Data Engineer (ETL)
Randstad Digital Americas · Triangle, NC
$75–$76/hrfrom the description
Jun 29, 2026
Triangle, NC
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
Senior level · 10+ years · Durham-Chapel Hill, NC · Bachelor's required · Contract
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2 people in the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 1–3
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 $141,770 (middle half $117,870–$161,470). 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 (8)
The role is classified as a data engineering position primarily building and deploying ETL/Spark pipelines and data lake solutions, making it a close call between 15-1243 (Database Architects, covering data pipeline/warehouse building) and 15-1252 (Software Developers, given the heavy Java/Scala application development emphasis).
The '10+ years' experience requirement is stated in the context of 'developing Spark Services for Data movement' — this is treated as the overall role-level experience floor.
Cassandra and Yugabyte are listed as interchangeable NoSQL target options ('ex Cassandra or Yugabyte'); Yugabyte is captured as an alternative.
Parquet and HDF5 are listed as examples of large-dataset storage formats; HDF5 is captured as an alternative to Parquet.
AWS is listed as the primary cloud provider example ('like AWS'); Azure and GCP are captured as well-known interchangeable alternatives.
The Bachelor's degree is listed under the 'Responsibilities' section but reads as a hard requirement ('Bachelor's degree in computer science…'), so it is treated as required.
This is a Randstad Digital staffing/contract posting; the end-client is not named.
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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