Job Description
Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 Months on W2 contract
Job Description
Job Overview
We are currently seeking a dynamic, motivated, and highly experienced individual for the position of Contractor, Senior Data Engineer that is responsible for the design, development, and optimization of enterprise-scale data infrastructure and pipelines. With deep technical expertise and over a decade of experience, this individual supports the engineering strategy, ensures data platform scalability, and delivers high-quality data solutions. This individual excels in technical execution, ensuring data is accessible, reliable, and secure across the organization.
This is a Contract role and not a direct hire with client.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 Months on W2 contract
Job Description
Job Overview
We are currently seeking a dynamic, motivated, and highly experienced individual for the position of Contractor, Senior Data Engineer that is responsible for the design, development, and optimization of enterprise-scale data infrastructure and pipelines. With deep technical expertise and over a decade of experience, this individual supports the engineering strategy, ensures data platform scalability, and delivers high-quality data solutions. This individual excels in technical execution, ensuring data is accessible, reliable, and secure across the organization.
This is a Contract role and not a direct hire with client.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
- Data Pipeline Development
- Design scalable systems and build complex, end-to-end ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to move data from various sources to data warehouses.
- Data Governance & Security
- Enforce strict data quality standards and ensure all system designs meet security compliance requirements.
- Leadership & Strategy
- Mentor junior engineers, translate complex business requirements into technical solutions.
- Performance Optimization
- Continuously monitor and troubleshoot data pipelines and databases to improve processing speed, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Support
- Ensure implemented Data Products meet the vision and goals of Data Consumers.
- Documentation & Best Practices
- Enforce and adhere to best practices for technical documentation related to architecture, transformation logic and coding standards.
Skills:
Must have:
- 10+ years of prior experience as a Data Engineer working directly with Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, ELT/ETL, Data Pipelines
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Languages: Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python
- Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
- Data Warehouses & Frameworks: BigQuery or Redshift.
- Orchestration & Streaming: Apache Airflow, dbt (data build tool).
- US-based, Eastern/Central Time Zone
- Fluent English Speaker
Nice-to-have:
- 15+ years of prior experience as a Data Engineer working directly with Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, ELT/ETL, Data Pipelines
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience optimizing Data Pipelines
- Prior experience working in the Pharma industry
- Experience with BI Tools (e.g. Tableau)
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred
Compensation:
The hourly rate for this position is between $114.82-126.31 per hour.
Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].
Benefits:
Sunrise offers ACA compliant medical coverage/dental insurance/vision insurance to all employees. We also offer Sick time benefits as required per State regulations.
Contact:
Sharath Babu: sharath.b@sunrisesys.com | (732) 395-4575 | URL: www.sunrisesys.com
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Marlborough, MA (Remote) |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $114.82–$126.31 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://www.sunrisesys.com/ |
About Company
Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. More than two and a half decades later, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the staffing industry. Combining our deep industry expertise, insights, and global resources, we have partnered with our clients to connect them with top professionals across several different industries.
We provide cost-effective Managed Staffing Solutions, Information Technology and Information Technology Consulting Services to several Fortune 500 companies and U.S. Government agencies. We provide our clients with flexible engagement models and customized products that are budget and time specific. Understanding the challenges that every business faces, we offer our services either on-site at the clients' site or from one of our globally distributed technology centers. Our onshore and offshore development capabilities ensure that we excel at meeting customer requirements every single time.
Our collective business experience spans over two and a half decades and ranges from:
- Business, management, and technical fields
- Information technology consulting and software solutions.
- Providing strategic support for the development and long-term growth of new business ventures across several industries including but not limited to; accounting, banking, finance, and recruitment.
- Motivating technology staff and establishing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies
Sunrise Systems has a vast range of competence in:
- Design, development, and support of cloud-based solutions from simple to highly complexed
- Database administration of multi-platform applications, complex databases, and web-based environments that include all aspects of installation, planning, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Data processing and data migration
- Application re-engineering and platform migration
- Working with the Information Systems and end-user communities at all levels to resolve issues and establish consensus.
Skills
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)unmatched
- Apacheunmatched
- Best Practicesunmatched
- Biotech and Pharmaceuticalunmatched
- Business Intelligence Softwareunmatched
- Cloud Computingunmatched
- Coding Standardsunmatched
- Computer Scienceunmatched
- Data Managementunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Data Warehousingunmatched
- Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL)unmatched
- English Languageunmatched
- GCP (Good Clinical Practices)unmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
- Performance Tuning/Optimizationunmatched
- Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
- Quality Metricsunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
- Security Complianceunmatched
- State Laws and Regulationsunmatched
- Systems Engineeringunmatched
- Systems Scalabilityunmatched
- Tableauunmatched
- Technical Writingunmatched
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