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Data Engineer

Remote
Part-Time
$60 - $82 / hour
Posted Mar 20, 2026

About This Role

We are hiring a Data Engineer to design and support reliable data pipelines, warehouse models, and transformation workflows for client reporting and analytics needs. This part-time remote role suits an engineer who is comfortable building production-grade data systems, improving data quality, and partnering with analysts, architects, and business stakeholders across distributed teams.

This position is fully remote within the United States and follows a flexible part-time schedule with regular u.s. eastern time overlap.

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, validation, and delivery
  • Develop warehouse schemas and dbt models that support scalable analytics and reporting
  • Implement data quality checks, alerting, and documentation to improve trust in business data
  • Optimize query performance, storage usage, and pipeline reliability in cloud environments
  • Work with analysts, product owners, and client stakeholders to clarify data requirements and priorities
  • Troubleshoot data issues, failed jobs, and schema changes with a focus on root-cause resolution
  • Maintain clear documentation for models, sources, lineage, and business logic
  • Contribute to practical standards around naming, testing, deployment, and governance

Requirements

  • 4+ years of hands-on data engineering experience in production environments
  • Strong SQL skills and professional experience with Python for pipeline, transformation, or orchestration work
  • Experience with modern cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Synapse
  • Hands-on knowledge of dbt, Airflow, Prefect, Spark, or comparable ETL/ELT tooling
  • Strong understanding of data modeling, dimensional design, lineage, and data quality practices
  • Experience integrating data from APIs, SaaS platforms, transactional systems, and flat-file sources
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and basic infrastructure, IAM, and storage concepts
  • Experience with Git, CI/CD, testing, and observability for data workflows
  • Ability to explain technical tradeoffs and data constraints to non-technical stakeholders
  • Availability for a consistent part-time schedule with regular U.S. Eastern Time overlap

Benefits & Perks

  • Flexible remote part-time schedule with meaningful project ownership
  • Competitive hourly compensation aligned to current U.S. data engineering market levels
  • Work with modern data stack tools across cloud-based client environments
  • Exposure to analytics, warehousing, and integration problems with real business impact
  • Collaborative engineering culture with room to influence architecture decisions
  • Longer-term growth path into senior data engineering or solution design work
  • Access to certification and skill-development support for active contributors

Apply for This Role

Send your resume and a brief introduction to the dedicated email below. Our team reviews all applications within 3–5 business days.

This role is fully remote within the United States.

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LocationRemote
ApplicantsUnited States
TypePart-Time
HoursFlexible part-time
Salary$60 - $82 / hour
PostedMar 20, 2026