Senior Data Engineer in Newark

Energy Jobline ZR; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Jobline ZR in Newark, NJ is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the Global Technology team for a major Insurance client. You will collaborate with application and infrastructure developers to build data infrastructure that powers high-availability, durable, and resilient solutions.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years IT experience with 5+ years as an AWS Data Engineer, strong problem-solving and communication skills, and the ability to work across global client teams in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Superior analytical and problem solving skills
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Good communication for client interaction

Responsibilities

• Debug complex data workflows and optimize ETL code
• Ensure data quality, performance, and delivery
• Evaluate new AWS data services for fit
• Develop data workflows using IaC frameworks such as CloudFormation or Terraform
• Support CI/CD pipelines for data deployments

Skills

Analytical skills

Independent work

Client communication

Python

Docker

CI/CD

Git

SQL

ETL

Spark

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Jenkins

CodePipeline

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Role Overview:

• The person will be part of the Global Technology team for a major Insurance client. He/ She will work as a Senior Cloud Engineer within the CDO EDP team and will have the opportunity to work one-on-one with application and infrastructure developers to build and enhance the data infrastructure and application patterns that power mission-critical applications, ensuring that they’re engineered for high availability, durability, and resiliency
• They will be part of an agile team that combines various backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives to solve complex problems within AWS and beyond.
• The person will also be required to participate actively in brainstorming sessions for improvement opportunities and take it to completion
• A suitable candidate should have 8+ years of IT experience with at least 5+ years of experience working as an AWS Data Engineer. He/ She should be able to deal with ambiguity.
• Experience in life insurance but not mandatory.

Key Responsibilities & Skillsets:

• Common Skillsets:
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills
• Should be able to work on a problem independently and prepare client ready deliverable with minimal or no supervision
• Good communication skill for client interaction

Application development Skillsets:

• Strong ability to debug complex data workflows, optimize application and ETL code, and automate data transformation processes
• Systematic, analytical problem‑solving approach with strong ownership over data quality, performance, and delivery
• Ability to quickly evaluate new AWS data and analytics services and determine fit for data pipelines or application architecture
• Hands‑on experience developing data workflows and infrastructure using IaC frameworks such as CloudFormation or Terraform (as needed)
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines primarily to support data application deployments (Jenkins, CodePipeline, etc.)
• Proficient with Git for versioning data processing code, libraries, and application components
• Skilled in writing production‑grade code in Python, Node.js, Bash, PowerShell, or similar , focusing on data processing and backend development
• Experience using Docker for packaging applications and data-processing workloads, with exposure to containerized data services (ECS, EKS, etc.)
• Comfortable developing and troubleshooting in Linux environments
• Solid understanding of key AWS data services and application primitives such as S3, EC2, Glue, EMR, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and VPC networking concepts
• Strong knowledge of AWS security and IAM as it relates to data pipelines, encryption (KMS), secure data access (IAM roles/policies), and audit controls
• Hands‑on experience with ETL, distributed compute, and big data frameworks such as Spark, Glue, Hadoop/EMR, Impala, or similar tooling
• Deep understanding of relational databases, SQL optimization, and application‑to‑database interaction patterns
• Familiarity with log analytics and observability platforms (Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana) as they relate to monitoring data pipelines and applications

Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in computer science/engineering, operations research or related analytics areas welcome to apply
• 8+ years’ experience in AWS Data Engineering, preferably in Life Insurance but not mandatory
• Application development experience
• Team Management
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Able to work in fast pace continuously evolving environment and ready to take up uphill challenges
• Can understand cross cultural and can work with clients across the globe