Data Engineer

Data Engineer (W2 Only)

Location: Plano, TX (Local or Nearby Candidates Preferred)
Employment Type: W2 Only

About the Role

We are hiring a Data Engineer to join the Card Risk Platform (CCB) team. This team supports and maintains machine learning models in production, with a focus on modernizing and enhancing PySpark-based data pipelines in AWS.

You will be working on converting existing models (Python/Scala) to PySpark, improving Spark performance, and supporting large-scale data processing in AWS EMR environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance ML models in production
• Convert existing Python/Scala models to PySpark in AWS
• Optimize and enhance PySpark/Spark code
• Work with large-scale distributed data systems
• Support MapReduce/EMR-based processing workflows

Required Skills (Must Have)

• Strong Python / PySpark
• Apache Spark
• Advanced SQL
• AWS experience
• MapReduce (EMR experience preferred)
• Experience supporting production data/ML pipelines

Nice to Have

• Databricks (Lakeview, MLflow)
• Terraform
• Scala

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