AI Data Engineer
PEAK Technical Staffing
Gaithersburg, MD
JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Gaithersburg, MD
POSTED
1 day ago
You will be responsible for building intelligent, scalable data pipelines and automations that integrate cloud services, enterprise tools, and Generative AI to support mission-critical analytics, reporting, and customer engagement platforms. Ideal candidate is mission focused, delivery oriented, applies critical thinking to create innovative functions and solve technical issues.
In this role, you will:
- Design and maintain data pipelines in AWS using S3, RDS/SQL Server, Glue, Lambda, EMR, DynamoDB, and Step Functions.
- Develop ETL/ELT processes to move data from multiple data systems including DynamoDB → SQL Server (AWS) and between AWS ↔ Azure SQL systems.
- Integrate AWS Connect, Nice inContact CRM data into the enterprise data pipeline for analytics and operational reporting.
- Engineer, enhance ingestion pipelines with Apache Spark, Flume, Kafka for real-time and batch processing into Apache Solr, AWS Open Search platforms.
- Leverage Generative AI services and Frameworks (AWS Bedrock, Amazon Q, Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain) to:
- Create automated processes for vector generation and embedding from unstructured data to support Generative AI models.
- Automate data quality checks, metadata tagging, and lineage tracking.
- Enhance ingestion/ETL with LLM-assisted transformation and anomaly detection.
- Build conversational BI interfaces that allow natural language access to Solr and SQL data.
- Develop AI-powered copilots for pipeline monitoring and automated troubleshooting.
- Implement SQL Server stored procedures, indexing, query optimization, profiling, and execution plan tuning to maximize performance.
- Apply CI/CD best practices using GitHub, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps for both data pipelines and GenAI model integration.
- Ensure security and compliance through IAM, KMS encryption, VPC isolation, RBAC, and firewalls.
- Support Agile DevOps processes with sprint-based delivery of pipeline and AI-enabled features.
Required Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of data engineering, automation experiences.
- Hands-on experience with LLM, Generative AI frameworks using AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI or open-source platform.
- Hands-on experience with SQL, SSIS, Python, Spark, Bash, Power shell, AWS/Azure CLIs.
- Experience with AWS services like S3, RDS/SQL Server, Glue, Lambda, EMR, DynamoDB.
- Familiarity with Apache Flume, Kafka, Solr for large-scale data ingestion and search.
- Experience with integrating REST API calls in data pipelines and workflows.
- Familiarity with JIRA, GitHub / Azure DevOps / Jenkins for SDLC and CI/CD automation.
- Strong troubleshooting and performance optimization skills in SQL, Spark or other data engineering solutions.
- Experience operationalizing Generative AI (GenAI Ops) pipelines, including model deployment, monitoring, retraining, and lifecycle management for LLMs and AI-enabled data workflows.
- Good communication and presentation skills.
About the Company
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PEAK Technical Staffing
For over 50 years, PEAK has excelled in providing comprehensive staffing and workforce solutions. We go beyond traditional staffing to offer a holistic, on-demand workforce model, addressing every facet of your workforce needs.
COMPANY SIZE
500 to 999 employeesINDUSTRY
Staffing/Employment Agencies
FOUNDED
1968
WEBSITE
http://www.peaktechnical.com