Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS Data Lake & Pipelines

Eliassen Group; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve enterprise AWS-based data platforms supporting Swift and Fabric Access Bridge. The role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership across data lake and pipeline capabilities, IaC, and Kubernetes-based services.

You will deliver secure, scalable platform solutions, mentor peers, and communicate clearly with distributed stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software or cloud engineering with leadership.
• Hands-on coding in Python and/or Java, plus SQL.
• AWS platform engineering with Lambda, EKS, S3, Glue, IAM.
• Data lake and data pipeline development experience.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, Git workflows.
• Containers and Kubernetes in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and support cloud-native software and platform services on AWS.
• Develop APIs, automation services, and self-service tooling for platform consumers.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and improve observability.
• Translate business needs into scalable, enterprise-ready solutions and reusable patterns.
• Recommend architectures that scale across multiple consuming teams.
• Define technical direction and roadmap for platform capabilities including Swift and FAB.
• Evaluate options for scalability, security, supportability, and enterprise impact.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, design reviews, and pairing.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Cybersecurity, and product teams to balance speed with platform health.
• Engage reliably during core hours and contribute actively in virtual collaboration.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Data lake

Data pipelines

Tools

Docker

EKS

S3

Glue

Lambda

Kafka

Redshift

CloudWatch

Job description

Eliassen Group in Charlotte, NC is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and evolve enterprise AWS-based data platforms supporting Swift and Fabric Access Bridge. The role blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership across data lake and pipeline capabilities, IaC, and Kubernetes-based services.

You will deliver secure, scalable platform solutions, mentor peers, and communicate clearly with distributed stakeholders.