Intermediate Data Engineer

We’re looking for an authentic, collaborative, and accountable Data Engineer to join the Arcurve team.
YOU ARE

Passionate about technology
An authentic and creative human
Driven to succeed
A believer in the importance of teamwork
Community-minded
An expert problem solver
Someone who thrives on challenge
Motivated by exceptional results
Someone who cares about your clients

THE GOAL
To deliver best-in-class technical solutions across a broad array of clients in different industries utilizing the tech stack best suited to solving the problem with a focus on delivering business value for our clients.

THE ROLE
Arcurve delivers applied machine learning for clients operating in complex technical environments. The value of that work depends on whether it runs reliably against real operational data, which is rarely clean, complete, or timely.
As a Data Engineer, you will build and operate the pipelines and platform that carry data from source to model to decision, across batch and streaming workloads. You will also take a hands-on role in productionizing machine learning models, working alongside a Data Scientist who owns the analytical design.
This position suits an engineer who thinks in terms of failure modes and who expects their systems to be inherited, debugged, and extended by other people.

THE RESPONSIBILITIES

Design, build, and maintain production data pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and data quality validation.
Develop streaming and near-real-time pipelines where operational decisions depend on low latency.
Own MLOps infrastructure, including CI/CD for models, experiment tracking, model registry, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining.
Implement validated machine learning approaches as production services that perform reliably under enterprise load.
Build data models and semantic layers that support both analyst querying and reliable reasoning by large language models.
Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure, and establish the observability, alerting, and recovery procedures that keep it dependable.
Collaborate with data scientists, client engineering teams, and business stakeholders on requirements and delivery.

THE REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Demonstrated experience building and operating production data platforms.
Expert-level SQL and strong Python.
Deep experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake. Experience with BigQuery and Microsoft Fabric is also highly valued.
Spark, including performance tuning on production workloads.
Pipeline orchestration and workflow tooling such as Airflow, Databricks Workflows, Azure Data Factory, or dbt.
MLOps tooling such as MLflow, Databricks Asset Bundles, or Azure ML, with practical experience deploying and monitoring models.
Experience delivering in a major cloud environment, with Azure preferred and AWS a strong second.
Working proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes, including containerizing and deploying services.
CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practice.
Data modelling experience across dimensional, normalized, or graph approaches, with the judgment to select appropriately.
Established software engineering habits, including version control, code review, automated testing, structured logging, and error handling.
Excellent written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Streaming platforms such as Kafka, Event Hubs, Kinesis, or Spark Structured Streaming.
Deploying machine learning models at scale, including real-time inference and GPU workloads.
Graph databases and graph data modelling.
Handling unstructured data at volume, including images, documents, and audio.
Data governance, lineage, and cataloguing.
Domain exposure to industrial, energy, or engineering-led sectors.

THE PERKS

A fun work atmosphere that values equity, diversity and inclusion.
Competitive contractor rates.
Hybrid work environment and flexible scheduling.
Contract or Employment opportunities