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Data Platform Migration Engineer (AWS, Governance & FGAC)
Experience: 2–4 Years
Job Summary
We are seeking a hands-on Data Platform Migration Engineer to support the migration of AWS-based data platform assets into governed production environments. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with AWS data services, Spark/PySpark, IAM, data governance, and migration execution. This role will focus on migrating pipelines, tables, data products, dashboards, and analytics workloads while implementing secure access controls and ensuring successful source-to-target validation.
Key Responsibilities
- Migrate AWS data platform assets into governed production patterns.
- Inventory and prioritize pipelines, tables, dashboards, and data products for migration.
- Migrate Athena users, Glue Catalog assets, reporting workloads, and downstream consumers.
- Implement Fine-Grained Access Control (FGAC) and least-privilege access models.
- Create and manage IAM machine roles, policies, and permissions.
- Perform source-to-target validation, reconciliation, and migration testing.
- Support migration cutovers, rollback planning, and deployment activities.
- Ensure compliance, governance, lineage, auditability, and security requirements are met.
- Partner with Engineering, Analytics, BI, Security, and Business teams throughout migration activities.
Required Skills
- AWS IAM
- Amazon S3
- Amazon Athena
- AWS Glue
- Glue Data Catalog
- Spark / PySpark
- Python
- SQL
- Fine-Grained Access Control (FGAC)
- Data Governance
- Data Platform Migration
- IAM Roles, Policies, and Least-Privilege Access Controls
- Source-to-Target Validation and Reconciliation
Qualifications
- 2–4 years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or Data Migration projects.
- Hands-on experience working with AWS data services in production environments.
- Experience implementing governance, security, and access-control frameworks.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work independently and coordinate with multiple stakeholders during migration activities.