Data Engineer

Posted 3 Days Ago
New York, NY, USA
In-Office
45-55 Hourly
Senior level
Marketing Tech • Business Intelligence
The Role
Design, build, and scale Spark-based ETL/ELT pipelines and AWS data platforms. Own end-to-end data lifecycle, ensure data quality and governance, optimize performance and cost, implement CI/CD and IaC best practices, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver production-grade data solutions.
Summary Generated by Built In
FocusKPI is looking for a Data Engineer to join our client's growing team and spearhead analyses, providing meaningful insights into their users and product.
Work Location: 100% remote and ideally able to work New York EST hours
Duration: 4 months/ 40 hrs per week
Pay Range: $45 - $55/hr
**No C2C resumes are considered**
Responsibilities: 
  • Architect and scale modern data platforms on AWS — Design and build robust, scalable Spark-based ETL/ELT pipelines and data workflows supporting batch and real-time use cases.
  • Own end-to-end data lifecycle management — From ingestion and transformation to modeling, orchestration, and serving layers.
  • Ensure data quality, governance, and reliability — Implement testing frameworks, observability, monitoring, lineage, and data validation practices.
  • Drive platform optimization and cost efficiency — Continuously improve performance, scalability, and cloud cost management across the data ecosystem.
  • Establish engineering best practices — CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, code reviews, documentation standards, and secure data handling.
  • Partner cross-functionally with technical and business stakeholders to translate data needs into reliable, production-grade solutions
Qualifications:
  • Bachelor’s degree in the Computer field, which requires logical, creative thinking, STEM majors, MS degree preferred
  • 5+ years of industry experience are required
  • Team's Tech Stack: Spark, Scala, Python, DBT, Airflow, Kafka, AWS EMR, Hive, Redshift, Docker, Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Looker, DynamoDB, GitHub Actions, Terraform
  • Experience with data models
  • Experience with CI/CD
  • Experience collaborating with and understanding the needs of stakeholders from a variety of business functions, including product, marketing, finance, and so on
  • Experience in handling large-scale data with efficiency
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience in Financial Services or FinTech preferred

**No C2C resumes are considered**
 

Thank you!

FocusKPI Hiring Team

Founded in 2010, FocusKPI, Inc. (FocusKPI) is a data science and technology firm specializing in predictive analytics practice and methodologies. FocusKPI is a US company headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, with an East Coast office in Boston, Massachusetts.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in a computer/STEM field
  • Master's degree (preferred)
  • 5+ years of industry experience
  • Experience with Spark
  • Experience with Scala
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience with DBT
  • Experience with Airflow
  • Experience with Kafka
  • Experience with AWS EMR
  • Experience with Hive
  • Experience with Redshift
  • Experience with Docker
  • Experience with AWS Lambda
  • Experience with AWS SNS
  • Experience with AWS SQS
  • Experience with S3
  • Experience with Looker
  • Experience with DynamoDB
  • Experience with GitHub Actions
  • Experience with Terraform
  • Experience with data models
  • Experience with CI/CD
  • Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders (product, marketing, finance)
  • Experience handling large-scale data efficiently
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience in Financial Services or FinTech
  • Able to work New York EST hours (100% remote role)
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The Company
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
31 Employees
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

FocusKPI brings deep domain experience in business and marketing analytics to enable our clients to unlock growth-driving insights from data. We help our clients develop action-oriented analytics and data science products that are customized to company-specific needs and integrated into their platforms for ongoing use. Our Accelerators, a toolbox of frameworks and models built over 10+ years, fast-track projects by capitalizing on our experience. Capabilities: Predictive Analytics AI / Machine Learning Measurement Text Analysis Key Industries Served: Retail Media B2B & B2C Sales, Marketing, and Merchandising Software & Applications

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