Data Engineer

Mastech Digital provides digital and mainstream technology staff as well as Digital Transformation Services for all American Corporations. We are currently seeking a Data Engineer for our client in the Financial Services domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth. This is a Contract position, and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: Long-term Contract

Salary: $135,000/Annually or $68.00/Hourly

Role: Data Engineer

Primary Skills: SQL

Role Description: The Data Engineer must have 5+ years of experience.

Required Experience and Skills:

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or closely related)

- 5+ years of experience in application and REST API development using Java

- Proven experience writing microservices with Java

- Strong in managing API to database connections using different relational database drivers (Oracle, PostgreSQL, etc.)

- Demonstrated experience developing, debugging and tuning complex SQL statements, PL/SQL packages and procedures

- Hands-on experience building highly resilient, scalable, and efficient solutions using AWS services like Lambda, Glue, step functions, etc.

- Hands-on experience with Aurora Postgres a big plus

- Experience with DevOps or CI/CD Pipelines using Maven, Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub, Ansible, etc.

- Experience in managing high volume customer-facing application traffic for API’s

- Knowledge of Messaging Technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, SNS, SQS)

- Desire and ability to learn and implement new technologies

- Keen ability to see complex challenges from multiple perspectives, and leaning in to solve independently or with others

- Knowledge of how to develop highly scalable distributed systems using Open-Source technologies

- Proven knowledge of AWS via Associate, Professional, or Specialty Certification(s) a big plus

- Ability to validate, monitor, and solve issues during development, testing, or in production

- Excellent communication skills, both through written and verbal channels.

Education: Bachelor’s Degree

Experience: Minimum 5+ years of experience

Travel: No

Local Preferred: Yes

Note: Must be able to work on a W2 basis (No C2C)