Principal Data Engineer

Job Title: Principal Data Engineer

Location: Chicago (Hybrid)

Contract Length: 8-months

One of CloudHive's largest customers operating within the FinTech space requires a Principal Data Engineer with a strong track record of delivering production systems at scale in high-throughput transactional environments.

Requirements:

• Medallion lakehouse architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold): end-to-end standup and migration ownership in production
• Apache Iceberg: partition evolution, schema evolution, compaction, time travel, and catalog integration
• Aurora MySQL: schema management, CDC via Debezium, binlog replication, and OLTP performance tuning
• DynamoDB: table design, GSIs, TTL lifecycle, and multi-region operational constraints
• Snowflake: anti-pattern identification, cost driver analysis, compute right-sizing, and workload migration to lakehouse
• Kafka / Confluent: topic design, consumer group management, Debezium CDC connectors
• AWS: S3, LakeFormation, Glue, Lambda, IAM; security controls in PCI/PII environments
• dbt: Silver layer transformation orchestration, incremental models, and data quality tests
• Airflow: major version upgrades or migration to AWS MWAA
• PCI-DSS: payments or FinTech compliance experience in a regulated data environment