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Senior Data Engineer.

Data Engineering & Architecture Contract

Senior Data Engineer: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role:Senior data engineer and data architect needed to modernize operational data platforms for a transportation and logistics organisation.
  • The Person:The person will architect ingestion and transformation pipelines, build CDC and streaming solutions, implement domain models and governance frameworks, establish data quality standards, define data requirements, lead CI/CD implementation, and mentor junior engineers.
  • Requirements:The ideal candidate has 7+ years of professional experience in data architecture and design, 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience, and expertise in CDC, streaming technologies, Kafka or AWS MSK, Azure and/or AWS, data quality frameworks, governance practices, CI/CD pipelines, AWS Flink, DocumentDB, GraphQL, data mesh, domain-driven design, SQL, and Spark.

About the role

About This Opportunity

CTI Staffing is partnering with a leading transportation and logistics organization to find a Senior Data Engineer / Data Architect for their operational data platform team, based in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

This team is modernizing how operational data moves across the business, replacing legacy batch processes with real-time streaming pipelines that keep critical systems in sync. You'll design the domain models and governance frameworks that make this modernization possible, while also building the pipelines yourself. This is a hands-on architecture role, not a whiteboard-only position.

What You'll Do

  • Architect scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines for large-scale operational systems
  • Build CDC and streaming solutions using Kafka or AWS MSK for real-time data synchronization
  • Implement canonical domain models and governance frameworks across cloud platforms
  • Establish data quality standards and monitoring practices
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to define data requirements and integration strategy
  • Lead CI/CD implementation for data infrastructure and pipeline deployments
  • Mentor junior engineers on data architecture and engineering best practices

Requirements

What You Bring

Must-Have:

  • 7+ years of professional experience in data architecture and design
  • 5+ years of hands-on data engineering experience
  • Demonstrated expertise in CDC (Change Data Capture) and streaming technologies
  • Proficiency with Kafka or AWS MSK
  • Strong experience with cloud platforms — Azure and/or AWS
  • Proven expertise in data quality frameworks and governance practices
  • Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure
  • Strong cross-team collaboration and communication skills

Nice-to-Have:

  • Experience with AWS Flink for stream processing
  • Knowledge of DocumentDB or other NoSQL document databases
  • Familiarity with GraphQL for data API design
  • Cross-cloud integration experience
  • Background in data mesh or domain-driven design patterns

Technical Environment:

  • Cloud: Azure, AWS
  • Streaming: Kafka, AWS MSK, AWS Flink (preferred)
  • Data modeling and governance tooling
  • CI/CD pipelines for data infrastructure
  • SQL and distributed computing frameworks (Spark or similar)

What Success Looks Like:

  • Real-time CDC pipelines running in production within the first 3-6 months
  • Canonical domain models established with clear governance ownership
  • Junior engineers actively mentored on architecture and engineering standards

Published August 5, 2026
Location Dallas, TX
Job Type Contract