Data Engineer

Data Engineer

DPP is seeking a Data Engineer for an opportunity with our client, a leading global investment firm. Work location: Onsite in Dallas, TX Duration: 6 months Terms: W2 contract Position description:

The Data Engineer will support the technical execution of a large-scale system migration. This role will focus on the data engineering side to build out infrastructure and support other efforts as needed such as project coordination, data validation, and stakeholder alignment. A successful candidate must have recent relevant mortgage data experience.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain cloud-native data pipelines and data lake architectures (Snowflake) to support ABF investment and portfolio analytics
• Develop and manage scalable ETL/ELT workflows to ingest, transform, and curate data from structured and unstructured sources
• Support analytics and reporting use cases, including data reconciliation, validation, and financial data integrity checks
• Support the migration from legacy systems to a modern data platform, including data mapping, transformation logic, and architecture alignment
• Contribute to light project management activities, including:
  • Breaking down work into Epics/User Stories (Jira)
  • Supporting project planning, timelines, and coordination across teams
  • Assisting with testing, cutover planning, and go-live readiness

Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in solving complex data problems with strong proficiency in:
  • 5+ years of advanced SQL experience with common table expressions (CTEs), complex window functions, conditional logic, joins, aggregations etc.
  • Data cleaning, de-duplication, reconciliation, etc.
  • 5+ years of professional Python development to process complex datasets efficiently, process automations using Polars, Pandas or equivalent
• Demonstrated experience in data engineering, including building, maintaining, and optimizing data pipelines and workflow
• Industry expertise in ABF and mortgage servicing – settlements, remittances/cash consolidation, servicing workflows, etc.
• Good communication skills and change management abilities – align stakeholders and ensure operational readiness of new platform
• Product/Program Management – experience leading a full lifecycle project including driving requirements, design, build, testing, cutover planning, and go-live execution

Education:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Authorized US Worker - US Citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time. Interested? Learn more: Click the apply button or contact our recruiter Harrison at View email address on click.appcast.io to learn more about this position (# 26-00728 ). DP Professionals (DPP) offers a range of compensation and benefits packages to our employees and their eligible dependents. DPP is a certified Woman-owned Small Business Enterprise (WBE and WOSB) with more than 25 years in the staffing industry. EOE/AA/V/D