Senior Data Engineer
Jersey City, NJ
Date Posted:31-Aug-2026
Work Type:On-Site
Job Number:496631
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Local to NJ (Hybrid mode preferred but we are open for remote too)
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Data Engineer with strong Denodo experience to design, build, and maintain scalable virtualized data products and semantic-layer solutions. The ideal candidate will have expertise in data integration, virtualization, API enablement, and cloud-based ETL development.
This role will partner closely with Solution Architects, Tech Leads, AI Engineers, and Business SMEs to deliver trusted, governed, and AI-consumable data assets.
Key Responsibilities
Denodo Development
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Exposure to:
Location: Local to NJ (Hybrid mode preferred but we are open for remote too)
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Data Engineer with strong Denodo experience to design, build, and maintain scalable virtualized data products and semantic-layer solutions. The ideal candidate will have expertise in data integration, virtualization, API enablement, and cloud-based ETL development.
This role will partner closely with Solution Architects, Tech Leads, AI Engineers, and Business SMEs to deliver trusted, governed, and AI-consumable data assets.
Key Responsibilities
Denodo Development
- Develop and maintain layers of views;
- Build virtualized data products using Denodo best practices.
- Implement: Relationship, joins, standardization, transformations
- Apply enterprise naming conventions and business metadata standards.
- Build and support ETL/ELT pipelines using AWS services.
- Integrate data from multiple source systems, APIs, cloud platforms, and operational applications.
- Support creation of canonical data models and semantic-layer entities.
- Develop reusable data transformation components.
- Optimize Denodo query performance.
- Implement caching and accelerator strategies.
- Tune joins, aggregations, and virtualized query execution.
- Troubleshoot complex performance and integration issues.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of Data Engineering experience.
- 3+ years of Denodo development experience.
- Strong knowledge of:
- Virtual Data Models
- Data Integration
- SQL
- Data Warehousing
- Dimensional Modeling
- Experience with:
- AWS Lambda
- ETL/ELT development
- APIs and Web Services
- Data Product development
- Experience implementing:
- Join strategies
- Aggregations
- Union operations
- Data standardization frameworks
Preferred Qualifications
Exposure to:
- AI/Agent engineering ecosystems
- LLMOps concepts
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's pay range is $68.00/hr – $70.00/hr.