Enterprise Cloud Data Engineer
*This is a 2-month contract position
*Hybrid – Local to Raleigh, NC only, please
Description:
This role serves as the technical and strategic lead for enterprise data integration across statewide programs and agencies. The Cloud Engineer designs, implements, and modernizes the enterprise landing zone, cloud ingestion patterns, and secure data pipelines, reengineering legacy feeds such as SFTP, Azure Blob, and batch pathways into scalable, automated, cloud-native services aligned with state security policies and compliance requirements.
The position collaborates with architects, security teams, vendors, and agency partners to ensure reliable, secure, standardized pipelines from ingestion through transformation and delivery, and it drives operational support across the full lifecycle.
Beyond integration, the role builds and maintains cloud-based data warehouse capabilities, including medallion structures (Bronze, Silver, Gold), to enable governed, analytics-ready transformations. It defines storage and partitioning conventions for performance and traceability, promotes governance alignment and privacy controls across frameworks such as HIPAA, CJIS, and NIST, and serves as the division’s ETL subject matter expert on metadata, lineage, and modeling. The engineer also advances innovation by evaluating emerging tools and AI-assisted development to improve reliability, efficiency, and readiness for future capabilities.
Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Cloud data engineering and integration, including modern lakehouse and medallion architectures, Required: 5 Years
- ETL and pipeline development with robust orchestration, error handling, validation, and lineage, Required: 5 Years
- Data quality, metadata management, and governance practices to ensure accuracy and compliance, Required: 3 Years
- Security and privacy alignment across frameworks such as HIPAA, CJIS, and NIST, plus DevSecOps awareness, Required: 3 Years
- Networking and cloud platform fundamentals, identity and access management, and distributed compute and storage in Azure, AWS, or SAS Viya, Required: 3 Years
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