Senior Data Engineer/architect, Wwps Proserve Data and Machine Learning

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Herndon, VA · Data Science

This role is for a Senior Data Engineer/Architect focused on designing and building data lakes, data warehouses, and scalable data platforms in the cloud for public sector customers. The role involves translating business outcomes into data architecture and engineering solutions, optimizing data platforms, and acting as a trusted advisor on data technologies. While it supports ML solutions, the core focus is on data infrastructure and engineering, not direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Helping clarify customer business outcomes during project discovery and translating them into data architecture and engineering solutions
  2. Designing and building data analytics applications that are secure, scalable, reliable, performant, and cost-effective
  3. Collaborating with stakeholders to gather requirements, assess current infrastructure, and propose effective data migration and modernization strategies
  4. Identifying, mitigating, and communicating risks related to solution and service constraints by making informed technical trade-offs
  5. Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on industry trends, emerging data technologies, and innovative solutions

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
  • 5+ years of database (eg. SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Kinesis) experience
  • Experience with SQL, Python, schema definition, and software engineering best practices including secure, testable, and maintainable code
  • Understanding of distributed systems, data integration techniques (ETL vs. federation), database optimization (partitioning, indexing), and relational database performance tuning
  • Current, active US Government Security Clearance of Top Secret or above

Nice to have

  • Experience building data platforms with AWS services such as Glue, Lake Formation, Athena, Kinesis, and Lambda
  • Experience with CI/CD automation (CDK or Terraform), physical data modeling (Dimensional, Data Vault), and data pipeline optimization
  • Experience leading end-to-end data engineering projects including migrating on-premises data applications to cloud-native architectures
  • Experience interfacing with customers at different organizational levels to translate requirements into scalable data architectures
  • Knowledge of security and compliance standards (e.g., FedRAMP, NIST, HIPAA)

What the JD emphasized

  • US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance
  • Top Secret or above