# Senior Data Engineer

**Company**: Workday
**Location**: Reston, VA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $159,600 USD - $239,400 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Data Platform and Lakehouse Architecture. In this role, you will be the foundational architect of our data universe.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Lead the design, infrastructure implementation, and evolution of our enterprise Data Lake/Lakehouse ecosystem on AWS.

- Serve as the ultimate authority on modern open-table formats (Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake).

- Design, configure, and maintain the foundational compute engines and query layers (e.g., AWS EMR clusters, AWS Athena, Redshift).

- Define the foundational infrastructure and access patterns for enterprise Data Marts.

- Architect and enforce global data governance, network isolation, encryption (at rest and in transit), and fine-grained access controls using AWS Lake Formation and AWS IAM.

- Treat all platform infrastructure as software.

- Proactively monitor, alert, and optimize AWS data spend.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- 7+ years in data platform engineering, cloud infrastructure engineering, or data architecture, supporting large-scale enterprise data lakes.

- 3+ years operating Apache Iceberg (highly preferred) or Delta Lake in production.

- 3+ years production-level experience across the AWS data stack, specifically AWS EMR (Spark/Presto/Trino tuning), AWS Athena, S3 infrastructure, and AWS Lake Formation.

- 3+ years using Terraform or AWS CDK for provisioning secure, multi-environment data infrastructures.

- 3+ years of modern cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks, or AWS Redshift) and cluster sizing/workload management experience.

**Other Qualifications:**

- Advanced proficiency in SQL (performance tuning, query optimization) and Python or Bash for infrastructure automation.

- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified Data Engineer.

- Experience setting up multi-region data lakes, cross-account data sharing, or data mesh architectures.

- Experience with open-source query engines like Trino or StarRocks.

**Salary:** $159,600 USD - $239,400 USD

**Work Environment:** With Flex Work, we're combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections, maintain a strong community, and do their best work.

## Skills

### Required
- AWS
- Apache Iceberg
- Delta Lake
- Terraform
- AWS CDK
- SQL
- Python
- Bash
- Snowflake
- Databricks
- AWS Redshift

### Nice to have
- Trino
- StarRocks
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified Data Engineer

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