Senior Data Engineer

VELVETECH LLC; Northbrook (IL); Remote; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and optimize data pipelines and ETL processes. This exciting role offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies in a fully remote environment, ensuring high performance and scalability. Join a collaborative team that values high performance, responsibility, and continuous learning, where you can grow your skills and make a significant impact on international projects. If you are passionate about data engineering and want to contribute to robust software solutions, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working conditions

Professional development opportunities

Support for additional education and certification

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering with expert-level Python and SQL skills.
• Strong experience in designing ETL processes and working with large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize ETL workflows using Python and SQL.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines for processing various data sources.

Skills

Python

SQL

ETL processes

Data Engineering

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

PostgreSQL

Azure

AWS

GCP

PySpark

GitLab CI

TeamCity

Jira

Confluence

MS Teams

Slack

Job description

From IT consulting to building custom tech solutions and integrating enterprise systems — our services span a full range of software development to accelerate your project delivery.

With high-level expertise in technologies, data, and processes, we ensure you get digital solutions that perfectly blend into your business environment to boost its efficiency.

We know the finer points of your business domain with its standards and regulations, which allows us to readily address your challenges and you — take maximum advantage.

We’ve accumulated solid experience and consolidated some of its examples in one place to help you find a case for inspiration and ease your decision-making process.

Each week we post articles based on our team’s expertise and current industry trends to provide you with insights and inspire you to take on IT initiatives.

Being more than a team of IT professionals, we support a flexible and progressive environment to adapt to our clients' needs, earn their trust, and grow expertise.

Velvetech is an American global software development company headquartered in Miami, FL, and with an office in Chicago, IL. Velvetech has its developers strategically distributed in 10+ global technical job markets to deliver the best in class software engineering and exceptional client services.

We have 20+ years of experience in software and hardware development for clients all around the world, especially for US clients. As an official Microsoft Gold Partner, our company is listed in the top 5 software development companies in Illinois, USA.

US clients are leading trading and financial organizations, insurance companies, large healthcare associations, pharmaceutical and energy companies, equipment manufacturers, hi-tech startups, etc.

Areas of expertise are consulting, development, implementation, and support of software solutions. We implement modern backend solutions that support microservices architecture with the following technologies: .NET Core, Node.js, Java, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ. For the web UI front-end development, we opt for React, or Angular, and for mobile development — Swift, Kotlin, Java. Most of the systems are designed for cloud infrastructures like AWS, Azure, GCP, and heavily rely on Docker, Kubernetes while modern CI/CD is made using GitLab CI or TeamCity.

Principles are based on Agile Methodology, Scrum and Kanban. Various projects coded in GitLab or GitHub are built with multiple coordinated teams, collaborating via Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, and Slack. Velvetech constantly follows the Tech trends and actively cooperates with startups in such breakthrough areas as Machine Learning, the Internet of Things, Blockchain, FPGA, and AI.

Position overview

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer with deep expertise in Python and SQL. You will design, implement, and optimize data pipelines and ETL processes, ensuring high performance, scalability, and reliability. This is a fully remote position with flexible working conditions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize ETL workflows using Python and SQL.
• Design and implement scalable data pipelines for processing various data sources.
• Work with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle) to ensure efficient data storage and retrieval.
• Optimize SQL queries and Python scripts for performance and maintainability.
• Implement robust error handling, logging, and monitoring for data processing pipelines.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate and manage data sources.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering.
• Expert-level Python and SQL skills – ability to write efficient, scalable, and maintainable code.
• Strong experience in designing ETL processes and working with large datasets.
• Solid understanding of database performance tuning and query optimization.
• Experience with data modeling and schema design.
• Familiarity with cloud storage solutions (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
• Nice to have: Experience with PySpark, orchestrators and knowledge of CI/CD for deployment process automation.

Our team

We are a friendly team of 150+ professionals where everyone is able to achieve high results and grows professionally not only due to their own knowledge and skills but also with the support of colleagues. Values that we highly appreciate are high performance, responsibility, respect, and loyalty. In order to have a highly motivated team, Velvetech invests in their people, additional education, certification, and others. You choose your career path and we are here to support you!

People work together in harmony, encouraging each other to continuously learn, progress, and pursue perfection. Our employees enjoy working as we turn challenges into advantages to share success with each other.

You have a chance to become a part of a friendly and professional team that creates robust software solutions to deliver maximum value to our international clients!