AWS Data Engineer (Contract) | Beverly Hills, CA (Onsite)

This is a quick moving role and final round in-person with client.

Job role- AWS Data Engineer

Location :: Beverly Hills, CA (Onsite)

Following is the detailed JD-

AWS Data Engineer (Contract) | Beverly Hills, CA (Onsite)

Must-Have Experience

Candidates should demonstrate 15+ years of data engineering experience with depth in:
Cloud data warehouse / lakehouse - Amazon Redshift or Databricks. Real production ownership: modeling, performance tuning, cost management, workload isolation.
Python
Apache Airflow - authoring and operating DAGs at scale; dependency management, retries, SLAs, observability.
dbt - model design, testing, macros, documentation, CI/CD for transformations.
Data movement / ingestion tooling - e.g. Fivetran, Airbyte, AWS DMS, Kafka/Kinesis, or custom CDC and API ingestion frameworks.
Open table formats - Apache Iceberg / Delta Lake / Hudi . Partitioning, schema evolution, compaction, time
travel.
Apache Spark - PySpark or Spark SQL for large-scale batch/streaming transformation.
SQL - advanced, including window functions and query optimization.
Data Governance &
Data quality & observability tooling (Great Expectations, Monte Carlo, Elementary)
Nice-to-Have
AWS ecosystem depth (S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, EMR)
Streaming / near-real-time pipelines
Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), Docker, CI/CD (GitHub Actions