Senior Data Engineer: GraphQL, AWS & Spark (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a remote contract role to help launch a new Identity and Access Management initiative. You will design low-latency GraphQL APIs, build data pipelines with PySpark/Spark, and implement AWS-based microservices with Lambda and DynamoDB.

The role requires 10+ years in data engineering, strong Snowflake experience, and production monitoring. Remote EST-hours; W2 benefits offered; potential for conversion.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering and backend development.
• GraphQL API design and implementation.
• Proficiency with PySpark or Scala/Spark and AWS Glue.
• Experience with Snowflake and scalable data pipelines.
• Advanced AWS experience focusing on Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, and related services.
• Senior-level ownership in cloud environments with production monitoring.
• Experience delivering low-latency, highly available microservices at scale.
• Ability to operate in a small, high-impact team.

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

Spark

AWS Glue

Snowflake

Lambda

ECS

DynamoDB

Microservices

Production monitoring

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a remote contract role to help launch a new Identity and Access Management initiative. You will design low-latency GraphQL APIs, build data pipelines with PySpark/Spark, and implement AWS-based microservices with Lambda and DynamoDB.

The role requires 10+ years in data engineering, strong Snowflake experience, and production monitoring. Remote EST-hours; W2 benefits offered; potential for conversion.