Remote Senior AWS Data Engineer: Build Scalable Pipelines

TEKsystems; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

TEKsystems in Des Moines, IA is seeking a senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products enabling analytics at scale.

You will collaborate across teams to govern data, optimize ingestion and processing of large datasets, and contribute to engineering standards in a modern data ecosystem. This fully remote contract role requires 6–10 years in data engineering with Snowflake and AWS Glue proficiency.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 6–10 years of relevant data engineering experience.
• Experience in IT, data engineering or related field.
• Strong leadership, communication and presentation skills.
• Advanced analytical, problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Strong organizational and planning skills with attention to accuracy and confidentiality.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical strategies and designs across all organizational levels.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate in cross-functional environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable data pipelines and system integrations across multiple platforms.
• Build and optimize systems for data ingestion, transformation, and processing of large datasets.
• Support the full data lifecycle—from acquisition and ingestion to delivering analytics-ready datasets.
• Ensure high-quality, reliable data solutions through testing, validation, and monitoring practices.
• Promote and follow best practices for version control, automated testing, and code quality.
• Collaborate with upstream and downstream teams to ensure data is well-modeled, governed, and accessible.
• Participate in technical design discussions and contribute to solution architecture.
• Identify and resolve data quality issues, performance bottlenecks, and technical debt.
• Apply security standards and support risk mitigation during development.
• Create and maintain documentation for pipelines, data models, and processes.
• Collaborate through code reviews, pairing, and knowledge sharing with team members.
• Provide on-call support as needed.

Skills

snowflake

aws glue

data

data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree with 6-10 years of relevant experience

Master's degree with 2-8 years of relevant experience

Job description

TEKsystems in Des Moines, IA is seeking a senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products enabling analytics at scale.

You will collaborate across teams to govern data, optimize ingestion and processing of large datasets, and contribute to engineering standards in a modern data ecosystem. This fully remote contract role requires 6–10 years in data engineering with Snowflake and AWS Glue proficiency.