Senior Data Engineer for a higher education client in Denton, TX, on a contract-to-hire basis with hybrid work.

Design, build, deploy, and sustain enterprise data warehouses, operational data stores, data marts, and data lake architectures.
Develop scalable cloud and hybrid data platforms leveraging Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and related Oracle technologies.
Create both logical and physical data models to support analytics, reporting, and enterprise data needs.
Architect and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Oracle Integration Cloud, SnapLogic, SSIS, PL/SQL, and T-SQL.
Facilitate integrations across ERP, HCM, SIS, CRM, LMS, and third-party SaaS systems.
Build and support API driven, REST, SOAP, SFTP, file-based, batch, near real-time, and event-driven integrations.
Ensure data quality, reconciliation, validation, exception handling, and performance optimization.
Support analytics and reporting with Power BI, Oracle Analytics Cloud, or similar SQL-based tools.
Create curated datasets, semantic models, dashboards, KPI structures, and reporting views.
Monitor data pipelines, platform health, data processing, system performance, and integration workflows.
Contribute to cloud security, encryption, auditing, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery practices.
Produce and maintain technical documentation, data dictionaries, process flows, and operational procedures.
Collaborate with both technical and functional stakeholders across the organization.

8+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, enterprise data warehousing, ETL development, analytics engineering, or equivalent.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field.
Experience designing and supporting enterprise data warehouses, ODS, data marts, data lakes, and analytics platforms.
Experience supporting hybrid cloud and on-premises enterprise data ecosystems.
Strong SQL experience, including Oracle PL/SQL, SQL Server T-SQL, or equivalent technologies.
Experience with database performance tuning, SQL query optimization, schema design, and data modeling.
Experience building and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines.
Experience with cloud and integration platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle Integration Cloud, SnapLogic, SSIS, REST/SOAP APIs, SFTP, or file-based integrations.
Experience with analytics and reporting tools such as Power BI, Oracle Analytics Cloud, or equivalent.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.
Ability to translate technical concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex enterprise environment.
Must pass a CJIS-compliant background check upon hire.

Does your resume clearly show hands-on experience with EDW, ODS, ETL/ELT, SQL, integrations, and reporting?
Are you able to attend the onsite interviews in Denton, TX 76204?

Senior Data Engineer

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