AWS Cloud Data Engineer

Artech LLC

Washington, DC

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$70–$75 Per Hour
SKILLS
AWS Lambda, Agile Programming Methodologies, Algorithms, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Apiary/Beekeeping, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Computer Science, Data Analysis, Data Formats, Data Management, Data Migration, Data Processing, Data Warehousing, Database Design, Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL), Finance, Git, High School Diploma, Jenkins, Maintenance Services, Migration Strategy, Project Evaluation, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Regulations, Requirements Management, Simple Queue Service (SQS), Software Development, Software Engineering, Statistics, Stock Market, Systems Analysis, Testing, Trading/Stockbroking, United States Citizen, XML (EXtensible Markup Language)
LOCATION
Washington, DC
POSTED
17 days ago
Job Title: AWS Cloud Data Engineer
Location: Washington DC (three (3) specific days onsite in the Washington DC)
Duration : 6 Months
 
Salary Range: $70.00 - $75.00/Hour on W2 (Without Benefits).
Applicants must be willing to work on W2.
 
Job Description:
  • Peraton is looking to add a mid-level AWS Cloud Developer contractor to our ongoing development, maintenance, and data engineering team.
  • We support the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Data Engineering and Processing (DEAP) project by providing analyses, solutions and maintenance of many processes that ingest financial market data used across multiple CFTC regulatory and analytical systems, including high volume, mission critical data ingest pipelines.
  • These processes and the data ingested are critical to the mission of the CFTC.
  • This position requires up to three (3) specific days onsite in the Washington DC facility and two (2) teleworking days per week.
  • This is a “contract/temp-to-hire” position in that Peraton desires to convert a successfully performing contractor to a Peraton employee according to their agency’s conversion agreement.
Responsibilities:
  • Serve as a member of an Agile team to provide engineering support and maintenance of services and processes that migrate and promote data and algorithms to the AWS cloud environment and supporting cloud databases.
  • Design, code, test and implement AWS cloud-based solutions
  • Work with the customer and Peraton team on requirements gathering and task estimation.
  • Perform routine data checks, code development and quality checks.
  • Support database planning, design and implementation
  • Support systems analysis, design and implementation
  • Support code reviews and cloud deployments
  • Provide regular status updates on progress both within the Agile framework and via weekly status reporting.
Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science and 5 years of experience or a High School Diploma or equivalent and 9 years of experience
  • Familiar with tools such as AWS API Gateway, Lambda, S3, Git, Jenkins, EC2, Step Function, Hive, Glue Catalog, Spectrum, Athena, S3, SNS SQS
  • Experience with Python, XML
  • Strong experience in analyzing and designing data migration strategies to load data from on-perm data warehouse to cloud data warehouse (Redshift and RDS).
  • Experience in ETL process using AWS resources
  • Industry XML data exchange message formats, required modifications, or extensions
  • Experience/knowledge of XML, FIXML, or FPML is a plus
  • AWS developer certified
  • Financial Industry experience is a plus
  • Must be US Citizen able to obtain CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)) clearance and cannot start before cleared.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Active Public Trust or other active clearance
  • Master’s degree in business, finance, computer science, statistics or related field and 2 years of experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree is a plus
  • Experience working in an Agile software development environment.

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Artech LLC