Senior Data Platform Engineer - Cloud Data Governance

Agileengine; Sucre; Hybrid; COP 384,813,000 - 577,219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive compensation (USD)

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer in Colombia to build secure, scalable data platform capabilities and automate governance controls. You will develop automated controls for metadata, lineage, data quality, and access, and create secure APIs and enterprise-grade tools for AI-enabled apps.

You will collaborate with domain experts and engineers, mentor peers, and help shape the technical direction across teams while ensuring robust security and compliance practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Data Eng/Software Eng or related STEM fields.
• 5+ years software/data engineering experience or equivalent.
• 5+ years with Python, SQL, distributed processing, data modeling, modern data engineering frameworks.
• Experience with cloud data platforms, data catalogs, metadata, lineage, data quality, access controls.
• Databricks, Unity Catalog, Data Lake, Apache Spark or comparable tech.
• CI/CD, automated testing, environment separation, production deployment.
• Experience building secure APIs, MCP servers, or tools for enterprise/AI-enabled apps.
• Enterprise identity, RBAC, service accounts, secrets, least-privilege security.

Responsibilities

• Architect secure, scalable data platform and governance automation capabilities.
• Build automated controls for metadata, ownership, lineage, data quality, access, and policy enforcement.
• Develop secure APIs, MCP tools, and integrations for enterprise/AI-enabled applications.
• Design reusable, configuration-driven patterns for governed data/platform services.
• Implement identity, authz, least-privilege access, auditability, and credential management.
• Build automated validation, testing, deployment, and monitoring across environments.
• Partner with domain experts, PMs, governance teams, and engineers on technical controls.
• Establish observability for platform health, data quality, policy results, and failures.
• Own production-quality code, tests, documentation, and operational guidance.
• Mentor other engineers; guide technical direction across teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

Distributed processing

Data modeling

Data governance

CI/CD

Secure APIs

RBAC/least-privilege

Education

BSc in CS/Data Eng/Software Eng or STEM (or related)

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Data Lake

Apache Spark

Job description

AgileEngine is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer in Colombia to build secure, scalable data platform capabilities and automate governance controls. You will develop automated controls for metadata, lineage, data quality, and access, and create secure APIs and enterprise-grade tools for AI-enabled apps.

You will collaborate with domain experts and engineers, mentor peers, and help shape the technical direction across teams while ensuring robust security and compliance practices.