AWS Data Engineer

Post Date

Jan 07, 2026

Location

Irving,
Texas

ZIP/Postal Code

75039
US
Jun 01, 2026 Insight Global

Job Type

Perm

Category

Data Warehousing

Req #

CLT-89be7f46-dfdf-4277-9f0d-742dcff91fa9

Pay Rate

$160k - $165k (estimate)

Job Description

The AWS Senior Data Engineer will own the planning, design, and implementation of data structures. This role will be responsible for incorporating all internal and external data sources into a robust, scalable, and comprehensive data model within AWS to support business intelligence and analytics needs throughout the company. This person must have experience leading the environment and providing maintenance support when outages occur.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and define business intelligence needs and translate them into data modeling solutions
• Develops, builds and maintains scalable data pipelines, data schema design, and dimensional data modelling in Databricks and AWS for all system data sources, API integrations, and bespoke data ingestion files from external sources. Includes Batch and real-time pipelines.
• Responsible for data cleansing, standardization, and quality control
• Create data models that will support comprehensive data insights, business intelligence tools, and other data science initiatives
• Create data models and ETL procedures with traceability, data lineage and source control
• Design and implement data integration and data quality framework
• Implement data monitoring best practices with trigger based alerts for data processing KPIs and anomalies
• Investigate and remediate data problems, performing and documenting thorough and complete root cause analyses. Make recommendation for mitigation and prevention of future issues.
• Work with Business and IT to assess efficacy of all legacy data sources, making recommendations for migration, anonymization, archival and/or destruction.
• Continually seek to optimize performance through database indexing, query optimization, stored procedures, etc.
• Ensure compliance with data governance and data security requirements, including data life cycle management, purge and traceability

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Required Skills & Experience

• At least 4 years’ experience designing and managing data pipelines, schema modeling, and data processing systems.
• Hands-on expertise with ETL tools to drive scalable data solutions.
• Proficient in Python, with a track record of solving real-world data challenges and advanced automation
• Advanced SQL skills, including experience with database design, query optimization, and stored procedures.
• Strong experience with AWS and loading data into S3 buckets
• Terraform experience

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

- Databricks
- SAP

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.