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Data Engineer – AI / ML

Chamberlain Advisors
Deerfield, IL Contractor
POSTED ON 12/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/28/2026
Title: Data Engineer – AI / ML

Location: Hybrid, 3 days/week – Deerfield, IL

Duration & Type: Initial 6-Month Contract

Compensation: Competitive W2 Hourly Rate ($60.75-$61.45), Access to Healthcare and Dental Insurance Plan of Choice. (Benefit Plans can be requested at time of submission to client)

Summary

Chamberlain Advisors is seeking a Data Engineer – AI / ML to support a Clinical Trials–focused data science organization. This role is responsible for enabling data operations, advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI initiatives by building reliable, scalable data pipelines and optimizing modern data architectures. The Data Engineer will partner closely with data scientists and analytics teams to ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality data delivery that supports critical business and research functions. This role blends hands-on engineering with architectural guidance and continuous optimization. Click Apply Now to join the Chamberlain experience.

What You’ll Be Accountable For

  • Write and maintain complex SQL queries across large, real-time datasets to generate recurring data extracts.
  • Develop, maintain, and optimize scalable ELT and ML pipelines using Python and Databricks.
  • Automate workflows and implement robust data quality checks across pipelines.
  • Refactor existing pipelines to improve efficiency, maintainability, and configuration management.
  • Configure, tune, and optimize Databricks and Snowflake environments.
  • Migrate data pipelines and tables across development, test, and production environments.
  • Build Power BI dashboards to support analytics, monitoring, and data quality validation.
  • Advise on data architecture best practices with a focus on scalability, performance, and reliability.
  • Document system designs, data flows, dependencies, and integration points.
  • Collaborate with analytics and data science teams to support ML and generative AI workflows.

What Qualifications You Need

  • 3–6 years of professional experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or related roles.
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure (or comparable cloud platforms).
  • Advanced SQL expertise, including: Query optimization and performance tuning / Complex joins, window functions, CTEs, and dynamic SQL / Stored procedures and advanced aggregations (ROLLUP, CUBE) / Pivot/unpivot operations / Handling semi-structured data (JSON/XML)
  • Strong Python programming skills for analytics, automation, orchestration, and pipeline development.
  • Experience designing data architectures to support large-scale analytics, ML, and AI workloads.
  • Experience building dashboards in Power BI and analytics applications in Streamlit.
  • Exposure to developing and deploying ML and Generative AI pipelines, including integration with training and inference workflows.
  • Familiarity with streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka) is a plus.
  • Experience working with healthcare-related datasets (e.g., prescriptions, insurance claims, electronic health records) is a plus.
  • Strong analytical, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

About The Client

Our client is seeking innovative and intelligent individuals to join their team. Here is your opportunity to join one of the largest healthcare and retail pharmacy companies in the U.S, with more than 10 million customers, over 8,000 retail stores, and a presence in multiple countries. Our client is constantly creating groundbreaking ways to meet customer needs, improve their health, and be a force for good in the world. This is your chance to work in a truly supportive environment and be a part of a progressive organization dedicated to the well-being of their customers, team members, and communities.

Why Work with Chamberlain?

Chamberlain Advisors is a veteran-owned business that provides human capital solutions through contract, contract-to-hire, direct-hire, and retained-search opportunities. Chamberlain candidates benefit from our unique hiring and interviewing process which has been designed to increase the likelihood that they will be successful in their job searches. This is achieved through our 5-step recruitment process, ensuring a top-of-the-line candidate experience. Find out what makes us different; apply to Chamberlain today.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Chamberlain Advisors provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Chamberlain Advisors complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Chamberlain Advisors expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Chamberlain Advisors' employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

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