Senior Data Engineer: Airflow, dbt, Kubernetes Jersey City

Stellent IT LLC; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

RITS in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise data engineering. You will own Airflow DAG development, dbt Core modeling, and containerized workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift to build scalable data pipelines for financial and accounting platforms.

The role requires strong Python skills, experience with performance tuning, observability, and collaboration with data architects and stakeholders to ensure high availability and reliable

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of professional data engineering experience.
• Enterprise-scale data platforms in production.
• Expert Airflow design, scheduling, and performance tuning.
• Expert DBT Core modeling, testing, and implementation.
• Strong Python for data engineering and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain complex Airflow DAGs for pipelines.
• Lead dbt Core implementation, modeling, and CI/CD integration.
• Deploy and manage workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift with scalability.

Skills

Airflow

DBT Core

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Python

Data modeling

ETL design

Performance tuning

Observability

Tools

dbt Core

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

RITS in Jersey City, NJ is seeking a Senior Data Engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise data engineering. You will own Airflow DAG development, dbt Core modeling, and containerized workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift to build scalable data pipelines for financial and accounting platforms.

The role requires strong Python skills, experience with performance tuning, observability, and collaboration with data architects and stakeholders to ensure high availability and reliable