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Senior Data Engineer
 Spectraforce Technologies | |
 United States, New Jersey, Newark | |
 Aug 21, 2026 | |
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Title: Senior Data Engineer Duration: 06 months (potential to hire) Location: Newark, NJ 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. o Implement: Relationship, joins, standardization, transformations * Apply enterprise naming conventions and business metadata standards. Data Engineering * 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. Performance Optimization * 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: o Virtual Data Models o Data Integration o SQL o Data Warehousing o Dimensional Modeling * Experience with: o AWS Lambda o ETL/ELT development o APIs and Web Services o Data Product development * Experience implementing: o Join strategies o Aggregations o Union operations o Data standardization frameworks Preferred Qualifications * Exposure to: o AI/Agent engineering ecosystems o LLMOps concepts | |