Data Platform Engineer (Contract)

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You’ll own ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and the semantic layer, and you’ll support integrations, event pipelines, and platform infrastructure, applying a DevOps reputed company to environments, deployments, and production reliability. reputed company a dashboard number looks off, you’ll reputed company it through Lightdash/dbt/pipelines, reputed company the reputed company cause, and fix it.  We’re a lean, builder team: reputed company-reputed company-leaning, fast-moving, and opinionated. 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