Senior Data Engineer (Denodo)

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer (Denodo)



Location: Local to NJ - Hybrid preferred, open to Remote



Employment Type: W2 only (No C2C)



Experience: 5+ Years

Position Summary
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Data Engineer with strong Denodo experience to design, build, and maintain scalable virtualized data products and semantic-layer solutions. The ideal candidate will have expertise in data integration, virtualization, API enablement, and cloud-based ETL development.

This role will partner closely with Solution Architects, Tech Leads, AI Engineers, and Business SMEs to deliver trusted, governed, and AI-consumable data assets.

Key Responsibilities

Denodo Development

• Develop and maintain layers of views.
• Build virtualized data products using Denodo best practices, implementing relationships, joins, standardization, and transformations.
• Apply enterprise naming conventions and business metadata standards.

Data Engineering

• Build and support ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS services.
• Integrate data from multiple source systems, APIs, cloud platforms, and operational applications.
• Support creation of canonical data models and semantic-layer entities.
• Develop reusable data transformation components.

Performance Optimization

• Optimize Denodo query performance.
• Implement caching and accelerator strategies.
• Tune joins, aggregations, and virtualized query execution.
• Troubleshoot complex performance and integration issues.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Data Engineering experience.
• 3+ years of Denodo development experience.
• Strong knowledge of: Virtual Data Models, Data Integration, SQL, Data Warehousing, and Dimensional Modeling.
• Experience with: AWS Lambda, ETL/ELT development, APIs and Web Services, and Data Product development.
• Experience implementing: Join strategies, Aggregations, Union operations, and Data standardization frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to AI/Agent engineering ecosystems.
• Exposure to LLMOps concepts.