Need Big Data Engineer - Jersey City, NJ / Des Moines, IA

Role: Sr. Big Data Engineer Location: Jersey City, NJ / Des Moines, IA Duration: Long Term
Notes:
Trino Big Data platform
Happens through memory caching
Moderning the platform
Emr to athena? Maybe more than that moving towards the data lake
Sql from trino to athena
Provide solutions, evaluate the tech stack, move as tech moves,
Already developed an mcp agent/server would be good if they had that experience
Experience with AWS S3, Glue Data Catalog, Athena, etc
Experience with Docker
Experience with Kubernetes
Experience with Jenkins

Description
We are looking for a Senior Big Data Engineer who thinks beyond tickets and task execution. This role is for someone who questions the why, modernizes tech stacks, optimizes performance, and drives outcomes, not just a task executor.
What Youll Do

• Design and build scalable data lakes and pipelines on AWS using cloud-native and automated solutions.
• Enable fast, federated analytics using Amazon Athena and Trino, with performance tuning for large-scale queries.
• Manage metadata, schemas, and discovery using AWS Glue Data Catalog.
• Implement fine-grained data access and governance using AWS Lake Formation, KMS encryption, and SSL.
• Build and operate data services on EKS (Kubernetes).
• Work with the Hadoop ecosystem (Spark, Hive, HDFS) using partitioning, bucketing, and columnar formats (Parquet, ORC).
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex big data issues across pipelines, clusters, and queries.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools.
• Monitor and observe pipelines and clusters using CloudWatch and Grafana.
• Prepare high-quality datasets for AI/ML use cases.
• Build, configure, and operate an MCP server for AI/ML integration.
• Collaborate in Scrum teams; proactively identify gaps and propose out-of-the-box, scalable solutions.

What Were Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in Big Data / Data Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (S3, Glue Data Catalog, Lake Formation, Athena, EMR, EKS).
• Proven experience with Trino (or Presto) and optimizing query performance.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes / EKS for data workloads.
• Strong SQL, Python, and shell scripting skills.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins.
• Experience building and configuring MCP server for AI/ML integration.
• Ownership mindset problem solver, not a task executor.

Required:

• Sr. Big Data Engineer AWS, Hadoop, Athena, Glue (Catalog), Lake Formation, Trino, EKS, AI, CI/CD & MCP Server

Good to Have

• AI/ML data pipeline exposure
• Cloud-native data modernization experience