Senior Data Engineer at ManpowerGroup
Loveland, CO
$60–$70/hrfrom the description
Jul 23, 2026
Loveland, CO
Jul 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A remote contract role on an enterprise Digital Data Platform team at an agriculture and crop solutions company. The work centers on building and maintaining AWS-based data pipelines and a Redshift data warehouse — covering ETL/ELT development with PySpark and Apache Iceberg, schema and data modeling, quality validation, and CI/CD-managed deployments. Suits an experienced data engineer comfortable working independently across multiple internal data product teams.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,450 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 420–2,150
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). 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)
The role is posted by ManpowerGroup/Experis (a staffing firm) on behalf of an agriculture client — the $60–70/hr pay range and contract-style framing strongly indicate this is a contract/W2 engagement rather than a direct full-time hire.
SOC classification is a genuine toss-up: the role centers on building and optimizing data pipelines, warehouse schema design, and ETL/ELT (pointing to 15-1243 Database Architects), but the emphasis on writing PySpark/Python code and CI/CD deployments also fits 15-1252 Software Developers.
The degree requirement ('Bachelor's degree … or a related field') is stated as a hard gate alongside the 5+ years experience requirement, with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause, so it is treated as required.
Apache Iceberg is listed with the qualifier 'or similar open table formats'; Delta Lake and Apache Hudi are the primary interchangeable alternatives captured in the alternatives field.
Liquibase is listed as an example of 'database migration tools such as Liquibase' — the qualifier 'such as' means the specific tool is interchangeable, but the capability (database migration tooling) is a hard gate from the requirements section.
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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