Senior Data Engineer
Engineers and Constructors International Inc. · Houston, TX
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Jul 20, 2026
Houston, TX
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A four-month contract role focused on designing, building, and optimizing enterprise data pipelines and big data platforms to support analytics and reporting. The work centers on cloud-based data engineering—primarily Azure, Databricks, Spark, Python, and SQL—with responsibilities spanning pipeline development, data architecture, stakeholder collaboration, and occasional mentoring of other engineers. Suits an independent, senior-level engineer comfortable in Agile, large-enterprise settings.
Senior level · 7+ years · Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4 people in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 2–7
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $118,582 (middle half $86,910–$144,182).
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 (7)
This is a 4-month contract engagement based in Houston, TX; no remote option is stated. Candidates must be US Citizens or Permanent Residents.
Azure is listed as 'preferred' within the cloud platform requirement ('Azure preferred'), but the broader cloud data platform experience is a hard gate — Azure is captured as required with alternatives, reflecting that the specific tool is preferred but cloud experience is mandatory.
CI/CD and Agile are listed under the required Qualifications section with softer language ('Familiarity with' and 'Experience working in'), but their placement in the hard-requirements block keeps them as required gates.
The role is genuinely ambiguous between 15-1243 (Database Architects — pipeline/warehouse building, ETL, data modeling) and 15-1252 (Software Developers — scalable pipeline code in Python/Spark/Databricks). 15-1243 was chosen as primary given the strong emphasis on enterprise data platform design, ETL/ELT, and data architecture; 15-1252 is the close runner-up given the hands-on coding emphasis.
No compensation figures were provided in the posting.
Preferred qualifications include experience supporting advanced analytics/reporting platforms, leading technical workstreams or mentoring engineers, and working in large enterprise environments — none name specific technologies, so no additional preferred skills were added.
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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