Senior Data Engineer

About the role

Senior Data Engineer expertise in building modern data platforms on AWS and Snowflake. Own design and operation of batch and near real time pipelines, event driven services, and microservices, with CI/CD automation using Git/GitHub Actions or Jenkins. Build secure, scalable architectures across S3, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, ECS/EKS, and streaming with Kinesis or MSK. Deliver high quality SQL and well modeled datasets, optimize performance and cost, and enforce strict security and observability with IAM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config. Expert in SQL and Python, strong data modeling, and proven mentorship.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud-native data and application pipelines on AWS, Snowflake and Modern ETL Platform
  • Batch and near real-time ingestion, transformation, and delivery
  • Event-driven architectures and microservices for data products and APIs
• Engineer robust CI/CD and platform automation 
  • Git/Jenkins based workflows, trunk/feature branch strategies, automated testing, artifact versioning
• Implement secure, scalable AWS architectures 
  • Built Data Lake, Compute and orchestration with Lambda, ECS/Fargate or EKS, Glue, Step Functions etc. 
  • Streaming and messaging with Kinesis, MSK, SNS/SQS, EventBridge
  • Networking: VPC, private endpoints, security groups, NACLs, route controls
• Build high-quality SQL transformations and datasets 
  • Author performant SQL for analytics, APIs, and apps
  • Design normalized and dimensional models, SCD patterns, data contracts, and SLAs
• Performance, cost, and reliability 
  • Optimize query performance, storage formats, partitions, and caching
  • Right-size compute, apply tagging and budgets, and monitor SLOs with CloudWatch
• Security, governance, and compliance 
  • IAM least privilege, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager, parameterization
  • CloudTrail, AWS Config, auditability, and incident runbooks
• Collaboration and leadership 
  • Translate business requirements into technical designs with product, analysts, and data science
  • Mentor junior engineers, run reviews, improve standards, and document patterns

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field 7–10 years of engineering experience building on AWS
• Expert-level SQL and strong Python for data engineering and automation
• Hands-on AWS experience delivering production systems: 
  • S3, Lambda, Glue, Step Functions, ECS/Fargate or EKS, Kinesis or MSK, SNS/SQS, EventBridge, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config
  • Solid grasp of networking, security, encryption, and observability
• CI/CD expertise: 
  • GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps
  • Automated testing, linting, IaC validation, environment promotion, and rollback strategies
• Strong data modelling and schema design for analytics and operational datasets
• Proven experience guiding junior team members and collaborating across functions
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

Good to have:

• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation
• Data integration tools such as Matillion; transformation frameworks like dbt
• Snowflake experience for warehousing and ELT patterns
• Streaming-first designs with Kafka, Kinesis, or Flink
• Experience exposing data via APIs and lightweight services
• Power BI or other BI platform familiarity
• Knowledge on the Azure cloud Platform
• AWS Certifications or Simila rCloud Certifications (Solutions Architect, Data Analytics, DevOps)
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WHO IS VONTIER

Vontier (NYSE: VNT) is a global industrial technology company uniting productivity, automation and multi-energy technologies to meet the needs of a rapidly evolving, more connected mobility ecosystem. Leveraging leading market positions, decades of domain expertise and unparalleled portfolio breadth, Vontier enables the way the world moves – delivering smart, safe and sustainable solutions to our customers and the planet. Vontier has a culture of continuous improvement and innovation built upon the foundation of the Vontier Business System and embraced by colleagues worldwide. Additional information about Vontier is available on the Company’s website at www.vontier.com.

At Vontier, we empower you to steer your career in the direction of success with a dynamic, innovative, and inclusive environment.

Our commitment to personal growth, work-life balance, and collaboration fuels a culture where your contributions drive meaningful change.  We provide the roadmap for continuous learning, allowing creativity to flourish and ideas to accelerate into impactful solutions that contribute to a sustainable future.

Join our community of passionate people who work together to navigate challenges and seize opportunities.  At Vontier, you are not on this journey alone-we are dedicated to equipping you with the tools and support needed to fuel your innovation, lead with impact, and thrive both personally and professionally.

Together, let’s enable the way the world moves!

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