Senior Data Engineer: GraphQL APIs & Spark on AWS (Remote)

Eliassen Group; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Data Engineer to join a remote, contract-based initiative focused on Identity and Access Management. The role centers on building low-latency GraphQL APIs, evolving data pipelines with PySpark/Spark, and deploying microservices on AWS (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB).

The team operates in EST hours, with potential for conversion and a comprehensive benefits package for W2 consultants.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering and backend service development.
• Hands-on experience with GraphQL API design and implementation.
• Strong PySpark or Spark experience with batch processing and AWS Glue.
• Experience with Snowflake and building scalable data pipelines.
• Advanced AWS experience with Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, and related services.
• Senior-level ownership in cloud environments with production monitoring and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain low-latency GraphQL APIs used in critical developer runtime flows.
• Develop and enhance data pipelines using PySpark or Apache Spark, Snowflake, and AWS Glue.
• Implement microservices on AWS using Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, and related services.
• Ingest, transform, and serve data to power API responses with strong data modeling and quality practices.
• Set up monitoring, observability, and alerting for APIs, data jobs, and microservices.
• Collaborate with IAM stakeholders to support an agentic risk-identification initiative.
• Contribute to architecture, security, and performance reviews for cloud-native services.
• Work within EST hours in a fully remote environment and participate in a streamlined interview process.

Skills

GraphQL API design

PySpark

Apache Spark

Snowflake

AWS

Lambda

ECS

DynamoDB

Data pipelines

Data modeling

Tools

AWS Glue

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a senior Data Engineer to join a remote, contract-based initiative focused on Identity and Access Management. The role centers on building low-latency GraphQL APIs, evolving data pipelines with PySpark/Spark, and deploying microservices on AWS (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB).

The team operates in EST hours, with potential for conversion and a comprehensive benefits package for W2 consultants.