Senior Cloud Data Engineer — AWS, Databricks & Terraform

ZealHire Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

United Airlines is hiring for a data engineering role within the Product Analytics team. The candidate will partner with multiple teams to build and operationalize data pipelines, data models, and analytics solutions across a distributed AWS environment.

We value strong problem-solving, communication, and leadership, with hands-on experience in Python, SQL, and cloud technologies. This hybrid role requires collaboration across functions and timely delivery of data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative field (statistics, software engineering, business analytics, information systems, aviation management or related degree).
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or ETL development role.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer business questions.
• Strong analytic skills with structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Experience with Big Query, SQL Server, etc.
• Experience with AWS cloud services: Redshift, S3, Athena, etc.
• Experience with SQL and database tools (SSMS, Oracle SQL Developer).
• Passion for solving problems through data and analytics and creating data products.
• Strong ownership and validation/testing mindset with business-user perspective.
• Clear, precise communication of quantitative concepts.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with cross-functional teams to define and execute data acquisition, storage, transformation and data products.
• Work with United's data sources and analytics to enable actionable insights.
• Support large-scale data pipelines in a distributed, scalable environment.
• Optimize and productionize the AWS data infrastructure and frameworks.
• Create Terraform modules to automate deployments.
• Leverage Databricks and Datalake technologies in data workflows.
• Collaborate with developers and stakeholders to deliver data-driven solutions.
• Lead design and development of batch and streaming data applications using AWS tech.
• Provide technical direction and resolve queries and issues.
• Possess AWS Certification and apply best practices.

Skills

DevOps

AWS Cloud

Terraform

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative field

Master's degree

Tools

Databricks

BigQuery

SQL Server

Redshift

S3

Athena

Oracle SQL Developer

Job description

United Airlines is hiring for a data engineering role within the Product Analytics team. The candidate will partner with multiple teams to build and operationalize data pipelines, data models, and analytics solutions across a distributed AWS environment.

We value strong problem-solving, communication, and leadership, with hands-on experience in Python, SQL, and cloud technologies. This hybrid role requires collaboration across functions and timely delivery of data-driven insights.