Senior AWS Data Platform Lead - Hybrid

TEKsystems; United States; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Principal AWS Data Engineer to design, build, and lead large-scale data platforms on AWS for Retirement Partners. The role blends hands-on work with high-level leadership, guiding a data team in a cloud-native lakehouse environment in Fort Mill, SC.

You will work with Glue, Iceberg, S3, and Snowflake to drive data governance, security, and advanced ETL/ELT architectures, while partnering with business and tech teams in a hybrid contract role.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of Data Engineering experience.
• 5+ years designing and implementing AWS-based data solutions.
• Deep expertise with AWS Glue and cloud-native ETL frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Iceberg in production environments.
• Strong Snowflake architecture and engineering experience.
• Experience building enterprise-scale data lake and lakehouse platforms.
• Advanced SQL and data modeling expertise.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or Scala.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, and security controls.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions on AWS.
• Lead data engineering team from a strategic perspective while contributing hands-on.
• Build and maintain data pipelines using Glue, S3, and Iceberg.

Skills

AWS

ETL

Snowflake

Apache Iceberg

S3

Python

Scala

Terraform

CDK

CloudFormation

CI/CD

Data governance

Data quality

Security controls

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Kinesis

Kafka

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Principal AWS Data Engineer to design, build, and lead large-scale data platforms on AWS for Retirement Partners. The role blends hands-on work with high-level leadership, guiding a data team in a cloud-native lakehouse environment in Fort Mill, SC.

You will work with Glue, Iceberg, S3, and Snowflake to drive data governance, security, and advanced ETL/ELT architectures, while partnering with business and tech teams in a hybrid contract role.