Senior Data Engineer

Avispa Technology invites you to join a collaborative data engineering team building analytics capabilities for a leading music streaming company. This contract role in New York, NY with remote options offers an hourly rate of $60 to $70 and the chance to work with modern cloud and big data technologies alongside cross‑functional partners to turn data into actionable insights.

Benefits

• Group Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Life
• Retirement Savings Program
• PSL

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain scalable, high‑throughput data pipelines and ETL processes, leveraging Spark and similar distributed processing frameworks.
• Design and optimize data models and cloud‑based data warehouses and infrastructure, ensuring data quality, reliability, and performance.
• Develop sophisticated SQL queries and data integration solutions to support analytics, reporting, and business intelligence initiatives.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to consolidate data from multiple sources, troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, and implement scalable data engineering practices.
• Monitor, optimize, and maintain data platforms while researching emerging technologies and contributing to ongoing process improvements.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of data engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong expertise with Python and Apache Spark.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, data modeling, and ETL processes.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable data pipelines.
• Experience with cloud‑based data warehouses such as AWS Redshift, Snowflake, or Teradata.
• Advanced SQL skills.
• Experience with Scala is preferred.
• Experience with Databricks is preferred.

Technologies

• Apache Spark
• Python
• AWS Redshift
• Snowflake
• Teradata
• SQL
• Scala
• Databricks

Shift

Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm