Job Title: Data Engineer - AI-Ready Enterprise-Scale Data Platforms
Tax Term: W2/1099 Only
Location: Seattle, WA
Employment Type: Contract
Senior Data Engineer AI-Ready Data Platforms Conglomerate IT | Client: a leading global IT & digital engineering consultancy Location: Seattle, WA | Contract | W2 | $75/hr
About the role We're hiring a Senior Data Engineer to design and build enterprise-scale data platforms that power AI/ML and agentic systems. You'll engineer the AI-ready data foundations-high-quality, governed, and optimized-that advanced analytics and autonomous AI agents depend on.
What you'll do
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Architect and build scalable, cloud-native data platforms powering AI/ML and agent-based applications
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Design pipelines that deliver AI-ready data - curated, labeled, contextualized, and feature-rich
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Build robust ingestion, transformation, and serving layers across batch and real-time
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Stand up semantic data models, knowledge graphs, and vector databases to power LLMs and AI agents
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Implement data quality, lineage, and governance frameworks for trust and compliance
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Partner with AI/ML teams on feature engineering, model training, and inference pipelines
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Optimize data architectures for performance, scale, and cost
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Mentor engineers and set best practices for AI-driven data engineering
What you bring
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10+ years in data engineering and platform architecture
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Deep expertise in a major cloud (Azure / AWS / Google Cloud Platform) and modern data ecosystems
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Hands-on experience with AI/ML data pipelines, feature stores, and model lifecycle support
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Experience with LLM data pipelines
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Strong grounding in data governance, metadata management, and security frameworks
Nice to have
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Data platforms for AI agents / agentic workflows
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RAG architectures and semantic search
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Data mesh / domain-oriented data architectures
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Large-scale enterprise transformation programs
Founded in 2014, is a global leader in delivering innovative IT solutions and services. Headquartered in the USA with a presence in the UK, Canada, and India, we specialize in offering industry-leading expertise and cutting-edge products that help our clients maximize their technological investments. Our focus on best-in-class solutions, a highly knowledgeable team, and proactive talent mapping ensure we remain at the forefront of the IT industry.
ConglomerateIT is driven by our Center for Excellence and Innovation, an initiative dedicated to keeping us ahead in a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We understand that building strong relationships is key to our success, and this commitment has enabled us to partner with Fortune 500 companies and leading system integrators worldwide. Our ability to provide local talent on a global scale ensures that we can meet the contingent project requirements of our clients efficiently and effectively.
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