Senior Data Engineer – Airflow, DBT Core, Kubernetes/OpenShift

Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Life & Disability Insurance

MetLife Voluntary Benefits

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

401K Retirement Savings Plan

Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll

Referral Bonus Programs

Certification and training

Job summary

Yoh, A Day & Zimmermann Company in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a contract role with a hybrid schedule. You will build and operate data pipelines across Apache Airflow, dbt Core, and Kubernetes/OpenShift in an on-prem environment supporting financial and accounting platforms.

The role emphasizes hands-on development and operations, workflow orchestration, data modeling, and performance tuning within containerized deployments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional data engineering experience in production environments.
• Hands-on with Apache Airflow DAGs, dbt Core, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.
• Experience deploying on-prem OpenShift in enterprise settings.
• Experience building and operating scalable data pipelines for financial/accounting platforms.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and optimize scalable data pipelines for financial platforms.
• Support enterprise system migrations and high-volume processing workloads.
• Perform workflow orchestration.
• Conduct data modeling.
• Handle performance tuning.
• Manage distributed workloads in Kubernetes/OpenShift on-prem environments.

Skills

Data engineering

Production pipelines

Containerized workloads

On-prem infrastructure

Tools

Apache Airflow

dbt Core

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

This is a contract Senior Data Engineer role with a hybrid schedule based in Jersey City, NJ. The position focuses on hands-on development and operations across Apache Airflow DAGs, dbt Core, and Kubernetes/OpenShift in an on-prem environment supporting financial and accounting platforms.

Role Overview

You will build, operate, and optimize scalable data pipelines that support financial/accounting platforms. The work includes workflow orchestration, data modeling, performance tuning, and managing distributed workloads in containerized environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and optimize scalable data pipelines supporting financial and accounting platforms
• Support enterprise system migrations and high-volume data processing workloads
• Perform workflow orchestration
• Conduct data modeling
• Handle performance tuning
• Manage distributed workloads in containerized environments, aligned with Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment needs

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing Apache Airflow DAGs
• Experience with dbt Core
• Experience with Kubernetes
• On-prem OpenShift experience
• 10+ years of professional experience in data engineering, designing and supporting enterprise-scale data platforms in production environments
• Hands-on experience deploying DBT and Apache Airflow on Kubernetes, specifically within an on-prem OpenShift environment
• Strong working knowledge involving infrastructure, including Kubernetes operations, Airflow design and implementation, and hands-on dbt model development in an on-prem setup
• Deeper, practical experience with dbt and Airflow within Kubernetes-based, on-prem environments

Technologies

• Apache Airflow
• dbt Core
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift

Location and Schedule

• Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid)
• 3 days a week in-office

Contract Details

• Job type: Contract
• Minimum experience: 10 years
• Estimated hourly rate: $75.00
• Estimated maximum hourly rate: $95.00

Benefits

• Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Benefits (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Health Savings Account (HSA) (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• Life & Disability Insurance (for employees working 20+ hours per week)
• MetLife Voluntary Benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401K Retirement Savings Plan
• Direct Deposit & weekly epayroll
• Referral Bonus Programs
• Certification and training opportunities