[Remote] Data Engineer - Manager

Note The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PeopleCaddie is a large public accounting firm seeking a Senior Data Engineer to advance their enterprise-wide data strategy. The role involves designing and maintaining data platforms and pipelines to support analytics, reporting, and AI-driven insights. Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable and resilient data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and delivering data from diverse internal and external sources Integrate data across databases, data warehouses, APIs, and third-party platforms while ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and integrity Apply data cleansing, validation, aggregation, enrichment, and transformation techniques to prepare analytics-ready datasets Optimize data pipelines and processing workflows for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency Monitor and tune data systems; identify performance bottlenecks and implement indexing, caching, and optimization strategies Embed data quality checks, validation rules, and governance controls directly within data pipelines Collaborate with architects, data scientists, AI engineers, and analysts to support advanced analytics, business intelligence, and AI/ML use cases Take ownership and accountability for maximizing the value of enterprise data assets used for insights, automation, and decision support Clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership Skills Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related quantitative field 8+ years of experience in data engineering, including Data modeling and architecture, ETL / ELT and data integration, Data warehousing and analytics platforms, Data quality, master data management, and governance, Business intelligence and advanced analytics (predictive and prescriptive) Strong programming experience with Python, SQL, Java, and/or C# Hands-on Experience With Modern Data Platforms And Tools, Including Microsoft Azure technologies (SQL Server IaaS/PaaS, Synapse, Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, HDInsight, Fabric, Power BI), Informatica Cloud (CIH, DIH, CDGC, Master Data Management, Data Quality), Snowflake and other leading cloud data technologies Company Overview The talent cloud for the highly-skilled gig economy. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https//www.peoplecaddie.com/. Company H1B Sponsorship PeopleCaddie has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2024, 1 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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