Title: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Hybrid, Burbank, CA
Compensation: $78-$88/hour
Duration: 4+ month contract
What We Do/Project

As part of the Studio Economics transformation, we are evolving how finance, business and technology collaborate, shifting to lean-agile, user-centric small product-oriented delivery teams (PODs) that deliver integrated, intelligent, scalable solutions, and bring together engineers, product owners, designers, data architects, and domain experts.

Each pod is empowered to own outcomes end-to-end—refining requirements, building solutions, testing, and delivering in iterative increments. We emphasize collaboration over handoffs, working software over documentation alone, and shared accountability for delivery. Engineers contribute not only code, but also to design reviews, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, ensuring decisions are transparent and scalable across pods. We prioritize reusability, automation, and continuous improvement, balancing rapid delivery with long-term maintainability.

The Senior Data Engineer plays a hands-on role within the Platform Pod, ensuring data pipelines, integrations, and services are performant, reliable, and reusable. This role partners closely with Data Architects, Cloud Architects, and application pods to deliver governed, AI/ML-ready data products.

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role
Design & Build Scalable Data Pipelines
• Lead development of batch and streaming pipelines using AWS-native tools (Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, Kinesis) and modern orchestration frameworks.
• Implement best practices for monitoring, resilience, and cost optimization in high-scale pipelines.
• Collaborate with architects to translate canonical and semantic data models into physical implementations.
Enable Analytics & AI/ML Workflows
• Build pipelines that deliver clean, well-structured data to analysts, BI tools, and ML pipelines.
• Work with data scientists to enable feature engineering and deployment of ML models into production environments.
Ensure Data Quality & Governance
• Embed validation, lineage, and anomaly detection into pipelines.
• Contribute to the enterprise data catalog and enforce schema alignment across pods.
• Partner with governance teams to implement role-based access, tagging, and metadata standards.
Mentor & Collaborate Across Pods
• Guide junior data engineers, sharing best practices in pipeline design and coding standards.
• Participate in pod ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint reviews) and program-level architecture syncs.
• Promote reusable services and reduce fragmentation by advocating platform-first approaches.

Must Have Skills / Requirements
1) Data Engineering Experinece with hands-on expertise in AWS services (Glue, Kinesis, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3) and orchestration tools (Airflow, Step Functions).
a. 7+ years of experience
2) Proven ability to optimize pipelines for both batch and streaming use cases.
a. 7+ years of experience
3) Knowledge of data governance practices, including lineage, validation, and cataloging.
a. 7+ years of experience

Nice to Have Skills / Preferred Requirements
1) Proven ability to optimize pipelines for both batch and streaming use cases.
2) Knowledge of data governance practices, including lineage, validation, and cataloging.
3) Strong collaboration and mentoring skills; ability to influence pods and domains.

Soft Skills:
1) Strong collaboration and mentoring skills; ability to influence pods and domains.

Technology Requirements:
1) Experience with data engineering, with hands-on expertise in AWS services (Glue, Kinesis, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3) and orchestration tools (Airflow, Step Functions).
2) Strong skills in SQL, Python, PySpark, and scripting for data transformations.
3) Experience working with modern data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift, Informatica).
4) Proven ability to optimize pipelines for both batch and streaming use cases.
5) Knowledge of data governance practices, including lineage, validation, and cataloging.

Education / Certifications
1) None

Years experience:

• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, with hands-on expertise in AWS services (Glue, Kinesis, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3) and orchestration tools (Airflow, Step Functions).

About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.
 INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.
 
 

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