Data Platform Engineer

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Title: Data Platform Engineer
Type: Contract to Hire
Location: REMOTE

Overview
Own the multi-stage data pipeline layer that ingests from external sources (BigQuery direct queries, vendor file feeds, APIs) into a governed lake/warehouse. Deliver scaled event-driven integrations; managing ETL for downstream integrations, an event-bus for user engagement services, and API / query access for billions of data points.
Responsibilities

• Design and implement ingestion/connectors (BigQuery direct, CSV?JSON, REST) and normalization into standardized data models.
• Build event-driven jobs and services (Python/Node) that enrich, dedupe, and apply rules; ensure idempotency and safe replays.
• Define data contracts, schema evolution, backfill strategy, and cutover plans; partner with stakeholders on acceptance criteria.
• Operate AWS workloads (EC2, Lambda, AppRunner, RDS, Redshift) with Terraform; secure secrets, roles, and least-privilege access.
• Optimize SQL for MPP systems (Redshift, Snowflake, or similar); profile queries, partition/cluster, and tune materializations.
• Implement observability (logs, metrics, tracing, lineage) and incident response; drive postmortems and remediation.
• Maintain concise documentation of architecture, workflows, standards, and governance.

Required Skills

• 7–10+ years backend/data engineering with production ownership of large event-driven data systems.
• Proficient in Python, Node, and similar toolsets for ETL job implementation; strong testing and reliability toolset.
• Deep AWS experience and Terraform-based IaC; CI/CD for data and application deployments.
• Expert SQL and performance tuning on Redshift, Snowflake, or equivalent.
• Experience delivering idempotent pipelines, restaging/reconciliation, and parity validation against legacy systems.
• Experience in highly-governed environments (HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, etc.).
• Solid security and compliance practices, supporting internal and external audits (SOC 2 ISO 27001, etc.) and remediation.
• Orchestration experience (Airflow or similar), streaming (Kinesis/Kafka/SQS), and dbt or warehouse-centric modeling. (preferred)
• Data quality frameworks, lineage/metadata tooling, and SLA/SLO design. (preferred)
• Exposure to real-time enrichment and rules engines; familiarity with warehouse-native features (tasks/streams). (preferred)

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