Senior Data Platform Engineer at Eliassen Group
Frankfort, KY
$70–$75/hrfrom the description
Jul 27, 2026
Frankfort, KY
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A remote contract-to-hire role focused on owning and maturing enterprise data pipeline infrastructure for a manufacturing client. The engineer will build and operate Apache Airflow/Astronomer orchestration, CI/CD automation, and Azure Data Factory pipelines across dev/QA/UAT/production environments, while establishing testing, observability, and reliability standards. Strong fit for a hands-on data platform or data engineering professional with deep Airflow and Azure experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 160 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 70–240
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,921 (middle half $81,361–$138,439). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
This role sits at the intersection of data pipeline engineering (Airflow/ADF orchestration, ETL) and platform/DevOps engineering (CI/CD, environment management, observability). SOC 15-1243 (Database Architects) was chosen for its emphasis on pipeline architecture and data platform design; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is a close runner-up given the heavy CI/CD automation and Python development scope.
The posting is contract-to-hire (W2 basis), with conversion to FTE after the contract period. The $70–$75/hr rate reflects the W2 contract phase only.
A Bachelor's degree in a relevant field is listed as preferred, not required; equivalent professional experience is explicitly accepted, so no minimum degree is flagged.
Azure DevOps Pipelines is listed under Preferred alongside GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins — these are treated as interchangeable alternatives for the CI/CD tooling preference.
VaultSpeed / Data Vault 2.0 appears in the Preferred section but names a methodology/product combination with limited canonical naming; it was omitted as it does not resolve to a single widely-used tool name. Hiring managers should note this preference if Data Vault modeling experience is important.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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