Job Title: Cloud Data Developer/Engineer
Job Location: Nutley NJ – Hybrid work model: 3 days onsite (Tue–Thu)
Job Duration: 12 Months
Pay: $70 – $80/hr. on w2
Experience:
- Experience 7-10+ years in Data Engineering/Cloud Development.
Core Requirements & Technical Skills:
- Proven experience designing and building scalable data pipelines (ingestion, transformation, validation) using AWS, Python, and Databricks (Spark/PySpark).
- Experience working with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Exposure to life sciences data formats such as DICOM, FASTQ/BAM/PLINK, or SAS7BDAT is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks.
- Experience with data governance tools (e.g., Immuta) is preferred.
- Familiarity with analytics and statistical tools such as Tableau, R/Posit, or SAS is a plus.
- Deep expertise in AWS data services (e.g., S3, Lambda, RDS, FSx/EFS) and cloud-native architecture best practices.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL, with experience in PySpark; working knowledge of R is a plus.
- Experience with CI/CD and orchestration tools such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Apache Airflow.
- Working knowledge of data science and machine learning concepts (e.g., scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
- Experience with Databricks, including cluster usage and performance optimization; exposure to Unity Catalog and platform administration is a plus.
- AWS and/or Databricks certifications are preferred.
- Experience with Kubernetes/EKS is a plus.
- Experience architecting technology solutions to meet business requirements.
- Experience managing technology projects end to end through planning, design, build, testing and deployment phases.
- Understanding of Computer System Validation for GxP vs Non-GxP technologies is preferred.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with internal IT partners, business partners and external vendors.