Job AWS Platform Engineer. Remote, Mississauga

This is a remote position.

We are seeking a skilled and motivated AWS Platform Engineer to join our team and contribute to the development and maintenance of scalable data solutions. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with EMR and Spark (PySpark), a strong understanding of data mesh principles, and a passion for building robust data pipelines and quality frameworks.

Location: Remote

Status: Contract

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and optimize data pipelines using EMR and Spark (PySpark)
  
• Implement and manage AWS Lake Formation for secure and governed data access
  
• Contribute to the development of data mesh solutions, enabling domain-oriented data ownership and interoperability
  
• Write and maintain data quality checks to ensure accuracy, completeness, and reliability of data
  
• Establish a standardized framework to promote consistency and ensure alignment with architectural standards
  
• Support light DevOps tasks, with a strong preference for experience using Terraform for infrastructure as code
  

• Proven experience with Apache Spark and AWS EMR
  
• Familiarity with Lake Formation and AWS data lake architecture
  
• Exposure to data mesh concepts and implementation
  
• Experience writing data validation and quality checks
  
• Experience defining best-practices framework to ensure consistency and compliance with architectural standard
  
• Experience with Terraform or similar tools for infrastructure automation