Senior Data Engineer: GraphQL & AWS Pipelines (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Columbus (OH); Remote; 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 seeks a senior Data Engineer for a remote contract focused on Identity and Access Management. You will design and evolve low-latency GraphQL APIs and data pipelines that power developer workflows, using AWS microservices and modern data tooling.

The role emphasizes production monitoring, data modeling, and collaboration within a small team. EST hours apply, with a potential for conversion and a comprehensive W2 benefits package.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering and backend service development.
• Hands-on expertise with GraphQL API design and implementation.
• Strong proficiency with PySpark or Scala/Spark, batch processing, and AWS Glue.
• Experience with Snowflake and building scalable data pipelines.
• Advanced AWS experience focused on Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, and associated services.
• Prior senior-level ownership in cloud environments with production monitoring and reliability.
• Background delivering low-latency, highly available microservices at scale.
• Ability to operate in a small, high-impact team and augment existing pipelines.

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.

Tools

GraphQL API design & implementation

PySpark

Apache Spark

Snowflake

AWS Glue

Lambda

ECS

DynamoDB

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a senior Data Engineer for a remote contract focused on Identity and Access Management. You will design and evolve low-latency GraphQL APIs and data pipelines that power developer workflows, using AWS microservices and modern data tooling.

The role emphasizes production monitoring, data modeling, and collaboration within a small team. EST hours apply, with a potential for conversion and a comprehensive W2 benefits package.