Senior Cloud Engineer - Raleigh, NC (Hybrid)

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

Job: Senior Cloud Engineer

Location: 3700 Wake Forest Rd., Raleigh, NC 27609 (Hybrid Onsite 1 day per week)

Duration: 12 months contract

Job Description

This role serves as the technical and strategic lead for enterprise data integration across statewide programs and agencies. The Cloud Engineer designs, implements, and modernizes the enterprise landing zone, cloud ingestion patterns, and secure data pipelines, re-engineering legacy feeds such as SFTP, Azure Blob, and batch pathways into scalable, automated, cloud-native services aligned with state security policies and compliance requirements. The position collaborates with architects, security teams, vendors, and agency partners to ensure reliable, secure, standardized pipelines from ingestion through transformation and delivery, and it drives operational support across the full lifecycle.

Beyond integration, the role builds and maintains cloud-based data warehouse capabilities, including medallion structures (Bronze, Silver, Gold), to enable governed, analytics-ready transformations. It defines storage and partitioning conventions for performance and traceability, promotes governance alignment and privacy controls across frameworks such as HIPAA, CJIS, and NIST, and serves as the division's ETL subject matter expert on metadata, lineage, and modeling. The engineer also advances innovation by evaluating emerging tools and AI-assisted development to improve reliability, efficiency, and readiness for future capabilities.

The Enterprise Data Office (EDO), a division within the North Carolina Department of Information Technology (DIT), is responsible for delivering enterprise data and analytics capabilities that support statewide programs, agencies, and strategic initiatives. Through these capabilities, the EDO enables improved decision-making, operational efficiency, and better outcomes for citizens across North Carolina.

Required Skills and Experience

Skill / Requirement

Requirement

Years

Cloud data engineering and integration, including modern lakehouse and medallion architectures

Required

5 Years

ETL and pipeline development with robust orchestration, error handling, validation, and lineage

Required

5 Years

Data quality, metadata management, and governance practices to ensure accuracy and compliance

Required

3 Years

Security and privacy alignment across frameworks such as HIPAA, CJIS, and NIST, plus DevSecOps awareness

Required

3 Years

Networking and cloud platform fundamentals, identity and access management, and distributed compute and storage in Azure, AWS, or SAS Viya

Required

3 Years

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