Remote Big Data Engineer for AI-Powered Pipelines

Executive Staff Recruiters / ESR Healthcare; United States; Remote; USD 85,962,000 - 229,233,000; Full time

Job summary

ESR Healthcare is seeking a highly skilled Big Data Engineer for a remote contract role. You will design and maintain scalable data pipelines to support AI model training and real-world data workflows.

The ideal candidate has strong Python, data engineering, and database expertise, plus experience with Hadoop/Spark/Flink. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable data platforms and ensure data quality in distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining large-scale data pipelines.
• Advanced proficiency in Python for data processing and automation.
• Deep understanding of relational and NoSQL databases and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable big data pipelines and architectures.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet data requirements and business objectives.
• Implement data integration, transformation, and processing using Python and big data tech.
• Develop, manage, and optimize distributed databases and storage systems.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and enhance data systems for high availability and performance.
• Enforce data quality, security, and governance standards across solutions.
• Document solutions and communicate complex concepts clearly.

Skills

big data

Python

databases

data engineering

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

Flink

Job description

ESR Healthcare is seeking a highly skilled Big Data Engineer for a remote contract role. You will design and maintain scalable data pipelines to support AI model training and real-world data workflows.

The ideal candidate has strong Python, data engineering, and database expertise, plus experience with Hadoop/Spark/Flink. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable data platforms and ensure data quality in distributed systems.