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Database Engineer Contractor: 6-9 years (Advanced)

Apolis
  • New York, NY
  • $50–$55 Per Hour
  • Quick Apply
1 day ago

Job Description

ETL Developer
(6-9 years experience)
Remote role
4+ months contract
SkillYears of ExperienceCompanies
Pyspark  
RESTful Web Services  
Infrastructure Engineer - Apache Foundation  
Data Governance5+ 


Additional Details for Role:
Role Description:
• Architect and scale data platforms- Design and evolve enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and storage systems (warehouses/lakehouses), applying strong data modeling techniques to support scalable analytics across diverse data sources.
• Build robust data pipelines and ingestion frameworks - Develop reusable ETL/ELT frameworks and connectors to ingest and process structured and unstructured data using distributed processing systems (e.g., Spark/PySpark) for batch and streaming workloads.
• Develop production-grade data services - Implement reliable backend systems and RESTful APIs in Python, ensuring best practices in code quality, performance optimization, testing, and maintainability.
• Ensure data reliability, governance, and operational excellence - Manage pipeline orchestration, monitoring, and lifecycle using tools like Airflow, while enforcing data quality, lineage, security, and compliance standards.
• Drive end-to-end data engineering projects, solve complex problems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers.

Required Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or equivalent combination of education, training, and hands-on experience
• 5+ years of strong hands-on programming experience in Python, with the ability to build production-grade data pipelines, reusable frameworks, and data processing components
• 4+ years of hands on experience in Spark / PySpark, building and optimizing spark pipelines.
• 2+ years of hands on experience building backend systems, implementing RESTful APIs, API versioning, input validation, pagination, and error standards in Python using FastAPI / Django / Flask
• Exposure to data orchestration and pipeline tools (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, or similar)
 

Numbers & Facts

LocationNew York, NY
IndustryComputer/IT Services
Salary$50–$55 Per Hour
Company Size500 to 999 employees
Websitehttps://www.apolisrises.com/

Benefits

Paid Sick Days, Employee Referral Program, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans

About Company

Since 1996, RJT has provided successful SAP, Oracle, and IT consulting solutions and staffing services to clients around the world. The new Apolis brings you the same personalized service fortified with a greater array of IT solutions, global expertise, and cost-management strategies.

We are a global IT consultancy that seamlessly integrates experts and leading-edge solutions into your organization so you can focus on what really matters.

Skills

  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Best Practicesunmatched
  • Cross-Functionalunmatched
  • Data Managementunmatched
  • Data Modelingunmatched
  • Data Processingunmatched
  • Data Qualityunmatched
  • Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL)unmatched
  • Database Programmingunmatched
  • Distributed Computingunmatched
  • Djangounmatched
  • Engineeringunmatched
  • Flaskunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Paginationunmatched
  • Performance Testingunmatched
  • Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • REST (Representational State Transfer)unmatched
  • Regulatory Complianceunmatched
  • Sales Pipelineunmatched
  • Structured Dataunmatched
  • Technical Leadershipunmatched
  • Unstructured Dataunmatched
  • Warehousingunmatched

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