Bachelor s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in Data Engineering developing production-grade data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration solutions.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python (PySpark proficiency will be an added advantage).
• Strong hands-on experience building data pipelines
• Experience working with different data sources (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured).
• Strong hands-on capability in at least one of the following platform areas
• AWS Data Engineering (S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, Kinesis, SNS/SQS, EMR, Athena, Quicksight)
• Azure Data Engineering (ADLS Gen2, Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, Power BI)
• Google Cloud Platform Data Engineering (BigQuery, Data Storage, Dataproc, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, Datastream)
• Snowflake (Snowpipe, Streams and Tasks, COPY command, dynamic tables, timetravel, Snowpark, Cortex)
• Matillion (pipeline design, orchestration, parameterization, environment promotion, error handling, and operational monitoring)
• Databricks
• Informatica / IICS
• Curious and growth mindset, meticulous, strong problem-solving, and excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Passion for staying updated with the latest cloud and AI/ML technologies and ability to evaluate and adopt emerging tools and methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Matillion data engineering certifications such as:
• Matillion ETL Foundations Certification
• Matillion Data Productivity Cloud Foundations Certification
• Snowflake certifications such as:
• SnowPro Core Certification
• SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer
• Good Understanding of data modelling (Star/Snowflake) and performance tuning