Senior Data Engineer, Airflow and dbt

Job overview

The Senior Data Engineer, Airflow and dbt, is an onsite role in Jersey City, NJ, paying $58–$60 per hour. The posting describes a W-2 contract through ZipStaff, with no C2C or 1099, supporting a leading healthcare analytics organization’s financial and accounting platforms. ZipStaff connects technology professionals with contract opportunities. The engineer builds and operates enterprise data pipelines, with a focus on orchestration, transformation, and containerized workloads. The role supports reliable financial reporting and regulated data use while applying data-engineering standards, security, and governance.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and maintain Airflow DAGs
• tune performance, dependencies, retries, SLAs, and alerting
• optimize Airflow infrastructure
• lead dbt Core implementation and modeling
• optimize SQL and dbt performance
• deploy data workloads on Kubernetes or OpenShift
• monitor pipeline health with logs, metrics, and alerts
• partner with architects, platform engineers, and business stakeholders
• support financial reporting and regulated data use
• enforce engineering standards, security, and governance.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior data engineer

apache airflow

dbt core

kubernetes

openshift

python

sql

jersey city nj

zipstaff

$58–$60/hour

onsite

healthcare analytics

financial data

w-2 contract

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting requires expert-level Apache Airflow and dbt Core, production Kubernetes or OpenShift experience, strong Python and SQL, and 10 or more years of relevant experience.

About the employer

ZipStaff Inc. is hiring for this role. Industry: Temporary Help Services. Sector: 56.