Senior Data Platform Engineer: Secure Data & AI Governance (Remote)

AgileEngine, LLC.; Perímetro Urbano Manizales; Hybrid; COP 291,290,000 - 420,753,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional growth

Competitive USD-based compensation

Exciting projects

Flextime

Job summary

AgileEngine, LLC. in Manizales, Colombia is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build secure, scalable data platform capabilities and automate data governance controls.

You will architect and implement data pipelines, metadata management, and policy enforcement to support AI-enabled applications. The role involves collaborating with governance, data science, and software teams, delivering reusable patterns, ensuring least-privilege access, observability, and production-grade quality,

Qualifications

• 5+ years software or data engineering experience.
• 5+ years with Python, SQL, distributed processing, data modeling, and modern data engineering frameworks.
• Experience with cloud data platforms, data catalogs, metadata, lineage, data quality, and access controls.
• Experience with Databricks, Unity Catalog, Data Lake, Apache Spark or equivalents.
• Experience building secure APIs, MCP servers, or enterprise/AI apps tools.
• 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 engineering

CI/CD

APIs

RBAC

Least-privilege

Cloud platforms

Data catalogs

Metadata/ lineage

Databricks

Apache Spark

MCP servers

Education

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

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Data Lake

CI/CD tooling

Job description

AgileEngine, LLC. in Manizales, Colombia is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to build secure, scalable data platform capabilities and automate data governance controls.

You will architect and implement data pipelines, metadata management, and policy enforcement to support AI-enabled applications. The role involves collaborating with governance, data science, and software teams, delivering reusable patterns, ensuring least-privilege access, observability, and production-grade quality,