Senior Cloud Data Engineer – Hybrid, 12-Month Contract

My3tech; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Enterprise Data Office within the North Carolina Department of Information Technology seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead data integration strategy for statewide programs. You will design and modernize the enterprise landing zone, cloud ingestion, and secure data pipelines across Azure, AWS, and SAS Viya.

You will collaborate with architects, security teams, vendors, and agency partners to ensure reliable, compliant pipelines from ingestion to delivery, while advancing cloud data warehouse

Qualifications

• Cloud data engineering and integration with lakehouse and medallion architectures.
• ETL and pipeline development with robust orchestration, error handling, validation, and lineage.
• Data quality, metadata management, and governance practices to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Security and privacy alignment across HIPAA, CJIS, and NIST; DevSecOps awareness.
• Networking and cloud platform fundamentals, IAM, and distributed compute/storage in Azure, AWS, or SAS Viya.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of enterprise cloud data pipelines and lakehouse architectures.
• Build and maintain cloud-based data warehouse capabilities with medallion structures.
• Ensure governance, privacy controls, HIPAA/CJIS/NIST alignment.
• Collaborate with architects, security teams, vendors, and agencies across lifecycle.

Skills

Cloud data engineering and integration

ETL and pipeline development

Data quality and governance

Security and privacy alignment

Networking and cloud fundamentals

Job description

The Enterprise Data Office within the North Carolina Department of Information Technology seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead data integration strategy for statewide programs. You will design and modernize the enterprise landing zone, cloud ingestion, and secure data pipelines across Azure, AWS, and SAS Viya.

You will collaborate with architects, security teams, vendors, and agency partners to ensure reliable, compliant pipelines from ingestion to delivery, while advancing cloud data warehouse