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Data Engineer

Date Posted: Oct 2, 2025

Job #1683731
Contract
Houston, Texas, United States

We have partnered with our client in their search for a Lead Data Engineer in Houston TX

Responsibilities: 

  • Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
  • Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
  • Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
  • Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
  • Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software  Development Life Cycle
  • Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
  • Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect


Skills Required:  
  • Extensive hands-on experience with Scala, Python, and Databricks
  • Experience with AWS services such as SQS, Lambda, S3, and RDS.
  • Advanced proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Python or Java.
Nice to have –
  • Experience with Shell scripting and Unix systems.
  • Proficiency in using Terraform for infrastructure management.
  • Familiarity with modern LLM techniques and practical LLM use case development experience using OpenAI Azure.
  
Education & Work Experience: 
  • Formal training or certification in software engineering concepts with over 10+ years of applied experience. 
  • Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field

 
 
Title: Lead Data Engineer
Location: Wilmington, DE
Client Industry: Fintech
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