Data Engineer III
EPITEC · Birmingham, AL · 3 days ago
Business Development$60–$70/hrContract
About the role
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building large-scale data solutions, developing robust data pipelines, and partnering with business and technical stakeholders to turn data into actionable insights.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain data platforms and data assets supporting analytics and data product initiatives
- Develop scalable data pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data in big data environments
- Build robust, testable solutions using Spark and other modern data engineering technologies
- Design and implement strategic and tactical data stores for enterprise data consumption
- Develop frameworks and microservices that deliver data products to internal consumers
- Partner with Data Scientists, Data Product teams, Data Management, and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality data solutions
- Ensure data quality, integrity, accessibility, and readiness for business use cases
- Translate business requirements into scalable data solutions and engineering designs
- Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders by identifying opportunities to leverage data for strategic decision-making
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
- 8+ years of data engineering, data management, or analytics experience
- Strong experience designing and developing relational data structures
- Proven ability to deliver operational and analytics-focused data assets
Preferred Qualifications
- Financial services or banking industry experience
- Experience supporting large, highly regulated enterprise environments
- Background in Big Data Engineering and Advanced Analytics
- Technical Skills: Apache Spark, Hadoop ecosystem technologies, Airflow, Argo, Luigi, or similar orchestration tools, CI/CD and DevOps practices, Docker and Kubernetes, NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Cassandra, or HBase, Streaming technologies including Kafka, Flink, or Spark Streaming, Data modeling, data warehousing, and data architecture, Business intelligence and reporting solutions
What We're Looking For
- Strong communicator who can work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience delivering scalable data products and data platforms
- Ability to translate business needs into technical data solutions
- Comfortable working with senior leadership and driving data-driven decision making
- Passion for building modern, enterprise-grade data ecosystems