Senior Data Engineer — Amazon Web Service, ProServe Analytics and Intelligence
Austin, TX - USA
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Job Summary
In this role you will architect and build the foundations that determine whether every agent answer ProServe produces is trustworthy: a governed multi-tiered data warehouse a graph-based knowledge layer a Model Context Protocol (MCP) interface over production data systems and the canonical datasets that serve analytics ML and agentic workflows from a single source. You will lead architectural decisions drive platform standards across the data engineering team and translate complex technical constraints into roadmap decisions that ProServe leadership acts on.
The right candidate is an engineer who thinks in systems not just pipelines: someone who is energized by deep technical ownership thrives at the intersection of data architecture and AI infrastructure and brings the rigor and judgment to make production-scale platforms trustworthy and self-improving.
Key job responsibilities
Data Platform Architecture and Governance: Own the architecture and evolution of ProServes internal data warehouse platform including cluster topology workload isolation access control design and migration sequencing at production scale. Define and enforce the architectural standards data contracts and quality gates that govern how data flows from source systems into analytics and AI consumption layers.
Foundational Data Buildout: Lead the design and buildout of canonical datasets across ProServes core business domains. Establish common definitions governed relationships metadata standards and reusable data objects that serve analytics ML and agentic workflows from a single source.
Pipeline Engineering and Operational Excellence: Build secure efficient privacy-compliant data pipelines optimized for analytics ML and agent consumption. Own monitoring alarming runbooks and SLA tracking for production data infrastructure. Lead on-call rotation and drive operational health reviews across the team.
Agentic Data Infrastructure: Build and maintain the data interfaces including a Model Context Protocol (MCP) layer over production data systems that enable large language models and AI agents to retrieve accurate role-appropriate business context. Ensure these interfaces are production-grade: governed observable and backed by SLA-tracked refresh pipelines.
Graph-Based Knowledge Layer: Design and build a graph-based knowledge layer (Amazon Neptune Analytics or equivalent) that enables consistent semantic data traversal across ProServes core business objects supporting self-service workflows and agentic retrieval patterns that require relational context beyond what tabular data surfaces.
Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Define data engineering best practices for the team including data discovery naming conventions access security and documentation standards. Lead design reviews across your own and adjacent team architectures. Mentor junior engineers provide input on technical development and promotions and build alignment across discordant architectural positions.
A day in the life
You will work at the intersection of data architecture agentic infrastructure and production operations. Your primary customers are the engineering and analytics teams building ProServes production AI agents and the thousands of internal users who depend on the dashboards and self-service products those agents power. You will own the architectural decisions that define what the agentic infrastructure can and cannot do lead design reviews and translate complex platform constraints into roadmap decisions that ProServe leadership acts on. You will regularly collaborate with Business Intelligence Engineers Data Engineers and Data Scientists to push the boundaries of what is possible and drive the organizations agentic transformation.
About the team
AWS Professional Services (ProServe) partners with enterprise customers to accelerate cloud transformation across strategy migration modernization and AI-driven innovation. The Analytics and Intelligence team is ProServes internal data platform organization: the layer that transforms raw business data into trusted governed information that field practitioners operational leaders and AI agents act on.
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- 5 years of data engineering experience
- Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language such as Python Java Scala or NodeJS
- Experience with MPP databases such as Amazon Redshift
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring other engineers for best practices on data engineering
- Experience in data warehouse technical architectures data modeling infrastructure components ETL/ ELT and reporting/analytic tools and environments data structures and hands-on SQL coding
- Experience architecting and executing large-scale data warehouse migrations including workload isolation cluster separation and access control redesign
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems prompt engineering and LLM data access patterns
- Experience with graph databases and knowledge graph construction (Amazon Neptune Neo4j or equivalent) for enterprise-scale semantic data applications
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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at TX Austin - 154600.00 - 209100.00 USD annually
USA TX Dallas - 154600.00 - 209100.00 USD annually
USA VA Arlington - 154600.00 - 209100.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 154600.00 - 209100.00 USD annually
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