(In person Interview) Data Engineer - Dallas, TX - $50/hr w2

• Must have strong hands-on experience working with Databricks, SQL, and Python to build, support, and optimize enterprise data pipelines in production environments.

• Proven expertise in writing advanced SQL queries using joins, window functions, CTEs, and performance tuning techniques to deliver high-quality and scalable data solutions.

• Strong Python development experience using PySpark and pandas for data processing, automation, transformation, and pipeline development.

• Hands-on experience designing and supporting Medallion Architecture, including Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers to ensure trusted and well-governed analytical datasets.

• Experience with data warehouse and database modeling, including dimensional modeling, normalized schemas, and designing structures that support reporting and analytics.

• Strong understanding of data engineering best practices including data quality validation, monitoring, automated testing, troubleshooting, documentation, and production support.

• Experience developing, maintaining, and optimizing data pipelines while performing root-cause analysis and resolving data issues in complex environments.

• Ability to work closely with Data Engineers, Analysts, and business stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions and trusted datasets.

• Experience working with retail, wholesale distribution, supply chain, inventory, merchandising, pricing, logistics, or sales data domains is highly preferred.

• Familiarity with modern data engineering tools and technologies such as Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark, Unity Catalog, Airflow, Azure Data Factory, Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery is a strong plus.