FocusKPI is looking for a Data Engineer to join our client's growing team and spearhead analyses, providing meaningful insights into their users and product. Work Location: 100% remote and ideally able to work New York EST hours Duration: 5 months/ 40 hrs per week Pay Range: $45 - $55/hr

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Responsibilities: Architect and scale modern data platforms on AWS — Design and build robust, scalable Spark-based ETL/ELT pipelines and data workflows supporting batch and real-time use cases. Own end-to-end data lifecycle management — From ingestion and transformation to modeling, orchestration, and serving layers. Ensure data quality, governance, and reliability — Implement testing frameworks, observability, monitoring, lineage, and data validation practices. Drive platform optimization and cost efficiency — Continuously improve performance, scalability, and cloud cost management across the data ecosystem. Establish engineering best practices — CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, code reviews, documentation standards, and secure data handling. Partner cross-functionally with technical and business stakeholders to translate data needs into reliable, production-grade solutions Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree in the Computer field, which requires logical, creative thinking, STEM majors, MS degree preferred 5+ years of industry experience are required Team's Tech Stack: Spark, Scala, Python, DBT, Airflow, Kafka, AWS EMR, Hive, Redshift, Docker, Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Looker, DynamoDB, GitHub Actions, Terraform Experience with data models Experience with CI/CD Experience collaborating with and understanding the needs of stakeholders from a variety of business functions, including product, marketing, finance, and so on Experience in handling large-scale data with efficiency Strong analytical and problem-solving skills Experience in Financial Services or FinTech preferred

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