Lead Data Platform Engineer — AI-Powered, Snowflake & AWS (Hybrid)

EPAM Systems; Lavamünd; Hybrid; EUR 159,000 - 223,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc in the border Zurich area, Switzerland, is seeking a Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer (Data platform) to join our team in a hybrid role. You will work on a large-scale data platform project, collaborating with Data Architects, BI Engineers and Analysts to optimize and extend data pipelines.

The role focuses on modern data stack technologies (Snowflake, ClickHouse, dbt, Fivetran, AWS data services) and integrating AI tooling to deliver measurable value, prototype capabilities, and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional experience with 2+ years in platform engineering or forward-deployed solution engineering roles.
• Proven expertise in Snowflake and ClickHouse.
• Strong proficiency in dbt and Fivetran.
• Hands-on experience leveraging AI-assisted or agentic development tools.
• Ability to analyze platform performance and optimize architectures for scalability and speed.
• Experience with AWS Data Stack.
• Familiarity with Anthropic Claude or AWS Bedrock.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL and prompt engineering concepts.

Responsibilities

• Continuously assess platform performance and identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies for improvement.
• Embed AI and agentic tooling in platform environments to enhance speed, reliability and cost-effectiveness.
• Prototype new platform capabilities across ingestion, transformation and query workflows.
• Validate prototypes directly with end users prior to transferring into the build process.
• Own technical feasibility assessments for emerging AI-driven and agentic optimization opportunities.
• Harden validated prototypes for delivery and integration into standard pipelines with Data Platform Engineers.
• Contribute reusable optimization patterns to the AI Solution Engineering practice.

Skills

Platform engineering

Data platforms

AI integration

Tools

Snowflake

ClickHouse

dbt

Fivetran

AWS

Anthropic Claude

AWS Bedrock

LangChain

Job description

EPAM Systems Inc in the border Zurich area, Switzerland, is seeking a Lead Forward-Deployed Engineer (Data platform) to join our team in a hybrid role. You will work on a large-scale data platform project, collaborating with Data Architects, BI Engineers and Analysts to optimize and extend data pipelines.

The role focuses on modern data stack technologies (Snowflake, ClickHouse, dbt, Fivetran, AWS data services) and integrating AI tooling to deliver measurable value, prototype capabilities, and