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Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack

Riverwoods, IL, US💼 Full-time💰 $179,400–$179,400🗓 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the migration of a massive, high-velocity data ecosystem from a Cloudera-based stack to a modern AWS-native serverless/managed architecture.

Role type

Lead Software Engineer (Data Infrastructure)

Builds

AWS-native data pipelines and serverless data architectures

Domain

Financial Services / Big Data Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

HBase, Apache Kafka, AWS MSK, AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, NiFi, data governance, security protocols, cloud-native architecture

Preferred skills

Hadoop ecosystem, AWS DocumentDB, DynamoDB, interactive AI tooling, AWS Certified Data Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified CloudOps

Technologies

Cloudera, HBase, Kafka, NiFi, AWS EC2, AWS MSK, AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, DocumentDB, DynamoDB

Responsibilities

Maintain and optimize the current Cloudera/HBase/Kafka production environment; Design and execute the phased migration of billions of records to AWS Stack; Work with application developers to refactor data consumers; Implement and maintain strict data governance and security protocols; Transition legacy NiFi and Kafka workflows into streamlined, cloud-native pipelines

Seniority

Lead, hands-on IC with architectural responsibilities

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