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Senior Cybersecurity Data Engineer - Data Platform & Lakehouse SME

$159,600–$239,400 year

Hybrid · Reston, Virginia, United States

Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Not Specified
Company size
Enterprise

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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