Associate Data Engineer - Data Pipelines & AI

CleanSlate Technology Group; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

CleanSlate Technology Group is seeking an Associate Data Engineer to contribute to client data engineering projects within our Data and AI Practice. You will work on pipelines and platform components supporting analytics, machine learning, and AI use cases, under guidance from senior engineers.

This role emphasizes execution, learning, and growth through clearly scoped assignments and established engineering patterns, with opportunities to engage in design discussions and client conversations

Qualifications

• Foundational hands-on data pipeline experience from employment, internships, or projects.
• Programming skills in Python, Java, or Scala demonstrated on data processing tasks.
• Working knowledge of SQL for filtering, joining, and transforming relational data.
• Exposure to data integration concepts and at least one tech like Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift, or similar.
• Understanding of data modeling and analytics-focused structures.
• Familiarity with data quality concepts and validation.
• Basic exposure to AWS and/or Azure data services from projects or coursework.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly within a team.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain defined components of data pipelines and platforms.
• Implement ingestion, transformation, and orchestration tasks using established patterns.
• Participate in solution design and technical discussions, documenting decisions.
• Write clean, maintainable code and follow team standards.
• Assist with testing, data validation, deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with team members and client stakeholders, raising blockers when needed.
• Participate in code reviews and agile ceremonies; incorporate feedback into work.
• Follow engineering standards and continue learning data engineering skills.
• Contribute to ongoing improvements of analytics, ML, and AI data use cases.

Skills

Python/Java/Scala

SQL

Data pipelines

Cloud data services

Data modeling

Data quality

Team collaboration

CI/CD concepts

Job description

CleanSlate Technology Group is seeking an Associate Data Engineer to contribute to client data engineering projects within our Data and AI Practice. You will work on pipelines and platform components supporting analytics, machine learning, and AI use cases, under guidance from senior engineers.

This role emphasizes execution, learning, and growth through clearly scoped assignments and established engineering patterns, with opportunities to engage in design discussions and client conversations