Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Location: Durham, NC

Type: Contract

Category: Engineer

Industry: Financial Services

Hybrid in Durham, NC

We are seeking a highly motivated Full Stack Engineer to join the Data Aggregation team. Data Aggregation is a growing area and we are looking for a skilled engineer to drive design and development of industry leading external facing API solutions. The comprehensive API / data solutions will seek to bring together retail, clearing and custody capabilities to help external fintech partners with the financial goal planning, investment advice and financial projections capabilities to better serve our clients and more efficiently partner with them to accomplish their financial objectives.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $60 – $85 / hr. w2

• Champions innovative technology solutions to resolve sophisticated business problems
• Works across groups to find opportunities for organization-wide technology initiatives
• Brings external information, ideas, and expertise back to the team
• Good understanding of the software development process including analysis, design, coding, system and user testing, problem resolution and planning
• Identify creative ways to drive desired outcomes and promote culture of innovation by setting examples.
• Collaborate with peers through code reviews, pair programming or interactive discussions daily.
• You are comfortable working across multiple squads and adaptable to change.
• Embrace customer-first mentality and enjoy developing user-friendly internet facing web applications that solve real life problems.
• Have a passion for following outstanding software engineering practices and always looking to improve your engineering skills and industry knowledge.
• Bring a data-driven & collaborative approach to decision making, both in day-to-day work and in making strategic trade-offs.

• 10 years’ experience developing Spark or Spring Batch Services for Data movement.
• Schedule, Monitor and debug ETL Spring Batch and Spark Batch.
• Hands on Experience with Java clients for consuming REST and SOAP APIs and Scala spark batch application.
• Develop, Test, Deploy and maintain ETL Batch Jobs using Spring Batch and Apache Spark/EMR Jobs.
• Utilizing Apache Spark cluster-computing framework to process big data and write to No-SQL Database ex Cassandra or Yugabyte.
• Experience with cloud-based data warehousing and data lake solutions such as Snowflake.
• Experience with data storage and data management for large datasets like parquet, HDF5, etc.
• Proven experience in building and deploying software solutions utilizing public cloud provider services like AWS.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field proven track record in data engineering.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:
Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

Eliassen Group is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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