Senior / Lead AWS Data Engineer (Remote)

Role Description

This role leads the design and scaling of a modern data platform on AWS. You will own the end-to-end data architecture across services like S3, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Lake Formation, SNS / SQS, Airflow, and Postgres, enabling analytics and AI / ML teams with reliable, well-modelled data.

Please note that the working hours for this job would be  5PM to 2AM IST .

• Own the architecture and roadmap of an AWS-based data platform.
• Design and build ETL / ELT pipelines using AWS Glue and related services.
• Manage and optimize a data lake on S3 and data warehouses in Redshift.
• Apply AWS Lake Formation for data security, governance, and fine-grained access control.
• Use Athena for ad-hoc and exploratory querying over S3-based data.
• Implement and maintain orchestrated data workflows using Apache Airflow.
• Design and support event-driven data flows using AWS SNS and SQS.
• Collaborate with analytics and ML teams to deliver clean, reliable, and well-modelled datasets.
• Mentor other data engineers and establish best practices, standards, and code review processes.

Qualifications

Nice to have :