Senior Data Engineer

17 ore fa

Lazio, Italia Tempo pieno

SENIOR DATA ENGINEER (AWS/Python/AI Data Pipelines) - UN OPPORTUNITY - REMOTE *%, 40 days initial)
For our UN client, we are looking for an experienced:
Senior Data Engineer - AWS/AI-enabled Data Solutions
100% remote, supporting a UN agency in Rome
Start: To be agreed? Two projects, 40 working days each
50% per project; one consultant may cover both: 40 working days at 100%, not just 50%
At least 80% overlap with 08:
***:00 CEST
TASKS
Build governed ingestion, transformation and delivery pipelines for AI-assisted reporting.
Integrate APIs and external sources with authentication, retries and schema validation.
Implement data contracts, harmonization, lineage and automated quality checks.
Prepare documents for knowledge-base ingestion: parsing, chunking and metadata enrichment.
Build secure staging, reference-data caches and deterministic validation for market datasets.
Design DynamoDB models and S3 storage for workflow state, evidence and audit records.
Implement controlled API writeback, ensuring only human-approved datasets are persisted.
Provide monitoring, automated tests, documentation and runbooks.
Support LLM configuration, prompt engineering and AI-module development.
SKILLS
Minimum 4 years building batch and Real Time data pipelines.
Minimum 2 years with REST/JSON, data contracts, schema validation, data quality, event-driven processing, S3 and DynamoDB or PostgreSQL.
Minimum 2 years implementing AWS data platforms and containerized workloads: S3, RDS, Lambda, Glue and DMS.
Minimum 2 years supporting data science/ML workflows from a data engineering perspective.
Strong SQL and Spark programming using Python, Scala and/or Java.
Modern databases, warehouses, Data Lakes/Lakehouses and data modelling.
Azure DevOps CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and secure release engineering.
Enterprise security, privacy, data governance and Responsible AI.
Relevant Bachelor's/Master's degree and strong English.
Experience supporting LLM/RAG workflows; Amazon Bedrock knowledge is an advantage.
International competition - please provide a competitive daily rate in EUR.
Direct applicants only - no agencies or intermediaries, please.
TO DO - to apply, please send:
A
3-4 sentence introduction
explaining how your experience matches this specific role.
Your CV in
Word/DOC format
, clearly highlighting your relevant hands-on experience.
Your
all-inclusive daily rate in EUR
for fully remote work.Your
availability/notice period and earliest possible start date
.
Your capacity for one or both projects, %,
Country of residence and confirmation of working-hours overlap with Rome time.
Deadline: ASAP - early applications encouraged.