We are looking for a Data Engineer to join a team in Santa Monica, California on a Long-term Contract assignment. This position focuses on building dependable data solutions that connect multiple sources, support reporting needs, and improve access to trusted business information. The role offers a blend of pipeline development, dashboard ownership, data quality work, and cross-functional collaboration with partner teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, validate, and release data pipelines that bring together information from varied source systems within an existing ingestion environment.
• Create and support connections to external platforms, APIs, and vendor tools so data remains current, consistent, and available for analysis.
• Oversee daily pipeline health, investigate processing issues, and partner with senior engineers to address failures and improve reliability.
• Develop and maintain roughly 10 business intelligence dashboards used by 2 to 3 stakeholder groups, keeping reporting useful and aligned with team needs.
• Improve dashboard quality by reviewing accuracy, optimizing performance, enhancing usability, and retiring reports that no longer provide value.
• Write and maintain data validation checks, including tests at the source level to strengthen data quality and reduce downstream issues.
• Support data modeling and transformation efforts using dbt to prepare clean, well-structured datasets for analytics and reporting.
• Handle ad hoc data requests submitted through an intake process, providing timely answers to business questions with clear supporting analysis.
• Produce and update documentation for pipelines, reporting assets, and operational workflows to promote maintainability and knowledge sharing.
• Take part in peer code review by submitting thoughtful feedback and incorporating suggestions to maintain strong engineering standards.