Senior Data Engineer

Job Description

Immediate need for a talented Senior Data Engineer. This is a 18+ months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Chandler, AZ (Hybrid). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

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Job ID: 26-34069

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Pay Range: $68/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

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Key Responsibilities:

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• Data Engineering & Pipeline Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines to ingest, process, transform, and integrate structured and unstructured data from multiple enterprise sources using Python, SQL, ETL/ELT frameworks, and data integration technologies.
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• Build reliable data processing workflows to support AI, analytics, automation, and enterprise applications.
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• Data Architecture & AI-Ready Data Preparation: Develop and maintain data models, storage architectures, and data transformation frameworks to organize and prepare enterprise data for AI/GenAI consumption.
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• Work with operational documentation, network configurations, technical standards, policies, logs, telemetry, and runbooks to create structured, searchable, and reusable knowledge assets.
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• Support RAG, embeddings, vector databases, semantic search, and context retrieval use cases.
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• Data Governance & Metadata Management: Implement data governance standards and frameworks covering data quality, metadata management, data lineage, data ownership, stewardship, data classification, retention, and lifecycle management.
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• Establish standards for data definitions, documentation, traceability, and accessibility to ensure enterprise data is accurate, consistent, secure, and suitable for downstream AI applications.
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• Data Quality, Validation & Monitoring: Develop automated data quality checks, validation rules, data profiling, monitoring frameworks, and preventative/detective controls to ensure data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and freshness.
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• Identify upstream data issues, perform root cause analysis, implement remediation strategies, and continuously optimize data pipelines and transformation processes.
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• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Continuous Improvement: Collaborate with engineering, architecture, product, network operations, and governance teams to understand business and technical requirements and translate operational knowledge into reliable data assets.
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• Establish reusable data engineering patterns, documentation standards, and best practices while monitoring data health, pipeline performance, governance compliance, and overall readiness of data for AI-driven solutions.
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Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

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• Key Skills: Spark, Python, Data Modelling, Data Quality
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• Financial services
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• 5+ Years of Spark
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• 5+ years of total Data Engineer experience
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• 3+ years of Data Modelling experience
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Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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