Senior Data Engineer (Big Data / Spark)

Job Description

Paxton Consultants is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to build and maintain large-scale distributed data pipelines and lakehouse architecture that support analytics and machine learning workloads. You will design systems that are reliable, efficient, and easy to evolve. Key Responsibilities • Design and build batch and streaming pipelines with Spark and Kafka • Develop and optimize data models and transformations in cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake or Databricks • Ensure data quality, lineage, and observability across pipelines • Tune performance and manage cost of large-scale processing workloads • Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and platform teams to deliver trusted datasets • Mentor other engineers and promote data engineering best practices This is a contract engagement. This is a remote position open to candidates across the US.