Senior Data Platform Engineer - Remote & Governance Automation

AgileEngine, LLC.; Medellín; Hybrid; COP 388,387,000 - 582,581,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive compensation

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine, LLC. is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build secure, scalable data platform capabilities and automate governance controls. You will design reusable, configuration-driven patterns and implement identity, least-privilege access, and policy enforcement across environments.

You will lead development of secure APIs and MCP tools for enterprise/AI-enabled apps, mentoring engineers and ensuring production-quality code, tests, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in CS/Data Engineering/Software Engineering/related STEM.
• 5+ years software/data engineering experience.
• 5+ years with Python, SQL, distributed processing, data modeling, modern data engineering frameworks.
• Strong experience with cloud data platforms, data catalogs, metadata, lineage, data quality, access controls.
• Databricks, Unity Catalog, Data Lake, Apache Spark, or comparable.
• 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

modern data engineering

cloud data platforms

data catalogs

metadata

lineage

data quality

access controls

CI/CD

automated testing

production deployment

secure APIs

RBAC

least-privilege security

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Apache Spark

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Data Engineering/Software Engineering/related STEM

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Data Lake

Apache Spark

CI/CD tooling

Job description

AgileEngine, LLC. is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build secure, scalable data platform capabilities and automate governance controls. You will design reusable, configuration-driven patterns and implement identity, least-privilege access, and policy enforcement across environments.

You will lead development of secure APIs and MCP tools for enterprise/AI-enabled apps, mentoring engineers and ensuring production-quality code, tests, and documentation.