Jr Data Engineer

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Data Engineer for a top financial services client. This individual contributor will help build scalable AI-enabled services that connect enterprise data with large language models. The position is approximately 60% MCP and API development and 40% data engineering, with responsibility for developing Model Context Protocol solutions, APIs, prompts, and cloud-based data pipelines. The ideal candidate combines strong Python, SQL, AWS, Kafka, and data-modeling experience with hands-win knowledge of API development, LLM integration, and prompt engineering.

This is an excellent opportunity for an engineer who enjoys owning solutions across data ingestion, transformation, AI integration, and downstream delivery.

Skills and Requirements

5+ years of hands-win data engineering experience

3+ years of hands-win AWS experience

Strong understanding of cloud architecture and concepts

Hands-win experience with AWS Glue, S3, Athena, and Redshift.

Experience with APIs and Model Context Protocols (MCPs)

Python development experience and using Pyspark

SQL skills

Apache Kafka experience

Experience building end-to-end data pipelines

Strong knowledge of data domains, data modeling, and data analysis

Experience designing data ingestion, transformation, and delivery workflows

Ability to clearly explain technical decisions through prior project examples

Exposure to GenAI solutions using AWS Bedrock, LLMs, tool calling, and agent-based architectures.

Experience with Claude or Codex and prompt engineering

Experience working with large language models (LLMs)

Experience with Java-based REST APIs, preferably using Spring Boot.

FastAPI experience

Experience with data warehouse architecture

Financial services industry experience

AWS Step Functions

Lambda

Lake Formation

IAM

Cloud Watch

Docker

Git/Jenkins

RAG

AI agent development

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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