Data Engineer at Strategic Staffing Solutions
Atascocita, TX
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Jul 13, 2026
Atascocita, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior hands-on engineering role focused on building and optimizing cloud-based data pipelines and platforms to support AI, analytics, and machine learning workloads within an energy sector business unit. The work spans pipeline design, data architecture, infrastructure automation, and data quality, with a cross-functional collaboration component involving data scientists and AI engineers. The role also carries a mentorship and technical leadership responsibility over junior engineers.
Senior level · 10+ years · Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX · Contract
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 15 people in the Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 5–20
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 $142,159 (middle half $122,005–$172,951).
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)
This is a W2-only contract (12+ months); C2C is explicitly excluded. Visa sponsorship is stated as available.
The degree requirement lists a Bachelor's in CS/Engineering/Information Systems 'or equivalent experience,' so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Cloud platform requirement is AWS, Azure, or GCP — AWS is listed as the primary name with Azure and GCP captured as alternatives on that skill.
Distributed processing is framed as 'Spark or Databricks'; Databricks is captured as an alternative to Spark since either satisfies the requirement.
Orchestration is framed as 'Airflow, ADF, or AWS Glue'; Airflow is listed as primary with the others as alternatives.
Data modeling, data architecture, data integration, and experience with structured/unstructured data appear in the Required section but name no specific tool or technology, so they are not emitted as discrete skills per extraction rules.
The alt SOC 15-1252 (Software Developers) is noted because the role involves significant pipeline and platform engineering code, not just data architecture design.
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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