Job Description

Senior Data Engineer Contract:

New York City, New York, US Salary Range:

60.00 - 120.00 |

Per Hour Job Code:

372028

End Date:

2026-10-31

Days Left:

29 days, 7 hours left

Position Title:

Senior Data Engineer (Multiple positions)

Location :

Atlanta,GA / Boston,MA/Chicago,IL/New Jersey/New York City/Raleigh,NC/San Francisco,CA/Washington DC

Contract Length:

12-18 Months (Strong Likelihood of Extension)

Start Date:

ASAP About the Role For Role 1: Multiple positions A hands-on engineering role responsible for building the data foundations that support client's LLM, retrieval, and agentic AI solutions. This is the execution-focused version of the Senior Data Engineer role without workstream leadership responsibilities. For Role 2: Multiple positions Own the data engineering workstream supporting McKinsey's GenAI and agentic AI client solutions across industries including government, defense, aerospace, utilities, and oil & gas

Design and build scalable data architectures and pipelines supporting Machine Learning, GenAI, and agentic AI solutions.

Deliver end-to-end RAG implementations, including:

Embeddings

Vector databases

Context construction

Output processing

Build MLOps and LLMOps platforms:

CI/CD for data and models

Model observability

Automated retraining

Agent evaluation frameworks

Implement data security and governance controls:

PII/PHI protection

Authentication

RBAC

Lead feature engineering initiatives.

Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance.

Required Qualifications

6+ years of data engineering experience with workstream ownership.

Expert-level Python and SQL skills.

Experience with Java or Scala as needed by client environments.

Hands-on experience with Databricks or Snowflake (program requirement).

Strong expertise in:

Apache Spark

Airflow, Dagster, or Kedro

Lang Chain

Production GenAI or agentic AI experience:

RAG

Embeddings

Vector search

Terraform experience.

Hands-on experience with Multi-Cloud

Strong API development experience.

Preferred Qualifications

LLMOps and agent evaluation tools:

LangSmith

Opik

Langfuse

AI coding assistants:

Cursor

Claude Code

Codex

Client-facing consulting experience.

Experience working with senior business stakeholders.

About Us Collabera is a leading Digital Solutions company providing software engineering solutions to the world's most tech-forward organizations. With more than 25 years of experience, we have hired over 17000 employees across 60+ offices globally and currently place 10000+ professionals annually to support critical IT engagements at more than 500 client sites, 80% being the Fortune 500

Job Requirement

Data Engineering

Terraform

python

langchain

agentic ai

llm

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Phone

Ashutosh Joshi

ashutosh.joshi@collabera.com