AWS Lead Data Engineer (AWS | PySpark | Python | Data Lake | Technical Lead)
Infosat IT Services LLC
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Job Details
Skills
- AWS Lead Data Engineer
- Lead Data Engineer
- AWS Data Engineer
- PySpark Engineer
- Python Data Engineer
- AWS Glue
- Data Lake Engineer
- Big Data Engineer
Summary
AWS Lead Data Engineer (AWS | PySpark | Python | Data Lake | Technical Lead)
Client: Confidential
Location: Newark, NJ (Hybrid – Minimum 3 Days Onsite/Week)
Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire (C2H)
Experience: 8+ Years (Lead Level)
Interview Process:
- Round 1: Virtual Technical Interview
- Round 2: Mandatory Onsite Interview (Non-Negotiable)
Important Submission Requirements
- Hybrid role – Minimum 3 days/week onsite in Newark, NJ
- Mandatory onsite interview
- Must have grown from a hands-on Data Engineer into a Lead role
- Candidates must be able to explain real hands-on implementation, architecture decisions, and production experience
Job Summary
Prudential is looking for a hands-on AWS Lead Data Engineer to architect, develop, and optimize enterprise-scale cloud data solutions on AWS. This is a technical leadership role requiring deep expertise in AWS, PySpark, Python, and modern data engineering, along with the ability to mentor a team of Data Engineers while remaining actively involved in solution design and implementation.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience building data lakes, scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, cloud-native architectures, and guiding engineering teams through architecture reviews and best practices.
Required Experience
- 8+ years of Data Engineering
- 3+ years in Lead or Technical Leadership roles
- AWS Cloud Data Engineering
- Data Lake & Data Warehouse Architecture
- Enterprise Data Platforms
- Team Leadership & Mentoring
Roles & Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable AWS data pipelines and data lake architectures.
- Build end-to-end solutions for data ingestion, transformation, storage, and analytics.
- Lead architecture reviews and recommend scalable technical solutions.
- Mentor and guide a team of 4–5 Data Engineers and QA engineers.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders.
- Lead migration from legacy systems to AWS-based data platforms.
- Establish standards for data quality, governance, and security.
- Implement DevOps, CI/CD, and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
- Optimize performance and cost of AWS data solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues and provide technical leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor''s or Master''s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of Data Engineering experience.
- Strong hands-on AWS data engineering expertise.
- Advanced Python and PySpark development.
- Strong SQL skills.
- Experience with AWS Glue, Redshift, S3, Lambda, EMR, Kinesis, Athena, and RDS.
- Experience building enterprise data lakes and ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Proven leadership experience mentoring engineering teams.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Solutions Architect Certification
- AWS Data Engineer Certification
- Experience with real-time streaming technologies
- Knowledge of data governance and security best practices
- Experience with Lakehouse architecture and modern data platforms
- Dice Id: 91162400
- Position Id: 9039449
- Posted 19 hours ago
Company Info
About Infosat IT Services LLC
At Infosat IT, we value the diversity of talents available in the market and it’s importance in the IT industry. We understand the critical need of a strong and dedicated workforce for an organization. Hence, we strive hard to serve our clients with the best in class services. We are a team of dedicated professionals, with an aim to provide One-stop solution to the evaluation and appointment of an efficient workforce. We believe in integrating our resources to help organizations meet their goals. Our passion to achieve excellence is the key to our thousands of satisfied clients around the world.
Your company can rest upon us, the complete responsibility to manage the entire IT department. Out team will undertake the management of your resources to deliver outcomes par excellence. At Infosat IT, we deliver precise and strong technical support in meeting your company’s ultimate target.
Infosat IT also provides short-term placement services, with utmost consistency and high quality. We strive to achieve complete customer satisfaction with our dedicated service. The services we offer includes, IT recruitment, project consulting and advisory, cloud computing, software testing, RPO, salesforce, and staffing solutions.
The Infosat IT team of experts and professionals have an enhanced and experienced operational efficiency. Assisting in planning your business strategies, Infosat IT ensures a steep increase in the overall productivity of our clients.Analyzing the requirements of our clients, and preparing an ideal strategy as per their requirements, is what we excel at. Our team of professionals has expertise in handling the IT requirements of our clients.
Persistent efforts and quality administration can help bring out the true potential in you and your company. Hiring us will lessen your burden, to produce an ideal professional outcome.
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