Senior Cybersecurity Data Engineer - Data Platform & Lakehouse SME
$159,600–$239,400 year
Hybrid · Reston, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Senior Cybersecurity Data Engineer to serve as the SME for Data Platform and Lakehouse Architecture. Define how data is stored, partitioned, and accessed; establish guardrails for security, governance, and compute standards; lead the design and implementation of a cloud-native Data Lake/Lakehouse on AWS (storage formats Iceberg/Delta Lake, partition strategies, schema evolution, and file maintenance). Build and optimize the foundational compute engines and query layers (AWS EMR, Athena, Redshift); design data marts and semantic platforms; enforce IAM, encryption, network isolation, and cross-account/data-sharing patterns using Lake Formation and IAM. Embrace Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or AWS CDK) to provision multi-environment data infrastructures; manage cost governance and capacity planning to scale with data growth. Certifications and hands-on work with SQL and Python/Bash for automation; familiarity with Snowflake, Databricks, or Redshift; experience with Trino or StarRocks is a plus. Lead a data platform that powers security telemetry, threat hunting, data science, and BI tooling across a large enterprise.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of deep experience in data platform engineering, cloud infrastructure engineering, or data architecture
- Expert-level knowledge of open-table formats (Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake)
- Experience with Parquet, ORC, metadata layers
- Advanced, production-level expertise with AWS data stack (AWS EMR, AWS Athena, S3, AWS Lake Formation)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or AWS CDK)
- Deep understanding of modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS Redshift) and cluster sizing/workload management
- SQL proficiency (performance tuning, query optimization) and Python or Bash for automation
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Data Engineer
- Experience setting up multi-region data lakes, cross-account data sharing, or data mesh architectures
- Experience with open-source engines like Trino or StarRocks
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