Remote AWS Lakehouse Data Engineer | Pipelines & Governance

TRIWAVE Solutions INC; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

TRIWAVE Solutions INC. is seeking an experienced AWS Lakehouse Data Engineer to design, build, and operate a modern AWS-native data platform supporting analytics, reporting, visualization, and AI/ML workloads.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS data services (S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, Lake Formation, Redshift), Apache Iceberg, PySpark, Python, and SQL, plus strong data governance capabilities. Remote work and a competitive rate are offered.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building AWS data lake/lakehouse architectures.
• Strong Python, PySpark, and SQL skills with production ETL/ELT experience.
• Experience with Apache Iceberg, including ACID, schema evolution, snapshots, partitioning, and optimization.
• Experience with AWS services including S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, Lake Formation, IAM, KMS, and Redshift.
• Experience with data governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, and fine-grained access controls.
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD, AWS security, and distributed data-processing environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Python and PySpark.
• Build and maintain an AWS-native lakehouse on Amazon S3 using Iceberg and Parquet.
• Develop ETL/ELT workflows, incremental processing, CDC, schema validation, and reusable transformations.
• Use AWS services for data processing, querying, and governance (Glue, Athena, EMR, Lake Formation, Redshift).
• Implement metadata management, lineage, data quality, encryption, and fine-grained access controls.
• Automate AWS infrastructure using IaC and support CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Monitor and optimize platform performance, reliability, security, and cost.
• Collaborate with data, analytics, AI/ML, security, and cloud teams; maintain technical documentation.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

AWS data lake

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

AWS security

Data governance

Tools

AWS Glue

Athena

EMR

Lake Formation

Redshift

S3

IAM

KMS

Job description

TRIWAVE Solutions INC. is seeking an experienced AWS Lakehouse Data Engineer to design, build, and operate a modern AWS-native data platform supporting analytics, reporting, visualization, and AI/ML workloads.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with AWS data services (S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, Lake Formation, Redshift), Apache Iceberg, PySpark, Python, and SQL, plus strong data governance capabilities. Remote work and a competitive rate are offered.