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Job Description
This is a contract Senior Data Engineer role with a hybrid schedule based in Jersey City, NJ. The position focuses on hands-on development and operations across Apache Airflow DAGs, dbt Core, and Kubernetes/OpenShift in an on-prem environment supporting financial and accounting platforms.
Role Overview
You will build, operate, and optimize scalable data pipelines that support financial/accounting platforms. The work includes workflow orchestration, data modeling, performance tuning, and managing distributed workloads in containerized environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and optimize scalable data pipelines supporting financial and accounting platforms
- Support enterprise system migrations and high-volume data processing workloads
- Perform workflow orchestration
- Conduct data modeling
- Handle performance tuning
- Manage distributed workloads in containerized environments, aligned with Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment needs
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on experience developing Apache Airflow DAGs
- Experience with dbt Core
- Experience with Kubernetes
- On-prem OpenShift experience
- 10+ years of professional experience in data engineering, designing and supporting enterprise-scale data platforms in production environments
- Hands-on experience deploying DBT and Apache Airflow on Kubernetes, specifically within an on-prem OpenShift environment
- Strong working knowledge involving infrastructure, including Kubernetes operations, Airflow design and implementation, and hands-on dbt model development in an on-prem setup
- Deeper, practical experience with dbt and Airflow within Kubernetes-based, on-prem environments
Technologies
- Apache Airflow
- dbt Core
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
Location and Schedule
- Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid)
- 3 days a week in-office
Contract Details
- Job type: Contract
- Minimum experience: 10 years
- Estimated hourly rate: $75.00
- Estimated maximum hourly rate: $95.00
Benefits
- Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
- MetLife Voluntary Benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- 401K Retirement Savings Plan
- Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
- Referral Bonus Programs
- Certification and training opportunities
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