Senior Data Engineer - Cloud Data Pipelines & BI

Velocity Staff, Inc.; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Velocity Staff, Inc. is assisting a client in the Overland Park, KS area to identify a Senior Level Data Engineer to join our Data Services Team.

This role focuses on data warehousing, pipeline creation, and analytical reporting to empower business intelligence across multiple sources, with a cloud-first data platform design. The successful candidate will collaborate with data architects and analysts to ingest, transform, and surface data, emphasizing reliability and scalable architectures using

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases (Postgres, Redshift, MongoDB, Elasticsearch).
• Experience building AWS-based data pipelines: Lambda, Docker/ECS, MSK.
• Mid/Senior level development utilizing Python: Pandas/Numpy, Boto3, SimpleSalesforce.
• Experience with version control (git) and peer code reviews.
• Enthusiasm for working directly with customer teams (Business units and internal IT).
• Nice to have: AWS Glue or Apache Spark.
• Kafka and Kafka Connect exposure; data visualization tools Grafana/PowerBI/AWS QuickSight/Excel.

Responsibilities

• Work with Data Architects to build data ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Design, build, and maintain a framework for pipeline observation and monitoring for reliability and performance.
• Surface data integration errors to the proper teams for timely processing.
• Provide technical consultation for automation, monitoring, and deployments.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

Skills

Python (Pandas)

SQL & NoSQL

Git & code reviews

Customer collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS Lambda

Docker / ECS

MSK

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Kafka

Kafka Connect

Parquet/Avro

Grafana/PowerBI

Job description

Velocity Staff, Inc. is assisting a client in the Overland Park, KS area to identify a Senior Level Data Engineer to join our Data Services Team.

This role focuses on data warehousing, pipeline creation, and analytical reporting to empower business intelligence across multiple sources, with a cloud-first data platform design. The successful candidate will collaborate with data architects and analysts to ingest, transform, and surface data, emphasizing reliability and scalable architectures using