Lead Data Engineer (AWS)

Our client is looking Lead Data Engineer (AWS) for Long Term project in Jersey City NJ (Hybrid) below is the detailed requirements.

Job Title : Lead Data Engineer (AWS)

Location : Jersey City NJ (Hybrid)

Duration : Long term

Job description:

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer science or equivalent, with minimum 12+ Years of Overall IT experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS data services - S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, EMR, Lambda, Kinesis
• Proficiency in Python and/or SQL
• Experience with Spark / PySpark
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and lakehouse architectures
• Experience with streaming data pipelines (Kinesis, Kafka)
• Knowledge of IAM, encryption, and AWS security best practices
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments
• Strong leadership.
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers.
• Ability to use strong industry knowledge to relate to customer needs and dissolve customer concerns and high level of focus and attention to detail

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable data pipelines using AWS services
• Architect end-to-end data ingestion, processing, and storage solutions
• Build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, and EMR
• Develop and manage data lakes and warehouses using S3, Redshift, Athena
• Ensure data quality, governance, security, and compliance
• Collaborate with Data Scientists, BI teams, and business stakeholders
• Mentor junior engineers and perform code/design reviews
• Implement CI/CD, monitoring, and cost optimization best practices
• Drive cloud data modernization and migration initiatives