Sr Data Engineer

Overview

Aquent, a leading talent solutions partner, is thrilled to collaborate with a global enterprise at the forefront of innovation, dedicated to shaping the future through advanced technology and impactful data solutions. We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate individual to join a dynamic team, where your expertise will directly contribute to building robust data products and driving strategic decision-making. This is an incredible opportunity to make a tangible impact on large-scale data initiatives, influence architectural patterns, and help craft the next generation of data processing capabilities that power a world-renowned brand.

About the Role:

In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and optimizing data solutions that support critical business functions. You’ll work within an agile environment, collaborating closely with product owners and business partners to translate complex requirements into scalable, high-performance data systems. Your contributions will span the entire data lifecycle, from architectural design and technology evaluation to pipeline implementation and operational excellence, ensuring the delivery of reliable and insightful data products.

What You’ll Do:

• Contribute to the design and implementation of cutting-edge data products and features, collaborating with cross-functional teams in an Agile/Scrum setting.
• Help define and evolve overall architecture, frameworks, and patterns for processing and storing massive data volumes.
• Participate in the evaluation of new technologies, tools, and frameworks focused on high-volume data processing.
• Translate product backlog items into actionable engineering tasks and solutions.
• Implement distributed data processing pipelines using industry-standard tools and languages within the big data ecosystem.
• Develop utilities, user-defined functions, libraries, and frameworks to enhance data flow patterns and efficiency.
• Partner with engineering leads and other teams to ensure the implementation of high-quality solutions and adherence to engineering best practices.
• Build and integrate automated unit tests, actively participating in integration testing efforts.
• Utilize and advance continuous integration and deployment frameworks to streamline development.
• Troubleshoot complex data issues and perform thorough root cause analysis.
• Collaborate across teams to resolve operational and performance challenges in data systems.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in large-scale software development, with at least 5 years specifically in big data.
• Proficiency in programming, with a strong preference for Python or Scala.
• Extensive experience working with big data processing frameworks such as Spark, and data warehousing concepts like Hive.
• Experience with messaging, streaming, and complex event processing tools and frameworks.
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, SQL, and advanced SQL Analytical functions.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools like Apache Airflow.
• Familiarity with source code control tools such as Git.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly.
• A keen interest and proven ability to quickly learn new languages, technologies, and frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience in Agile/Scrum application development methodologies.
• A strong desire to work collaboratively, solve challenging problems, and deliver results in a fast-paced, agile environment.
• Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills.
• A passion for continuous learning and knowledge sharing with peers.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Experience with Java.
• Experience working in a public cloud environment, particularly with major cloud providers and data platforms.
• Experience with cloud-native data warehouse tools.
• Familiarity with NoSQL data stores.
• Experience building RESTful APIs to enable data consumption.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools and automation tools for CI/CD.
• Experience with practices like Continuous Development, Continuous Integration, and Automated Testing.

About Aquent Talent:

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!

Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.