Data Engineer

Job Description
Nisum is a leading global digital commerce firm headquartered in California, with services spanning digital strategy and transformation, insights and analytics, blockchain, business agility, and custom software development. Founded in 2000 with the customer-centric motto
"Building Success Together,"
Nisum has grown to over 1,800 professionals across the United States, Chile, Colombia, India, Pakistan, and Canada. A preferred advisor to leading Fortune 500 brands, Nisum enables clients to achieve direct business growth by building the advanced technology they need to reach end customers in today's world, with immersive and seamless experiences across digital and physical channels.

What You'll Do
This is an ideal position for a skilled and proactive
Data/Platform Engineer
who is passionate about building scalable data platforms and integrating enterprise systems. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining data infrastructure, supporting high-performance data pipelines, and ensuring platform reliability and security. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver robust solutions and drive continuous improvement.

Data Platform & Infrastructure Development

• Design and implement scalable data platform solutions leveraging Snowflake and AWS.
• Develop data ingestion pipelines to process structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data sources.
• Orchestrate workloads and deployments using Kubernetes (EKS) for high scalability and reliability.

Automation & DevOps

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools such as CircleCI, Octopus Deploy, and GitHub Actions.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or similar tools.
• Ensure platform observability, monitoring, and proactive issue resolution.

Security, Governance & Optimization

• Design secure infrastructure and enforce best practices for platform security and data governance.
• Optimize data platform performance and resource utilization.
• Support metadata management and maintain documentation of architecture and processes.

What You Know

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Platform Engineering roles.
• Proven expertise with Snowflake, including infrastructure design, security model, resource management, and performance optimization.
• Strong proficiency in AWS services, especially S3, IAM, EC2, EKS, and general networking/security concepts.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling such as CircleCI, Octopus Deploy, and GitHub Actions (bonus).
• Experience with Python development in data contexts.
• Strong understanding of data ingestion patterns from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured sources.
• Familiarity with orchestrating workloads in Kubernetes/EKS.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging skills across infrastructure and data pipelines.
• Strong communication skills: capable of gathering requirements, proposing solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• Self-motivated with a proactive mindset — willing to go beyond assigned tasks to improve systems and processes.
• Exposure to Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience implementing platform observability and monitoring.
• Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, and platform security best practices.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related field.