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Position: Lead Data Engineer Location: Hybrid onsite in McLean, VA, Richmond, VA, or Plano, TX Duration: 12+ Months

Position Description:

Our leading Fortune 100 Financial Services client is looking to bring on a Lead Data Engineer to assist with several business critical pushes. In this role you will be contributing a specific line of business of our clients and developing new best practices in data movement and transformation.

Responsibilities:

  • Partner with product owners, peers, and end-users to understand business requirements and identify risk/issues in a timely matter and escalate as necessary.
  • Be the intersection with lines of business, Finance and Technology. The ability to understand various perspectives is critical when optimizing an engineering solution.
  • Provide technical guidance concerning business implications of application development projects
  • Leverage programming skills in open source languages including Python and SQL on various frameworks especially Spark.
  • Manage multiple responsibilities in an unstructured environment where you're empowered to make a difference. In that context, you will be expected to research and develop cutting edge technologies to accomplish your goals.

Required Skills:

  • 8 - 10+ years of related experience.
  • Solid understanding and experience in big data solutions using open-source languages such as Python and SQL on Spark framework.
  • Experience working on data projects and data management involving querying databases and/or transforming legacy data platforms to future data streaming platforms.
  • Solid understanding and experience in Cloud computing, preferably AWS and its services including Glue, EMR/EC2, DynamoDB and Lambda functions.
  • Test Automation.

Desired Skills (not required but candidate will have exposure to these skills in this role):

  • Experience working in Financial Services industry
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