This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: Alabama (USA) Data Engineer III – Data Ingestion & Platform Modernization Remote (working CST) 6- month contract Pay Rate: $70.00 - $77.00per hr. Our client needs a Data Engineer -This role supports a major enterprise data modernization initiative within a large banking environment. The organization is actively migrating from on-prem systems and a legacy Cloudera-based data lake into a Snowflake-based cloud data platform, while also supporting multiple high-priority business and regulatory initiatives. This position is part of a highly visible engineering team responsible for building and maintaining scalable data ingestion pipelines across multiple enterprise systems. Key Business Initiatives Supported

• Project Turbo (top profitability initiative): improving small business checking processes
• R2 (top deposit initiative): enabling enterprise-wide data availability for testing and iteration
• Open banking regulatory data ingestion (non-Kafka streaming required for this role)
• Enterprise data lake modernization and migration into Snowflake

Core Responsibilities

• Build and support end-to-end data ingestion pipelines from multiple source systems into Snowflake
• Move and transform data from on-prem environments into cloud platforms
• Support ingestion from diverse data sources:
• Flat files
• RDBMS systems (Oracle, SQL Server)
• Mainframe extracts
• SSIS-based pipelines
• Work with ingestion/orchestration tools such as Precisely and Click
• Perform data obfuscation and transformation as required
• Move data into AWS S3 landing zones and Snowflake staging/landing layers
• Develop and optimize SQL for complex transformations and joins
• Support Python-based data engineering scripts and workflows
• Contribute to ingestion pipeline re-engineering and optimization
• Integrate data from enterprise systems including SharePoint and Jira into Snowflake

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Strong experience in data engineering and big data environments
• Advanced SQL (complex joins, optimization, performance tuning)
• Python development experience
• Snowflake experience
• Cloudera or similar big data platform experience
• Experience with ingestion tools such as Precisely and Click
• Understanding of enterprise data ingestion patterns
• Experience with multiple data sources (RDBMS, flat files, mainframe, APIs)

Bonus Skills:

• AWS S3 experience
• Experience with Jira and SharePoint data extraction/integration
• Experience working in highly regulated or banking environments

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