Cloud Data Engineer - AWS & Big Data Pipelines

KDA Consulting Inc; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

KDA Consulting Inc. seeks a skilled Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain data pipelines and architectures for mission-critical IC programs in the United States.

The role emphasizes AWS cloud services, data engineering best practices, and big data technologies to enable efficient data processing, analytics, and decision-making. The ideal candidate will support data ingestion, transformation, and loading from multiple sources while ensuring data quality, security, and performance in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field required.
• Experience with data engineering and pipelines.
• Strong AWS data services experience (S3/Glue/Redshift).
• Proficiency in SQL and Python for processing.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Create data workflows for batch and real-time processing.
• Ensure high availability and reliability of data pipelines.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Python scripting

Data modeling

Analytical thinking

Big data concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

AWS

S3

Glue

Redshift

Lambda

EMR

Kinesis

Job description

KDA Consulting Inc. seeks a skilled Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain data pipelines and architectures for mission-critical IC programs in the United States.

The role emphasizes AWS cloud services, data engineering best practices, and big data technologies to enable efficient data processing, analytics, and decision-making. The ideal candidate will support data ingestion, transformation, and loading from multiple sources while ensuring data quality, security, and performance in a