ACARA Jobs
Data Engineer 2
Apply- ID: 559202
- Posted: 4/16/2026
- Location: San Antonio, TX
- Category: Pro - Engineering
- Job Type: Temporary
- Duration: 6 - 9 Months
Description
Job Title: Data Engineer 2
Location: San Antonio, TX.
Employment: Contract (9 months)
Industry: Energy and gas
Compensation: $ 44.67 /hr.
Schedule: 40 hours/week - 1st shift.
About the Opportunity:
- Develop and automate computing processes to detect, predict, and respond to business opportunities.
- Work with diverse datasets across domains such as weather, grid infrastructure, power generation, gas delivery, market operations, safety, and customer engagement.
- Drive enterprise-wide data integration using best practices.
Why You'll Love Working Here:
- Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
- Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
- People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
- Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates
Why This Opportunity is Exciting:
- This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.
About Acara Solutions
- Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
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What You'll Do:
- Provide the development and automation of computing processes to detect, predict and respond to opportunities in business operations.
- Working with a variety of disparate datasets that encompass many disciplines and business units including weather, transmission and distribution grid infrastructure, power generation, gas delivery, commercial market operations, safety and security and customer engagement.
- Strive to transform and implement true business integration, leveraging top-notch data integration best practices.
- Merging and securing data in a way that reduces the cost to maintain and increases the utilization of enterprise-wide data as an asset.
- Developing business intelligence.
- Design, Develop, and unit test new or existing ETL/Data Integration solutions to meet business requirements.
- Daily production support for Enterprise Data Warehouse including jobs in Informatica/Mulesoft and Oracle PL/SQL; and be flexible to manage high severity incidents/problem resolution.
- Participate in troubleshooting and resolving data integration issues such as data quality.
- Deliver increased productivity and effectiveness through rapid delivery of high-quality applications.
- Provide work estimates and communicate status of assignments.
- Assist in QA efforts on tasks by providing input for test cases and supporting test case execution.
- Analyze transaction errors, troubleshoot issues in the software, develop bug-fixes, involved in performance tuning efforts.
- Develop Informatica/Mulesoft Mappings and complex Oracle PL/SQL programs for the Data Warehouse.
- Responsible for selecting and using DevOps tools for continuous integration, builds, and monitoring of solutions.
- May provide input to area budget.
- Makes some independent decisions and recommendations which affect the section, department or division.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
What You'll Bring:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- 3+ years of experience in a data integration role.
- 3+ years of experience in Apache Spark, Nifi or Kafka.
- 3+ years of experience in Python.
- 3+ years of experience in integrating enterprise software using ETL modules.
- 3+ years of experience in administration of Hadoop platforms and solutions
- 3+ years of experience in advanced Python skills
- 3+ years of experience in Alteryx
- 3+ years of experience in API
- 3+ years of experience in SEQUEL
What Sets You Apart:
- Knowledge of data architecture, structures and principles with the ability to critique data and system designs.
- Ability to design, create or modify data processes that meet key timelines while conforming to predefined specifications utilizing the Informatica or Mulesoft platform.
- Understanding of big data technologies and platforms (Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce, Hive, HBase, MongoDB).
- Ability to integrate data from Web services in XML, JSON, flat file format, SOAP.
- Knowledge of core concepts of RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML 1.0) and designing with MuleSoft solutions.
- Relevant Certifications
- Experience in API Management
- Proficiency with the following databases/technologies: Mulesoft Anypoint Studio, Informatica PowerCenter, Oracle RDMS, PL/SQL, MySQL
- Knowledge of Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Familiarity with Cloud base architecture
- Experince with data analysis & model prototyping using Spark/Python/SQL and common data science tools & libraries (e.g. NumPy, Pandas, scikit-learn, TensorFlow)
- Experience in a technology organization
- Demonstrating Initiative
- Communicating Effectively
- Using Computers and Technology
- Driving for Results
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check.
After you apply, you may receive a call or message from our AI Talent Scout about this role or other opportunities that match your skills and preferences. AI agent role is to help speed up your hiring process by answering questions, confirming basic information, and identifying whether there's a mutual fit.
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Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.