Lead AWS Lakehouse Platform Engineer | Data Governance

EPAM Systems; Colombia; On-site; COP 120,000,000 - 240,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Employee financial programs

Paid time off and sick leave

Upskilling, reskilling and certificate

LinkedIn Learning access

Global career opportunities

Volunteer and community involvement

EPAM Employee Groups

Award-winning culture

Job summary

EPAM Systems seeks a Lead Data Platform Engineer to build and run an enterprise AWS-native lakehouse platform powering governed analytics through a centralized Enterprise Data Platform. In this role, you will shape platform patterns, enable domain-owned data products with centralized governance, and guide migration from Microsoft-based platforms while improving reliability, observability, and cost.

You will define scalable patterns, build ingestion pipelines, and collaborate with multi-national

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data engineering or related fields.
• Hands-on with AWS data ecosystem: S3, Glue, Lake Formation.
• Experience designing lakehouse architectures.
• ETL/ELT pipelines and orchestration experience.
• Data governance, security, and access controls.
• Proficient in English (B2 or higher).

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the enterprise data platform strategy and roadmap.
• Architect and evolve a modern AWS native lakehouse architecture.
• Define scalable, reusable data platform patterns and standards.
• Assist migration from legacy Microsoft based data platforms.
• Apply and improve the federated data operating model, including domain responsibilities and data product standards.
• Enable delivery and ongoing operation of the data platform.
• Build 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.
• Guide tooling and technology decisions across the platform ecosystem, including reference architectures for batch, streaming, and real-time processing

Skills

Data engineering

Data platforms

AWS data services

Lakehouse architectures

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data governance

Security & access control

Metadata management

English proficiency

Tools

AWS S3

AWS Glue

Lake Formation

Athena

Redshift

IAM

Power BI

Job description

EPAM Systems seeks a Lead Data Platform Engineer to build and run an enterprise AWS-native lakehouse platform powering governed analytics through a centralized Enterprise Data Platform. In this role, you will shape platform patterns, enable domain-owned data products with centralized governance, and guide migration from Microsoft-based platforms while improving reliability, observability, and cost.

You will define scalable patterns, build ingestion pipelines, and collaborate with multi-national