What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead AWS Data Engineer - W2 Only / NYC, NY / Vishal position at Ampcus Inc?
Role: Lead Data Engineer / Lead Data Engineer Onsite
Location: NY-5MW / Manhattan West, New York
Required Visa: & holders
Type: Contract to hire W2
Hiring Manager Call Highlights
- This is a hands-on senior engineering role, not an associate-level or purely architectural position.
- Approximately 60% data processing/data ecosystem work and 40% general programming, potentially in Python or Java.
- Python fundamentals matter beyond PySpark syntax. Candidates may be questioned on language internals, programming fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms.
- Spark is foundational. AWS EMR and Glue ETL are highly relevant, but strong Spark candidates from Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, Hadoop, or comparable ecosystems may be considered.
- The team expects end-to-end data thinking: modeling, wrangling, pipelines, storage, quality, security, monitoring, and operational resilience.
- Candidates must collaborate, coach, document decisions, and explain how their work contributed to a team outcome.
- Rsum claims will be tested. The interview may include live Python coding and technical deep dives.
Required Skills
- Strong Python programming fundamentals and hands-on coding ability (Java may complement, but not replace, the requested Python depth).
- Strong Apache Spark / PySpark fundamentals, including distributed processing and performance considerations.
- 5 10 years of relevant data engineering or big-data processing experience, with senior/lead-level scope.
- Practical data engineering across pipelines, modeling, warehouses/lakes, migration, quality, storage, access, and analytics.
- Working knowledge of data structures and algorithms; able to reason through lists, stacks, queues, complexity, and solution design.
- System design, application development, testing, debugging, operational stability, and SQL/database querying.
- Clear, credible communication: explains when, where, why, and how each key rsum skill was used.
- Teamwork and technical leadership: collaboration, coaching, documentation, and ownership.
Salary : $120,000 - $160,000