Mid Data Engineer - AI-Driven Data Platform (Hybrid)

The Intersect Group; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Part time

Job summary

The Intersect Group is hiring a Data Engineer (Mid) in Irving, TX, offering hybrid work. This role focuses on building modern data platforms and AI-enabled solutions, integrating enterprise data with AI insights and delivering scalable data products.

You will own data engineering components from development to production, collaborating with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders to meet business needs and ensure data quality and accessibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3–5 years of data engineering or related software engineering experience.
• Proficiency with Python and SQL, including complex queries and performance tuning.
• Experience with Spark/PySpark and distributed data processing.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize scalable batch and near real-time data pipelines.
• Integrate data from enterprise applications, APIs, event streams, and AI outputs into analysts-ready datasets.
• Develop transformations across structured and semi-structured data with time zones and deduplication.
• Create data models and curated datasets for analytics and AI workflows.
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to support inference and model outputs.
• Implement data quality checks, reconciliation, monitoring, and alerting.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and implement retries, backfills, and incremental processing.
• Partner with product managers and engineers to translate business needs into data solutions.

Skills

Python

SQL

Spark

Cloud (Azure/AWS)

ETL/ELT

Data modeling

Airflow/Databricks

Git

CI/CD

Testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Kafka

Azure Event Hubs

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

The Intersect Group is hiring a Data Engineer (Mid) in Irving, TX, offering hybrid work. This role focuses on building modern data platforms and AI-enabled solutions, integrating enterprise data with AI insights and delivering scalable data products.

You will own data engineering components from development to production, collaborating with AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and stakeholders to meet business needs and ensure data quality and accessibility.