Senior Cloud Data Engineer

About the role

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Senior Python Developer with our large power and utilities client in Charlotte, NC. This is a 12-month contract with a potential for extension.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and support cloud-native software and platform services.
• Build APIs, automation services, and self-service tooling for platform consumers.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and improve observability.
• Translate ambiguous business needs into scalable, enterprise-ready solutions.
• Recommend architecture and design approaches that hold up across many consuming teams.
• Contribute to reusable engineering patterns and platform standards.
• Act as an active, engaged participant in virtual meetings (camera on, prepared, contributing).
• Proactively communicate status, blockers, and risks.
• Drive and participate in technical discussions, design reviews, and troubleshooting sessions over Teams/virtual channels.
• Write clear, concise documentation and async updates for distributed teammates.
• Build trust and rapport with distributed teammates and stakeholders through consistent, professional, and personable communication.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Software, Cloud, or Platform Engineering.
• Senior Engineer level trending toward Lead; must show leadership without formal management title.
• Strong, current hands-on coding in Python and/or Java; must pass live coding assessment.
• Hands-on AWS experience building enterprise-scale platforms (not just usage/consumption).
• Experience developing both Data Lake and Data Pipeline solutions.
• Proficiency with Terraform (Enterprise) – able to write, debug, and explain modules/providers.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Ability to explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
• Located in or willing to relocate to the Charlotte, NC area (hybrid role).

Skills

• AWS Services:
  • Compute & Containers: Lambda, EKS, Docker
  • Storage & Data: S3, RDS/PostgreSQL, Glue (Catalog, ETL, Crawler), Athena, Lake Formation
  • Security & Access: IAM, Secrets Manager, API Gateway
• Platform & Software Engineering:
  • Languages: Python, Java, SQL
  • Infrastructure: Terraform Enterprise, Infrastructure as Code, Git
  • Delivery: CI/CD pipelines, API design, microservices, event-driven architecture
  • Data Tools: Apache Flink, Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, Distributed data systems
  • Preferred: Streaming & Messaging: Kafka, Kafka Schema Registry
  • Additional AWS: Step Functions, SNS, SQS, Aurora, EMR, Redshift, CloudWatch, CloudTrail
  • Tooling: Concourse, Vault/Secrets Management platforms
  • Architecture: Cloud migration experience, Kubernetes-based microservices, observability/monitoring

Pay

$81.00 - $91.00/hr; W2 contract

Benefits

No PTO, no traditional benefits; ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment.

Schedule

Must be reliably available and responsive during core team hours (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET); required to be in office 3 days a