Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Axyde Analytics is seeking a senior AWS data engineer to support a federal enterprise analytics platform. The role designs and implements managed-service data ingestion, transformation, data quality, cataloging, and monitoring capabilities using AWS services, while supporting documentation, demonstrations, and production transition.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain secure connections to heterogeneous Government and public data sources
- Ingest structured, semi-structured, and unstructured information
- Configure Amazon S3, AWS Glue Data Catalog, Glue Crawlers, Athena, Step Functions, EventBridge, and approved managed data-preparation services
- Design reusable patterns for JDBC, Oracle, Red Hat/Linux, APIs, files, PDFs, scheduled feeds, and unscheduled uploads
- Incorporate Government-furnished Spark-compatible transformation logic into the approved architecture
- Implement schema inference, standardization, validation, lineage, quality controls, and exception handling
- Detect connection failures, schema changes, stale data, duplicates, prohibited data, and other quality issues
- Support daily refresh requirements and scalable onboarding of new data sources
- Produce technical documentation, runbooks, data dictionaries, and source-to-interface mappings
- Support the live technical demonstration and subsequent production transition
Skills
- Five or more years of senior AWS data-engineering experience
- Strong hands-on experience with S3, Glue, Athena, Step Functions, EventBridge, and AWS-native monitoring
- Experience integrating relational databases, APIs, documents, and mixed-format enterprise data
- Demonstrated experience with data quality, metadata management, schema evolution, lineage, and operational monitoring
- Familiarity with Spark, PySpark, JavaSpark, or Spark transformation patterns
- U.S. citizenship required
- Remote within the United States with occasional travel
- Experience in federal, regulated, or sensitive-data environments strongly preferred
Benefits
- Remote within the United States
- Immediate proposal and demonstration support may be available
- Occasional travel
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