Data Engineer - AWS, python

Description: AWS Data Engineer contract position with a major investment firm. Hybrid 3 days/week in Newark, NJ. Qualifications: " Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience " Experience implementing, supporting data lakes, data warehouses and data applications on AWS for large enterprises " Programming experience with Python, Shell scripting and SQL " Solid experience of AWS services such as CloudFormation, S3, Athena, Glue, EMR/Spark, RDS, Redshift, DynamoDB, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM, KMS, SM etc. " Solid experience implementing solutions on AWS based data lakes. " Should have good experience with AWS Services - API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, DynamoDB, S3, Elasticsearch " Serverless application development using AWS Lambda " Experience in AWS data lake/data warehouse/business analytics " Experience in system analysis, design, development, and implementation of data ingestion pipeline in AWS " Knowledge of ETL/ELT " End-to-end data solutions (ingest, storage, integration, processing, access) on AWS " Architect and implement CI/CD strategy for EDP " Implement high velocity streaming solutions using Amazon Kinesis, SQS, and Kafka (preferred) " Migrate data from traditional relational database systems, file systems, NAS shares to AWS relational databases such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, and Redshift " Migrate data from APIs to AWS data lake (S3) and relational databases such as Amazon RDS, Aurora, and Redshift " Implement POCs on any new technology or tools to be implemented on EDP and onboard for real use-case " AWS Solutions Architect or AWS Developer Certification preferred " Good understanding of Lakehouse/data cloud architecture Responsibilities: " Designing, building and maintaining efficient, reusable, and reliable architecture and code. " Build reliable and robust Data ingestion pipelines (within AWS, onprem to AWS ,etc.) " Ensure the best possible performance and quality of high scale data engineering project " Participate in the architecture and system design discussions " Independently perform hands on development and unit testing of the applications. " Collaborate with the development team and build individual components into complex enterprise web systems. " Work in a team environment with product, production operation, QE/QA and cross functional teams to deliver a project throughout the whole software development cycle. " Responsible to identify and resolve any performance issues " Keep up to date with new technology development and implementation " Participate in code review to make sure standards and best practices are met. payrate: 60 - 70 per hour depending on experience #LI-AC1