Data Integration Engineer
Saxon Global
11 days ago
Remote
$110 - $110 USD hourly
Required Skills and Experience
- 4+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, or a closely related discipline.
- At least 1 year of experience working with a graph database, ontology platform, or semantic-layer technology.
- Strong Python and SQL skills.
- Experience with Spark or PySpark and a data orchestration or transformation tool such as Airflow, dbt, or Foundry Pipeline Builder.
- Hands-on experience with at least one of the following: Palantir Foundry, Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, or an RDF triple store, including the relevant query language or tooling.
- Experience integrating SaaS and operational systems through REST APIs, webhooks, SFTP, and flat-file exports.
- Understanding of data modeling, data transformation, entity resolution, and data-quality practices.
- Experience building, monitoring, and troubleshooting production data pipelines.
- Ability to work with technical and business stakeholders to clarify requirements and resolve data issues.
- Working knowledge of secure data-handling practices, including access controls, encryption, audit logging, and data minimization.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with cloud data platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code and automated deployment practices.
- Experience using TypeScript or React to build internal tools or applications that consume ontology data.
- Experience supporting AI applications or agents through reliable data services, graph queries, or semantic data access.
Competencies
- Strong data engineering and integration skills, with attention to reliability and maintainability.
- Analytical problem-solving and a methodical approach to diagnosing data issues.
- Attention to detail when mapping entities, relationships, and business rules.
- Ability to build robust pipelines and services that support production applications.
- Commitment to data quality, security, documentation, and operational monitoring.
- Effective communication and collaboration with architecture, engineering, product, and business teams.
- Ability to manage priorities and resolve issues in a fast-moving platform environment.
Culture Fit
You will thrive here if:
- Take ownership of data quality and investigate issues before they affect downstream users.
- Are comfortable working across multiple source systems and evolving technical requirements.
- Value clear documentation, testing, monitoring, and secure engineering practices.
- Collaborate closely with architects and engineers to turn semantic models into working data services.
- Look for practical ways to improve automation, reliability, and platform performance.
You may not thrive here if:
- Prefer one-off data tasks over maintaining production pipelines and integrations.
- Have limited experience troubleshooting data quality or integration issues.
- Treat monitoring, testing, documentation, or security as secondary concerns.
- Prefer working in isolation rather than collaborating with architecture and application teams.
Experience:
- Python: 5 years (Required)
- SQL: 5 years (Required)
- Data Pipelines & Orchestration: 5 years (Required)
- API & Systems Integration: 5 years (Required)
- Data Engineering or Data Integration: 5 years (Required)