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They pride themselves on their deep industry and technology expertise, ensuring that they drive and sustain the adoption of new capabilities. Infinitive is committed to aligning their team with their clients' culture, ensuring a successful partnership by bringing the right mix of talent and skills for high return on investment.\nInfinitive has earned recognition as one of the \"Best Small Firms to Work For\" by Consulting Magazine, receiving this accolade nine times, most recently in 2026. They have also been honored as a “Top Workplace” by the Washington Post, “Best Places to Work” by the Washington Business Journal, and “Best Places to Work” by Virginia Business.\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking an experienced Data Engineer to help design, build, and scale our next-generation event-driven data platforms. In this role, you will be instrumental in bridging high-throughput distributed streaming with complex, fault-tolerant workflow orchestration and strict data governance.\nYou will work extensively with Apache Kafka for real-time event streaming and Temporal for durable workflow orchestration, building resilient, distributed, stateful workflows and data pipelines. A key focus will be designing data schemas and implementing automated validation to enforce reliable data contracts across distributed systems. You will also develop batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, Apache Spark, and modern cloud data warehouses and Lakehouse platforms.\nYou will work extensively with Apache Kafka for real-time event streaming and Temporal for durable workflow orchestration, building resilient, distributed, stateful workflows and data pipelines. A key focus will be designing data schemas and implementing automated validation to enforce reliable data contracts across distributed systems. You will also develop batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, Apache Spark, and modern cloud data warehouses and Lakehouse platforms.\nKey Responsibilities\nStream Processing & Messaging: Architect, deploy, and maintain high-volume distributed data streams using Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry).\n\nData Schema Design & Validation: Establish and enforce schema design standards, versioning strategies, and automated schema validation (e.g., Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema) to maintain strict data contracts across microservices, streaming consumers, and Lakehouse storage.\n\nResilient Workflow Orchestration: Design and implement durable execution workflows using Temporal to coordinate long-running distributed pipelines, compensate transactions (Saga pattern), and manage cross-system ETL tasks.\n\nPipeline Development: Build end-to-end batch and near-real-time pipelines using Python, SQL, and Apache Spark / PySpark.\n\nData Modeling & Warehousing: Design and optimize analytical data models (dimensional/star schema) in modern cloud data warehouses / Lakehouse (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift).\n\nReliability & Data Quality: Implement automated testing, continuous schema validation, data drift detection, and observability across streaming and batch workflows.\n\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with software engineers, machine learning engineers, and analysts to define standard schema definitions, data contracts, and production-grade CI/CD release patterns.\nRequired Experience\n4+ years of professional experience in data engineering, backend distributed systems, or software engineering.\n\nHands-on experience with Temporal (or Cadence): Proven understanding of durable workflows, activities, retries, signals, queries, and long-running distributed task orchestration.\n\nDeep expertise with Apache Kafka: Practical experience with message partitioning, consumer groups, offset management, and topic design.\n\nStrong background in Data Schema Design & Validation:\nDemonstrated proficiency with schema definition frameworks (Apache Avro, Protocol Buffers/gRPC, or JSON Schema).\n\nPractical experience managing schema evolution, compatibility modes (backward/forward/full), and schema registries (e.g., Confluent Schema Registry, AWS Glue Schema Registry).\n\nExperience enforcing data validation rules, contract testing, and data quality checks (e.g., Great Expectations, Pandera, Pydantic, dbt tests).\n\nStrong programming proficiency in Python (Go or Java is a plus) with clean code, design patterns, and unit/integration testing standards.\n\nDistributed computing experience: Hands-on development with Apache Spark (PySpark/Spark SQL) processing large-scale datasets.\n\nAdvanced SQL & Data Modeling: Strong experience with relational databases, dimensional data modeling, and query performance tuning.\n\nInfinitive is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $90,000 - $154,00.00. Infinitive is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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