Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Data Engineer AWS S3, Iceberg, DynamoDB, Kafka or Glue/Glue Streaming

Location: Dallas, TX or NJ or Remote

Job Type: [Full-Time / Contract]

Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled and proactive Sr. Data Engineer with expertise in cloud-native data platforms and streaming data architectures. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS S3, Apache Iceberg, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Glue/Glue Streaming, Apache Kafka, and and will play a key role in managing and optimizing our data storage at rest for both cache layer and operational data store

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain scalable data at-rest solutions using AWS S3 and Apache Iceberg, and DynamoDB with data exception handling
• Administer and optimize DynamoDB for high-performance, low-latency applications; and Iceberg for operational data store with proper data retention, backup, restore options
• Design and implement the physical data model with operational considerations.
• Collaborate with other data engineers, analyst, architects to support data modeling, , and data ingestion and egress integration efforts.
• Ensure data security, compliance, and governance across all platforms.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues across the data stack.
• Automate database operations using CFT (Cloud Formation Template) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Design and implement Glue or Glue streaming jobs
• Collaborate with DevOps team to promote code into upper environments

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience as a or Data Engineer in cloud environments.
• Strong experience with AWS S3, Apache Iceberg, Amazon DynamoDB, And AWS Glue/Glue streaming
• Proficiency in SQL, NoSQL, and scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or CFT
• Experience with streaming data architectures and data lakehouse implementations.
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Solid experience of data security, encryption, access control, version control, CICD pipeline, DevOps practices, metric tracking, event logs in cloud environments.
• Espouse for Copilot AI on automation, code quality improvement

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Database Specialty, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Experience with Apache Spark, AWS Glue Streaming,
• and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes).
• Experience with multi-region deployments and disaster recovery planning.

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams.
• Self-motivated and have sense of urgency