Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer (Contract | 1099)

Senior AWS Redshift Data Engineer on a full-time 1099 contract through the end of the year, based in Austin, TX, with an hourly rate of USD 140 - 173.

Responsibilities

• Lead optimization and ongoing maintenance of large-scale AWS Redshift clusters to ensure robust data warehouse performance and scalable queries (60%)
• Enhance and support ETL pipelines, leveraging Kafka streaming and ECS-based jobs to guarantee timely data delivery and reliability (30%)
• Improve BI performance and data availability for reporting tools, including Looker, to support analytics needs (10%)
• Prepare data assets for AI-enabled applications and MCPs to enable AI workflows
• Collaborate closely with the data engineering and BI teams to align data strategies and delivery

Requirements

• 7–10 years of experience in data engineering, database administration, or related roles
• Must be based in the United States
• Extensive experience optimizing AWS Redshift clusters, including environments with hundreds of terabytes of data
• Strong experience tuning, repairing, and maintaining heavily queried and frequently updated Redshift tables
• Experience configuring and managing Kafka streams
• Experience with Looker or a similar BI platform
• Familiarity with Python and/or AI-enabled data workflows is a strong plus

Technologies

• AWS Redshift
• Kafka
• Amazon ECS
• Looker
• Python