Remote AWS Data Engineering Lead (6-Month Contract)

Polarits; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 130,872 - 199,752; Full time

Job summary

Polarits seeks an AWS Tech Lead for Capital One, a 6-month contracting engagement with strong extension potential, 5 positions available. The role is 100% remote and requires leading six data engineering teams to deliver on time while guiding sprint ceremonies and collaboration with senior managers.

Ideal candidates will have deep AWS expertise, data engineering prowess, and experience with Snowflake data warehousing, APIs, and Agile practices.

Qualifications

• Must have AWS (EMR/Glue, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch) expertise.
• Proficient in Python/Java, Spark, Databricks, SQL, Bash.
• Experience with building data pipelines (Python scripting) and data warehousing (Snowflake).
• Experience designing/consuming APIs and working with Agile practices & Jira.

Responsibilities

• Lead 6 Data Engineering teams and ensure on-time delivery of their work.
• Lead sprint ceremonies and collaborate with senior managers to solve problems; pivot quickly as requirements change.

Skills

AWS

Python/Java

Spark

Databricks

SQL

Bash

Data pipelines

Snowflake

APIs

Agile & JIRA

Tools

Kafka

Airflow

GitHub

Jenkins

Splunk

New Relic

Job description

Polarits seeks an AWS Tech Lead for Capital One, a 6-month contracting engagement with strong extension potential, 5 positions available. The role is 100% remote and requires leading six data engineering teams to deliver on time while guiding sprint ceremonies and collaboration with senior managers.

Ideal candidates will have deep AWS expertise, data engineering prowess, and experience with Snowflake data warehousing, APIs, and Agile practices.