Lead Data Engineer

Employment Type: Employee

Salary: $125,000 - $130,000 a year

Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid (2-3 days on-site per week)

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced AWS Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and manage robust, scalable, and high-performance data pipelines and data platforms on AWS. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in ETL fundamentals, data modeling, and modern data architecture, with hands-on expertise across a broad spectrum of AWS services.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS Glue, Spark (PySpark), and Step Functions.
• Work with structured and semi-structured data using Athena, S3, and Lake Formation to enable efficient querying and access control.
• Develop and deploy serverless data processing solutions using AWS Lambda and integrate them into pipeline orchestration.
• Perform advanced SQL and PL/SQL development for data transformation, analysis, and performance tuning.
• Build data lakes and data warehouses using S3, Aurora, and Athena.
• Implement data governance, security, and access control strategies using AWS tools including Lake Formation, CloudFront, EBS/EFS, and IAM.
• Develop and maintain metadata, lineage, and data cataloging capabilities.
• Participate in data modeling exercises for both OLTP and OLAP environments.
• Work closely with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver actionable insights.
• Monitor, debug, and optimize data pipelines for reliability and performance.

Required Skills & Experience

• Must have:

  • Python
  • SQL/PLSQL
  • AWS
  • Postgresql
  • S3
  • Glue

• Strong experience with AWS data services: Glue, Athena, Step Functions, Lambda, Lake Formation, S3, EC2, Aurora, EBS/EFS, CloudFront.

• Proficient in: PySpark, Python, SQL (basic and advanced), and PL/SQL.

• Solid understanding of ETL/ELT processes and data warehousing concepts.

• Familiarity with modern data platform fundamentals and distributed data processing.

• Experience in data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical) for analytical and operational use cases.

• Experience with orchestration and workflow management tools within AWS.

• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills across the data stack.

• Good to have:

  • CDK
  • GitHub

Primary Skills

• AWS
• Athena
• CloudFormation
• CloudWatch
• DynamoDB
• EMR
• Glue
• Kinesis
• Lake Formation
• Lambda
• Macie
• Open Search
• Postgresql
• Python
• Redshift
• S3
• SCT
• Spark - Scala
• SNS
• SQS
• SQL/PLSQL
• Step Functions

About Brillio

• DAI: https://www.brillio.com/services-data-analytics/
• Join Us: https://www.brillio.com/join-us/

Equal Employment Opportunity Declaration

Brillio is an equal opportunity employer to all, regardless of age, ancestry, colour, disability (mental and physical), exercising the right to family care and medical leave, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, political affiliation, race, religious creed, sex (includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), and sexual orientation.

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