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[Remote] Senior Data Engineer – AWS, Databricks & Palantir Foundry

🌍 Remote · Canada 💼 Full-time

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The hiring client is a confidential IT services and consulting company. The Senior Data Engineer will architect and implement scalable data platforms using AWS, Databricks, and Palantir Foundry, aligning secure and cost-efficient solutions with business outcomes.

Responsibilities

  • Architect role in a global enterprise focusing on design and implementation of scalable data platforms using AWS, Databricks and Palantir Foundry in a hybrid work model for day shift with no travel requirement, ensuring secure, reliable and cost efficient solutions that align with business outcomes and social impact objectives
  • Design robust data architectures on AWS that support analytics, reporting and machine learning workloads while ensuring scalability, performance and security compliance
  • Develop end to end data processing solutions using Databricks that optimize data ingestion, transformation and aggregation for diverse business domains
  • Coordinate integration of Palantir Foundry platforms with existing enterprise systems to enable unified data views and reusable analytical assets
  • Implement data modelling practices that standardize reference data, master data and domain specific schemas to support consistent decision making across teams
  • Optimize cloud resource usage on AWS by refining storage patterns, compute configurations and scheduling strategies to balance cost and performance
  • Create reusable templates and patterns for data pipelines using Databricks notebooks and jobs to accelerate project delivery and promote engineering standards
  • Establish monitoring practices and observability dashboards for data pipelines and platforms so that data quality, latency and availability expectations are continuously met
  • Guide application and data teams in adopting architectural principles such as modular design, resilience and security by design to reduce operational risks
  • Collaborate with stakeholder groups to translate business requirements into technical blueprints that clearly define data flows, service responsibilities and integration points
  • Document architecture decisions, diagrams and data lineage in an accessible form so that engineering and governance teams can maintain and evolve the platforms effectively
  • Review code, configurations and infrastructure definitions for AWS, Databricks and Palantir Foundry implementations to ensure compliance with enterprise standards
  • Align architectural roadmaps with company sustainability and social impact goals by supporting data products that improve transparency, efficiency and ethical insights
  • Participate in hybrid collaboration rituals using digital tools and on site sessions to maintain effective communication, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement

Skills

  • Experience: 6 to 10 Yrs
  • Possess professional experience of six to ten years working in data engineering or data architecture roles with emphasis on large scale cloud environments
  • Demonstrate strong practical expertise in core AWS services related to compute, storage, networking and security used for modern data platforms
  • Exhibit hands on proficiency with Databricks including cluster configuration, notebook development, job orchestration and performance tuning for batch and streaming workloads
  • Show proven experience implementing data solutions with Palantir Foundry such as data onboarding, ontology design and operational analytic workflows
  • Apply solid understanding of data warehousing, lakehouse patterns, data governance and metadata management to design consistent enterprise data ecosystems
  • Use programming skills in languages such as Python and SQL to build, test and troubleshoot complex data transformations and integrations across platforms
  • Display familiarity with modern DevOps and data operations practices including version control, continuous integration and automated testing for data pipelines

Benefits

  • Health Benefits
  • Referral Program
  • Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
  • Hybrid work model

Company Overview

  • ABOUT ICONMA provides Professional Staffing Services & Project-Based Solutions for a broad range of Fortune 500 organizations. It was founded in 2000, and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.iconma.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • ICONMA has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 22 in 2026, 34 in 2025, 31 in 2024, 26 in 2023, 39 in 2022, 37 in 2021, 69 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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