AWS Engineering Lead (15+)

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Role: AWS Engineering Lead (EDP SOW)

Location: Hanover, NJ (Onsite)

Start date: 2026-09-28

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JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are seeking an experienced AWS Engineering Lead to design develop and lead enterprise scale cloud native data platforms on AWS The ideal candidate will possess strong expertise in AWS Glue AWS Lambda Apache Iceberg AWS Step Functions and modern data engineering practices The candidate will lead a team of engineers architect scalable data solutions drive cloud best practices and collaborate with business and technology stakeholders to deliver high-quality data products

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

Lead architecture design and implementation of scalable AWS based data platforms

Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineering teams

Establish engineering standards coding best practices and CICD processes

Conduct design reviews code reviews and architecture governance activities

AWS Data Engineering

Design and develop data ingestion transformation and orchestration pipelines using AWS services

Build and maintain ETLELT workflows using AWS Glue

Develop serverless solutions using AWS Lambda

Design workflow orchestration using AWS Step Functions

Build and manage modern data lake solutions using Apache Iceberg on Amazon S3

Solution Design

Architect highly available secure scalable and cost-efficient cloud solutions

Design event driven and microservices based architectures

Optimize performance reliability and operational excellence of AWS workloads

Data Platform Management

Implement metadata management schema evolution partitioning and time travel capabilities using Iceberg

Support largescale batch and near Realtime data processing requirements

Ensure data quality governance and security compliance

DevOps Automation

Implement Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation Terraform or AWS CDK

Build automated deployment pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions Jenkins or AWS Code Pipeline

Monitor system performance using CloudWatch and operational dashboards

Stakeholder Management

Collaborate with Product Owners Architects and Business teams

Translate business requirements into scalable technology solutions

Drive project delivery while managing risks and dependencies

Required Skills Experience:

AWS Services

Strong Handson expertise:

AWS Glue

AWS Lambda

AWS Step Functions

Amazon S3

Amazon Athena

Amazon Redshift

AWS IAM

AWS CloudWatch

Event Bridge

SNSSQS

Secrets Manager

AWS Lake Formation

Data Engineering

Extensive experience building enterprise data lakes

Strong understanding of Apache Iceberg architecture and implementation

Expertise in ETLELT frameworks

Knowledge of partitioning strategies schema evolution compaction and timetravel concepts

Experience with Spark PySpark preferred

Programming

Python Expert

PySpark

SQL

Shell Scripting

Cloud Architecture

Serverless Architecture

Event Driven Design

Microservices

API Integration

Data Lake Architecture

DevOps

Terraform CloudFormation CDK

GitHub Actions Jenkins

CICD Pipeline Development

Automated Testing. xhyhwjd

Thanks & Regards,

Ganesh B

Sr. US IT Recruiter

Phone:

12000 Findley Road, Suite 350, Johns Creek, GA 30097