Senior Data Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Data Engineer role may be hybrid onsite in Wilmington, DE; McLean, VA; Richmond, VA; or New York City, NY. The stated rate is $70–$80 per hour on a W-2 basis. Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm providing technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. The engineer supports a large-scale customer migration and data-load initiative by building and optimizing AWS data pipelines. The role contributes to reliable data processing through event-driven workflows, data quality controls, and operational support.

What you'll do

• Design and maintain AWS pipelines using S3, Glue, Step Functions, and Lambda
• develop Java and Scala services with Spark and PySpark
• implement event-driven architectures
• configure Glue jobs
• establish validation, security, schema-drift, and backfill controls
• integrate external APIs where required
• contribute to CI/CD and Spring Boot repositories
• support runbooks, reruns, and downstream synchronization.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior data engineer

hybrid onsite

eliassen group

w-2

aws

data pipelines

java

scala

spark

pyspark

aws glue

eventbridge

ci/cd

$70–$80/hr

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) with company match, and sick time where required by law for eligible W-2 employees.

Why this role

W-2 basis is required by client requirements; financial-services migration experience and prior Capital One experience are preferred.

About the employer

Eliassen Group is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Facilities Management Services. Sector: 54.