[Remote] Lead Data Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EPAM Systems is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to define, build, and operate a governed, scalable enterprise data platform. The role will lead strategy, architecture, delivery, governance, migration, and ongoing operations for an AWS-native lakehouse while enabling secure self-service access to trusted data and mentoring a team.
Responsibilities
- Define the enterprise data platform vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap
- Design and evolve an AWS-native lakehouse architecture for secure, high-performance access to trusted data
- Establish reusable platform standards, reference architectures, and engineering quality frameworks
- Drive migration from legacy Microsoft-based data platforms to the target lakehouse and governance model
- Own delivery and ongoing operations of ingestion pipelines, transformation frameworks, and orchestration patterns
- Implement governance controls, data catalog integration, and self-service discovery using Amazon DataZone
- Ensure reliability, observability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency across platform workloads
- Enable fine-grained access control and secure consumption patterns across domains
- Lead tooling decisions and integration patterns for analytics and BI consumption, including SQL-based access
- Mentor and grow a team, setting clear expectations and fostering continuous improvement
- Align with business domains to onboard data products and scale adoption of self-service data access
- Act as the escalation point for platform decisions, risks, and trade-offs across stakeholders
Skills
- 5+ years of data engineering or data platform experience
- 1+ years of people leadership experience in data engineering or platform teams
- Strong platform strategy skills to define roadmaps, standards, and investment direction
- Proven project delivery ownership for end-to-end platform build and operations
- Advanced AWS data ecosystem experience with AWS Database Migration Service, AWS Glue, and Amazon DataZone
- Expert data governance and security knowledge including data catalog integration, access controls, and policy enforcement
- Strong lakehouse architecture experience designing scalable, governed data lakehouse foundations
- Strong SQL for Data Analytics skills across ingestion, transformation, and consumption use cases
- Excellent stakeholder management skills to align cross-functional domain, security, and analytics partners
- Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)
- Agentic Delivery Methodology experience for scalable platform execution
- Analytics & Data Assessment experience to baseline data maturity and prioritize improvements
- Apache Spark experience for large-scale batch and streaming workloads
- Microsoft Power BI integration experience for governed self-service analytics
- Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services experience supporting legacy pipeline migration
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Improved medical coverage: EPAMers are eligible to participate in a supplementary health insurance program, with the Company funding 100% of the value of the monthly premium for participation
- Lunch Allowance: a daily allowance of CLP $ 7,000 per working day
- Allowance for internet and electricity: CLP $15,000 per month to cover internet and electricity expenses
- National Holiday Bonus: CLP $86,646 in September
- Christmas Bonus: an End of Year bonus of CLP $170,539 paid during December
- Unlimited access to learning platforms, internal courses, and professional-development resources
- Additional income through referring talent, being a technical interviewer, and other opportunities
- Relocation assistance for employees and their families when relocating to another country for a suitable project
- Health coverage for the employee and up to four family members through a choice of health plans
- Up to $200.000 COP for visual health expenses
- Full-coverage life insurance plan through MetLife
- 100% medical leave coverage for up to 90 days
- Professional growth opportunities through a complete development process and career-development tools
- Opportunity to purchase stock at a reduced price
- Participation in a worldwide community of over 50,000 employees and multicultural teams
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