AWS Data Engineer
Job Description
Own end-to-end AWS data engineering for enterprise-scale pipelines and cloud data warehouse solutions in a hybrid role based in Rosemont, IL.
Responsibilities
- Own enterprise-scale data pipelines and cloud data warehouse solutions from design through deployment
- Build cloud-based pipelines using modern orchestration to support real analytics workloads across the company
- Architect and optimize a Redshift data warehouse for business intelligence and reporting at scale
- Drive ETL and data lake architecture decisions
- Design and build APIs and API gateway integrations to connect systems and enable data access across the organization
- Implement medallion architecture and modern data standards
- Collaborate closely with IT and cross-functional teams in a lean environment where ideas move quickly
- Participate across the build lifecycle: requirements, design, coding, testing, and deployment
- Troubleshoot and support production platforms the business relies on daily
- Identify broken or outdated components and implement improvements
- Mentor less experienced engineers and help shape team priorities
- Contribute to the growth of the data engineering practice as the company scales rapidly
Requirements
- Recent, hands-on experience building and supporting AWS solutions, including IAM, S3, API Gateway, Glue or similar integration services, Lake Formation, Redshift, and relational/NoSQL databases (RDS, DynamoDB)
- Strong working knowledge of a modern workflow orchestration tool for pipeline scheduling and management (Airflow, Step Functions, or similar)
- Proficiency in Python and PySpark for scalable data engineering
- Experience developing and integrating APIs, including API gateway configuration
- Solid understanding of relational database concepts and data modeling best practices
- Familiarity with medallion-style or similarly layered data architecture standards
- Stable, progressive career history demonstrating depth in data engineering roles
- Strong analytical skills plus excellent written and verbal communication
- Comfort working independently with minimal supervision while collaborating across teams
- Openness to supporting legacy systems alongside newer technologies
Technologies
- AWS, IAM, S3, API Gateway, Glue, Lake Formation, Redshift, RDS, DynamoDB
- Airflow, Step Functions, Python, PySpark
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Vision insurance
Nice to Have
- Exposure to AI or machine learning tooling in a data engineering context (for example, pipelines feeding ML models, working with AWS AI services like SageMaker, or supporting AI-driven analytics use cases)
Location: Rosemont, IL (hybrid, 3 days onsite)
Compensation: USD 135,000 - 150,000 per year