Senior AWS Data Engineer

About this role

Job Title: Senior AWS Data Engineer


Job Category: Engineering


Time Type: Full time


Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None


Employee Type: Regular


Percentage of Travel Required: None


Type of Travel: None


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The Opportunity
The Senior AWS Data Engineer plays a key role in sustaining and modernizing a mission system that supports HHS grant award management, reporting, and compliance. This position is an opportunity to provide technical leadership in cloud-based data intake and storage, automating complex data ingestion workflows, and ensuring the reliability of systems. The role combines hands-on technical engineering with operational support, making it ideal for candidates who thrive in both modernization and O&M environments.


Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable ETL pipelines across AWS Glue, DMS, Redshift, and supporting services.
• Automate ingestion of external data sources, including Assistance Listings and aggregate award datasets.
• Improve system operational efficiency and support data quality processes related to reporting and USASpending submissions.
• Provide daily operational support for AWS infrastructure: Glue jobs, Redshift tuning, DMS tasks, Lambda, S3, IAM, and troubleshooting.
• Offer assistance with Oracle database performance tuning, indexing strategies, and PL/SQL‑based business rules.
• Assist maintain and troubleshoot validation and processing logic embedded in Oracle stored procedures and .NET applications.
• Deliver O&M support and provide capacity for system reliability and enhancements.
• Contribute to CI/CD automation and infrastructure-as-code development using Bitbucket, Jenkins, and Terraform.

Qualifications
*Required:*

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or cloud data platform roles.
• 5+ years of hands-on AWS ...