AWS Lakehouse Data Engineer

Position: AWS Lakehouse Data Engineer

Clearance:
Ability to Obtain Public Trust

Location: 100% Remote (prefer DMV)

Ability to Obtain Public Trust

AWS Lakehouse Data Engineer

We are seeking an AWS Lakehouse Data Engineer to design, implement, and operate the cloud-native data platform that powers AI/ML, analytics, reporting, and data visualization. You will build a modern lakehouse on Amazon S3 using AWS-native services and open table formats, providing Databricks-like capabilities while maintaining portability, strong governance, cost efficiency, and operational control. You will also develop scalable batch and streaming ingestion, Python and PySpark ETL/ELT pipelines, metadata and governance services, and automated cloud provisioning and CI/CD across environments.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys platform building, automation, performance optimization, and enabling advanced analytics through trusted, secure, and well-governed data.

• Build and Operate Data Pipelines (Batch and Streaming)
  Design and implement batch and streaming ingestion from APIs, relational databases, file drops, event streams, and external partners.
• Implement, test, and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using Python and PySpark to produce curated, analytics-ready datasets for reporting, visualization, and machine learning.
• Implement incremental processing, change data capture (CDC), data contracts, schema validation, and reusable transformation frameworks.
• Improve pipeline reliability through automated testing, orchestration, monitoring, retry handling, and operational runbooks.
• Deliver an AWS-Native Lakehouse Data Platform
• Design and implement a Delta Lakehouse-style data platform using AWS-native services to provide Databricks-like capabilities for data engineering, analysis, and data visualization.
• Build and manage a scalable lakehouse on Amazon S3 using Apache Iceberg and open columnar formats such as Apache Parquet.
• Implement SQL-like table reliability for data stored in Amazon S3, including ACID transactions, schema evolution, partition evolution, snapshot isolation, time travel, and rollback capabilities using Apache Iceberg.
• Enable fast, interactive querying of lakehouse data using AWS-native query and compute services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, AWS Glue, and Amazon Redshift where appropriate.
• Optimize performance and cost through partitioning, compaction, file sizing, statistics, caching, lifecycle policies, and efficient separation of compute and storage.
• Establish standardized development, test, and production environments with consistent configuration and controlled promotion across stages.
• Metadata, Governance, Access Control, Lineage, and Quality
• Implement data governance and fine-grained access control using AWS-native services, including AWS Lake Formation, AWS Glue Data Catalog, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Key Management Service (KMS), and related security services.
• Implement a managed metadata repository for dataset cataloging, ownership, business definitions, tagging, classification, and discoverability.
• Enable end-to-end lineage from source through transformation and consumption to support auditability, impact analysis, and regulatory requirements.
• Apply policy-based access, least-privilege permissions, row-, column-, and cell-level controls where required, data classification, retention, encryption, and secure data handling.
• Build operational data quality checks for freshness, completeness, uniqueness, validity, consistency, and anomaly detection, and publish measurable SLAs/SLOs.
• AWS Automation, CI/CD, and Operations
• Implement automated AWS provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to create consistent environments and secure-by-default baselines.
• Build and enhance CI/CD for data pipelines and lakehouse components, including automated tests, security checks, validation gates, packaging, deployment, promotion, and rollback strategies.
• Implement observability with centralized metrics, logs, traces, alerts, dashboards, runbooks, and incident-response procedures.
• Continuously evaluate platform performance, scalability, reliability, security, and cost, and implement measurable improvements.
• Cross-Team Collaboration and Documentation
• Work closely with data, application, analytics, AI/ML, security, networking, and cloud platform teams to support mission needs and delivery timelines.
• Maintain high-quality engineering documentation, including architecture diagrams, data models, SOPs, interface specifications,…