Data Engineer / Data Platform Engineer (Python, Pyspark)
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Overview
Remote
On-site
Compensation
$54-$54/hour
Job Description
Our client, a IT Services and Consulting company, is looking for a Data Engineer / Data Platform Engineer (Python, PySpark) for their Charlotte, NC location.Responsibilities:
- Financial Crimes Technology team is evolving toward more in-house build capabilities and reducing dependency on legacy vendor/tooling approaches.
- This role will support data engineering and platform development for financial crimes use cases (AML, investigations, sanctions, fraud, KYC) by building scalable pipelines, improving data quality, and enabling analytics/reporting and downstream applications.
- Build and maintain batch and/or streaming data pipelines supporting financial crimes initiatives.
- Develop data transformations using Python+ PySpark and optimize performance for large datasets.
- Apply strong understanding of Apache Spark architecture (executors, partitions, shuffles, joins, caching) to improve performance
- Partner with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into data models, mappings, and curated datasets.
- Support ingestion from multiple sources (transactional systems, case management, reference data, etc.).
- Implement data quality checks, reconciliation, and controls to ensure auditability and reliability.
- Contribute to modernization efforts (legacy → in-house build) including migration planning and redesign.
- Create documentation for pipelines, logic, and operational runbooks.
- Work within Agile delivery (Jira), supporting sprint execution and delivery timelines.
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering / ETL / data platform development
- Experience working with large-scale data sets and performance tuning.
- Strong understanding of data concepts: data modeling, lineage, metadata, governance
- Experience supporting regulated environments with emphasis on controls and audit readiness
- Strong communication skills (ability to work with both engineering + business partners
- Experience running PySpark workloads on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Dataproc, BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), etc.
- Experience with cloud native Big Data platforms
- Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance practices
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines for data engineering workloads
- Orchestration: Airflow (or similar scheduling tools)
- Streaming: Kafka
- Lakehouse/Warehouse: Databricks / Snowflake / BigQuery
- CI/CD + DevOps: Git, pipelines, automation, release management
- Data governance/security: encryption, access controls, data masking, PII handling
- Prior Financial Crimes domain: AML / sanctions / fraud / investigations / KYC
- Experience supporting AML, Transaction Monitoring, Investigations, Sanctions screening, Fraud, or similar risk/compliance functions.
- Familiarity with regulatory expectations and strong documentation discipline
- Years of experience:
- 9.00 Years of Experience
- Strong hands-on development in:
- Python
- PySpark / Apache Spark
- Advanced SQL
- Health Benefits
- Referral Program
- Excellent growth and advancement opportunities
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This job at Iconma is located in Charlotte, NC, according to the details provided by the employer. Some roles may also include multiple work locations depending on the requirement.
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