Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer

Farmington Hills, MI

Type: Contract

Category: Data

Industry: Financial Services

Standard Hours: Open

Reference ID: JN -112026-109348

Date Posted: 11/03/2026

Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/k4bvV6

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Description:

On-site in Farmington Hills, MI

Our client seeks a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and support scalable and secure data solutions for enterprise Wealth & Asset Management applications. The role focuses on data ingestion, transformation, storage, integration, quality, governance, and processing across structured and unstructured data sources.

We can facilitate w2 and corp-to-corp consultants. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $ to $78.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop scalable data ingestion and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Build solutions for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Develop reusable data-processing and transformation components using Python and SQL.
• Design and support data models using PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and Amazon S3.
• Support document ingestion and extraction using Amazon Textract, where applicable.
• Prepare and transform data for application, search, analytics, and AI-enabled use cases.
• Support vector-based retrieval using PostgreSQL/pgvector, where required.
• Implement data quality, validation, reconciliation, metadata, lineage, retention, and governance controls.
• Implement secure data access and encryption for sensitive information.
• Optimize data pipelines and databases for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost.
• Implement monitoring and troubleshoot data-processing and integration issues.
• Collaborate with application, AI, DevOps, architecture, cybersecurity, and business teams.

Experience Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience with Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, DynamoDB, and S3.
• Experience developing and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines and data-processing workflows.
• Experience with data modeling, APIs, JSON, Parquet, and pgvector.
• Understanding of data quality, metadata, governance, security, and operational monitoring.
• Experience working within large enterprise or regulated environments.
• Experience supporting document-processing and AI-enabled data solutions.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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