Junior Data Engineer: Cloud Pipelines & APIs

Kforce Inc; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kforce is seeking a Junior Data Engineer/Software Engineer in Charlotte, NC to support data pipelines, software services, and cloud-based solutions. You will work with data engineers, software engineers, data architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to extract, transform, validate, and move data across relational and non-relational systems, while enabling REST and GraphQL API consumption.

The role emphasizes collaboration, API development, data quality, and learning across technologies

Qualifications

• Experience with AI-assisted development tools and protection of confidential information.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, RDS, and CloudWatch.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure data services.
• Experience with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS).
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Experience designing, developing, testing, or consuming REST APIs.
• Experience with GraphQL schemas, queries, mutations, or client integrations.
• Familiarity with API testing and documentation tools (Postman, Swagger, OpenAPI).
• Experience with Java frameworks such as Spring or Spring Boot.
• Experience developing reports/dashboards with Tableau or Power BI.
• Exposure to data warehousing, dimensional modeling, JSON/XML, semi-structured data.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, containerization, monitoring, and cloud deployment.

Responsibilities

• Support development, integration, and maintenance of data pipelines and reporting platforms.
• Assist in building cloud-based services, APIs, and data workflows.
• Collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, data architects, analysts, and stakeholders to move and validate data across systems.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

REST APIs

GraphQL APIs

AWS

Azure

Data modeling

Data warehousing

Git

Tableau/Power BI

ETL/ELT

CI/CD

Tools

SSIS

GitHub Copilot

OpenAPI

Postman

Job description

Kforce is seeking a Junior Data Engineer/Software Engineer in Charlotte, NC to support data pipelines, software services, and cloud-based solutions. You will work with data engineers, software engineers, data architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to extract, transform, validate, and move data across relational and non-relational systems, while enabling REST and GraphQL API consumption.

The role emphasizes collaboration, API development, data quality, and learning across technologies