Senior Data Engineer - Hybrid AWS Data Platform Lead

MOTOR Information Systems; Troy (MI); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

MOTOR Information Systems, a Hearst company, seeks a hands-on Senior Data Engineer to architect and evolve its AWS-based data platform. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, drive architectural decisions, and mentor teammates.

You will tackle large-scale data challenges, partner with product and engineering, optimize for performance, reliability, and cost, and contribute to a modern, scalable data architecture.

Qualifications

• Expert Python & SQL development skills.
• Strong AWS experience including Lambda, Glue, RedShift.
• Experience with semi-structured data (XML, CSV, JSON, Parquet).
• Experience with data tooling and orchestration (Databricks, Kubernetes, CI/CD).

Responsibilities

• Analyze large, complex data sets to derive insights.
• Design, develop and coordinate data pipelines.
• Collaborate with teams to solve complex problems.
• Design for performance and cost in pipelines.

Skills

Python

SQL

AWS

Databricks

Kubernetes

DevOps CI/CD

Pandas/NumPy

Apache Spark

Tools

Octopus Deploy

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

MOTOR Information Systems, a Hearst company, seeks a hands-on Senior Data Engineer to architect and evolve its AWS-based data platform. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, drive architectural decisions, and mentor teammates.

You will tackle large-scale data challenges, partner with product and engineering, optimize for performance, reliability, and cost, and contribute to a modern, scalable data architecture.