Remote Data Engineer Associate | Cloud Data Platforms

FormativGroup, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Job summary

FormativGroup is seeking a Data Engineering Consulting Associate to help design, build, and optimize modern data platforms enabling advanced analytics, reporting, and AI-driven decision-making.

You will work with experienced consultants and client stakeholders to deliver end-to-end data engineering solutions across cloud and on‑prem environments, gaining both technical and consulting experience in large-scale transformations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in data engineering, data integration, analytics engineering, software engineering, or related technical role.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, relational databases, and ETL/ELT development.
• Understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and data quality practices.
• Experience with at least one programming language such as Python, Scala, or Java.
• Familiarity with at least one cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented, client-facing environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes.
• Support the implementation of modern data platforms, data lakes, and data warehouses.
• Develop data integration solutions using cloud-native and enterprise technologies.
• Build and optimize data ingestion frameworks for structured and unstructured data.
• Perform data quality validation, transformation, reconciliation, and performance tuning.
• Support migration of legacy data environments to modern cloud architectures.
• Gather business and technical requirements from client stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into practical technical data solutions.
• Participate in workshops, design sessions, demonstrations, and project status meetings.
• Document technical designs, architecture decisions, operating procedures, and development standards.
• Support disciplined project delivery across one or more client workstreams.
• Collaborate with business intelligence, analytics, AI, and data science teams to ensure reliable data availability.
• Support the development of curated data models for reporting and analytical use cases.
• Assist with implementing data governance, security, privacy, and compliance controls.
• Identify opportunities to improve platform performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Stay current on emerging cloud, data engineering, analytics, and AI technologies.
• Contribute to internal accelerators, reusable assets, proposals, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Skills

SQL

ETL/ELT

Data warehousing

Python/Scala/Java

Cloud platforms

Analytics

Documentation

Teamwork

Education

Bachelors in CS/IS/Data Eng or related field

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Databricks

Synapse Analytics

Snowflake

BigQuery

Airflow

dbt

Job description

FormativGroup is seeking a Data Engineering Consulting Associate to help design, build, and optimize modern data platforms enabling advanced analytics, reporting, and AI-driven decision-making.

You will work with experienced consultants and client stakeholders to deliver end-to-end data engineering solutions across cloud and on‑prem environments, gaining both technical and consulting experience in large-scale transformations.