Job#: 3058560 Job Description: Title: Senior Data Engineer Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan (On-site)Duration: 2+ month to start withRole Overview
The Data Architect / Principal Data Engineer III is responsible for designing, building, and supporting scalable and secure data solutions for enterprise applications. This position focuses on data ingestion, transformation, storage, integration, quality, governance, and processing across both structured and unstructured data sources. The successful candidate will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance data pipelines and robust data models.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable data ingestion and ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Build data solutions for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
- Develop reusable data-processing and transformation components using Python and SQL.
- Design and support data models using PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Amazon S3.
- Support document ingestion and extraction using Amazon Textract, where applicable.
- Prepare and transform data for application, search, analytics, and AI-enabled use cases.
- Support vector-based retrieval using PostgreSQL/pgvector, where required.
- Implement data quality, validation, reconciliation, metadata, lineage, retention, and governance controls.
- Implement secure data access and encryption for sensitive information.
- Optimize data pipelines and databases for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
- Implement monitoring and troubleshoot data-processing and integration issues.
- Collaborate with application, AI, DevOps, architecture, cybersecurity, and business teams.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
Experience: 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, or related professional roles, preferably within large enterprise or regulated environments.
Technical Skills: Strong hands-on experience with Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and S3. Proficient in developing ETL/ELT pipelines and data-processing workflows, data modeling, APIs, JSON, Parquet, and pgvector. Solid understanding of data quality, metadata, governance, security, and operational monitoring. Experience supporting document-processing and AI-enabled data solutions is highly desirable.
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