AWS Data Engineer at Insight Global
Newark, NJ
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Jun 30, 2026
Newark, NJ
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A data engineering role focused on designing, building, and maintaining scalable pipelines and cloud data architectures on AWS. The work involves collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver data solutions spanning data lakes, warehouses, and ETL/ELT workflows. Suits an experienced engineer with strong AWS, Python, and SQL skills and a background in enterprise-scale data platforms.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Bachelor's required
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How this req sits in the market our data
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).
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 (8)
No work location or metro area is specified in the posting; CBSA is left blank. The role is posted through Insight Global (a staffing firm), so the actual client location is unknown.
The degree requirement is stated as a hard gate in the requirements block with no 'or equivalent experience' language, so it is treated as a minimum hard requirement.
Shell scripting is listed in the requirements block with 'working knowledge of' — softer language, but it sits firmly in the required qualifications section.
Spark/EMR appears in the requirements block with 'e.g.' framing, suggesting it is illustrative of a broader serverless/modern data processing requirement rather than a strict gate on those specific tools; however, given its placement in the required section it is retained as required with EMR as an alternative.
Kinesis and Kafka appear under the 'Skills and Requirements' secondary section alongside AWS certification and Terraform — that section reads as a mix of preferred/nice-to-have additions based on its framing ('The ideal candidate will…'), so these are marked preferred.
Terraform/CloudFormation and data governance knowledge also appear in the same secondary 'Skills and Requirements' block and are marked preferred accordingly.
AWS Solution Architect or Developer certification is mentioned in the secondary section as a preferred qualification; it names no specific technology tool and is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
The role is classified as 15-1243 (Database Architects) given its primary focus on designing and building data pipelines, data lakes, and warehouses; 15-1252 (Software Developers) is noted as a close alternative given the strong hands-on programming emphasis.
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