Senior AWS Lakehouse Data Platform Engineer

EPAM Systems; Chile; On-site; CLP 40,000,000 - 70,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Paid time off

Upskilling and certification

Global career opportunities

LinkedIn Learning access

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer to define, build, and operate the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), a scalable, governed data foundation for analytics. You will help shape an AWS native lakehouse, promote domain ownership, and enforce centralized governance across the federation.

You will design patterns, support migration from legacy platforms, and ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency while collaborating with global teams and standards-based architecture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or related fields.
• Hands-on experience with AWS data ecosystem services (S3, Glue, Lake Formation).
• Proficiency in AWS DataZone, IAM, and query engines like Athena/Redshift.
• Experience designing lakehouse or modern data platform architectures.
• Expertise in data ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines, and orchestration frameworks.
• Understanding of data governance, security, and access control models.
• Experience with enterprise data cataloging and metadata management.
• English proficiency at B2 level or higher.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to enterprise data platform strategy and roadmap.
• Design and evolve a modern AWS native lakehouse architecture.
• Establish scalable, reusable data platform patterns and standards.
• Support migration from legacy Microsoft based data platforms.
• Apply the federated data operating model with domain responsibilities and data product standards.
• Support delivery and ongoing operation of the data platform.
• Develop data ingestion pipelines and transformation frameworks.
• Ensure platform reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and operational controls.
• Optimize platform cost efficiency across storage, compute, and data processing workloads.
• Apply and enforce data governance standards, policies, and controls.
• Support tooling and technology decisions across the platform ecosystem, including reference architectures for batch, streaming, and real-time processing.

Skills

English proficiency

Data modeling

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/DS

Tools

S3

Glue

Lake Formation

Athena

Redshift

IAM

Data Zone

Job description

EPAM Systems seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer to define, build, and operate the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), a scalable, governed data foundation for analytics. You will help shape an AWS native lakehouse, promote domain ownership, and enforce centralized governance across the federation.

You will design patterns, support migration from legacy platforms, and ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency while collaborating with global teams and standards-based architecture.