Data Engineer – AWS Pipelines & FinServ Data

Swoon; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 74,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Swoon in McLean, VA is seeking a Data Engineer to join a financial services organization on a 13-month contract. You will build Python-based data pipelines on an AWS-native platform that ingests data from source systems into a third-party application.

Responsibilities include validating, transforming, and publishing data with Lambda, Kinesis, S3, Glue, and CDK; plus testing, CI/CD, and security practices to protect sensitive financial information.

Qualifications

• Experience building production data ingestion pipelines.
• Experience with AWS CDK / Infrastructure as Code.
• Strong testing, Git, and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain production-grade Python data pipelines.
• Develop data ingestion, validation, tokenization, transformation, and publishing processes.
• Work across AWS services including Lambda, ECS, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, IAM, Glue, and CDK.
• Support Glue/Spark consumers and Flink-based pipelines.
• Build rigorous unit and end-to-end testing.
• Support system and E2E testing phases.
• Remediate security vulnerabilities across code and dependencies.
• Ensure proper handling and protection of sensitive financial data.
• Work within Git and CI/CD environments.

Skills

Data ingestion pipelines

CI/CD practices

Git

Tools

Python

AWS CDK

Lambda

Kinesis

S3

DynamoDB

ECS

Glue

Flink

Job description

Swoon in McLean, VA is seeking a Data Engineer to join a financial services organization on a 13-month contract. You will build Python-based data pipelines on an AWS-native platform that ingests data from source systems into a third-party application.

Responsibilities include validating, transforming, and publishing data with Lambda, Kinesis, S3, Glue, and CDK; plus testing, CI/CD, and security practices to protect sensitive financial information.