Senior Data Engineer, AWS Fintech

AWS Finance Technology (Fintech) is seeking an exceptional Senior Data Engineer to join their team building large-scale financial data systems that power one of the world's leading cloud providers. The role involves developing and maintaining one of the world's largest finance data warehouses, processing billions of transactions daily that support AWS's continuous growth.

The position offers an opportunity to work at the intersection of cloud computing and financial technology, making direct impact on decisions that drive AWS's growth. You'll be working with an advanced AWS technical stack including EMR, Redshift, Glue, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, QuickSight, and Athena. The team is also enhancing financial systems with machine learning capabilities using SageMaker while maintaining enterprise-grade security through KMS, IAM, and CloudTrail.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll design and build high-performance solutions that operate at global scale, develop real-time financial data processing pipelines handling millions of transactions per second, create automated reconciliation systems for global reporting, and implement sophisticated data lakes and warehouses for analytics and compliance. You'll also build self-service analytics platforms for finance teams and develop ML-powered anomaly detection systems.

The AWS FinTech data team collaborates extensively with Finance, Tax, Accounting, AWS Forecasting, Commerce Platform, and Infrastructure teams to build reliable financial systems. The culture emphasizes data-driven decisions, technical excellence, and cross-team collaboration while maintaining operational excellence.

A typical day combines technical leadership and hands-on development across global financial systems, including reviewing pipeline performance, collaborating with finance stakeholders, leading technical design reviews, optimizing complex ETL jobs, mentoring junior engineers, implementing security enhancements, and ensuring critical data pipelines run efficiently.

This role offers competitive compensation based on geographic location, with additional benefits including equity, sign-on payments, and comprehensive medical and financial benefits. Join AWS Fintech to be part of developing the financial infrastructure that powers the future of cloud computing.