Job#: 3028675 Job Description: Data Engineer
Location: Juno Beach, Florida (Onsite)
Employment Type: Contract
Role Overview
This position is a foundational role within the HR IT and Corporate Services IT organization. The Data Engineer is responsible for building and sustaining the data infrastructure that powers analytics, automation, and AI-driven capabilities across the enterprise. This individual will ensure that data flowing from operational platforms is clean, structured, governed, and ready to support intelligent applications, particularly as the organization advances its AI activation agenda.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that move and transform data from source systems into the cloud platform.
- Ensure data pipelines are reliable, observable, and recoverable, with automated alerting for failures.
- Define and maintain consistent semantic definitions for core HR and Corporate Services entities.
- Build and govern dimensional models and data marts that serve reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.
- Prepare, label, and structure datasets to support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns and LLM grounding.
- Partner with solution architects and AI practitioners to ensure data contracts are well-defined and stable.
- Implement data quality rules, validation checks, and monitoring across the data estate.
- Collaborate with data owners to establish and enforce data standards.
Required Qualifications
Experience: A minimum of 3 years of experience in data engineering, data integration, or a related role. Must include experience with AI development.
Technical Skills: Proficiency in SQL and Python for data transformation and pipeline development. Experience with cloud data platforms is required. Candidates must have an understanding of dimensional modeling, data warehousing concepts, and semantic layer design.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with HR domain business systems such as SAP SuccessFactors or ServiceNow.
- Familiarity with data pipeline frameworks (e.g., Apache Beam, dbt, Dataflow).
- Working knowledge of REST APIs and data exchange patterns (JSON, XML).
- Experience with middleware or integration platforms.
- Exposure to LLM grounding or AI/ML data preparation.
- A Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer certification is considered a plus.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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