Deloitte US

The Data Foundations Engineer designs and scales modern data architectures powering Wallet, Payments, and Commerce products. This role focuses on building high-performance data pipelines and enabling analytics and ML use cases, with strong fundamentals in data modeling and scalable systems.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Data Engineering & Architecture

• Design and implement scalable batch and near-real-time data pipelines.
• Develop ETL/ELT workflows optimized for performance and cost.
• Implement dimensional data models and standardize business metrics.
• Instrument APIs and user journeys to capture behavioral and transactional data.

Data Governance & Quality

• Ensure data integrity, governance, privacy, and compliance.
• Maintain reliability and availability of mission-critical systems.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of experience in data engineering for analytics or ML systems.
• Strong SQL proficiency.
• Experience in Python, Scala, or Java.
• Hands-on experience with Spark, Kafka, and Airflow (or similar).
• Strong understanding of data modeling and lakehouse architecture (e.g., Iceberg).
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Comfortably participating in rotating on call.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Trino, OLAP/NRT systems, Superset or Tableau.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, data observability, infrastructure-as-code.
• Exposure to MLOps and GenAI/RAG pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG).
• Experience in FinTech, Wallet, or Payment’s domain.

The expected pay range for this contract assignment is $65-$75 per hour.  The exact pay rate will vary based on skills, experience, and location and will be determined by the third-party whose employees provide services to Deloitte.   

Candidates interested in applying for this opportunity must be geographically based in the United States and must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.

We do not accept agency resumes and are not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. 

Deloitte is not the employer for this role.  

This work is contracted through a third-party whose employees provide services to Deloitte. 

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