AWS Data Engineer

Position: AWS Data Engineer
Location: Jersey City, NJ & Plano, TX(Day 1 Onsite is Must)
Duration: Contract
Mandatory Skills: Very strong on writing core Java code, AWS Glue, Lambda, S3, EMR, EKS, Spark
Must Have:
* BS/BA degree or equivalent experience

* General: Strong organizational, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills; Strong documentation skills

* Coding: Proficiency in Python & Java

* Cluster Computing frameworks: Proficiency in Spark and Spark SQL

* AWS Data Services: Proficiency in Lake formation, Glue ETL (or) EMR, S3, Glue Catalog, Athena, Kinesis (or) MSK, Airflow (or) Lambda + Step Functions + Event Bridge

* Data De/Serialization: Expertise in at least 2 of the formats: Parquet, Iceberg, AVRO, JSON-LD

* AWS Data Security: Good Understanding of security concepts such as: Lake formation, IAM, Service roles, Encryption, KMS, Secrets Manager.


Good to Have:
* Linux Scripting, Jenkins

* DevOps: Git, CI/CD, JIRA, TDD