Job DescriptionAgileEngine is an Inc. **** company that creates award-winning software for Fortune 500 brands and trailblazing startups across 17+ industries.
We rank among the leaders in areas like application development and AI/ML, and our people-first culture has earned us multiple Best Place to Work awards.WHY JOIN USIf you're looking for a place to grow, make an impact, and work with people who care, we'd love to meet you!
ABOUT THE ROLEWe are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to review the AWS architecture, CI/CD, and data pipelines of a media analytics platform, and mentor the engineering team in a part-time advisory role.MUST HAVES- 4+ years of deep, current hands-on experience with AWS: ECS/Fargate, ECR, RDS (Postgres), S3, SageMaker, EventBridge, VPC/ALB/CloudFront, IAM.
- Fluency in Infrastructure-as-code, specifically Terraform.
- Proven track record designing or auditing CI/CD pipelines and SDLC governance (e.g., Alembic for schema/version control, environment separation, release gating).
- Strong data engineering depth to provide defensible opinions on ETL / ingestion architecture (managed tools vs. custom builds).
- Experience evaluating AI-assisted / LLM-assisted development workflows (e.g., Claude Code) from an engineering-quality and cost-governance standpoint.
- Comfortable operating in a part-time advisory capacity (50% stepping down to 25%) as a strong communicator who can mentor less experienced engineers.
- Upper-intermediate English level.NICE TO HAVES- Prior experience working with small, fast-moving engineering teams.
- Understanding of MLOps pipelines and data science infrastructure.




- Media/AdTech domain knowledge is helpful but not required.WHAT YOU WILL DO- Audit the current AWS architecture across live applications, including ECS/ECR, RDS (Postgres), S3, VPC, CloudFront/SSO, and SageMaker-based MLOps pipeline design.
- Review the CI/CD process and end-to-end app development lifecycle, recommending SDLC governance layers (schema versioning, environment separation, release gating).
- Evaluate how the team uses Claude Code (PR generation, automated reviews, token/cost management) to confirm output meets professional engineering standards.
- Provide an early technical opinion on ETL / data-ingestion pipeline architecture (managed ELT tooling vs. custom build).
- Mentor and accelerate the day-to-day infrastructure build team, focusing on AWS, DevOps, CI/CD, and data engineering practices.
- Set out recommendations and technical direction where the audit surfaces necessary changes to the current build.
- Report findings and recommendations directly to leadership, framing high-level risk and readiness.PERKS AND BENEFITS- Professional growth: Mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps.
- Competitive compensation: USD-based pay with education, fitness, and team activity budgets.
- Exciting projects: Modern solutions with Fortune 500 and top product companies.
- Flextime: Versátil schedule with remote and office options.Requirements4+ years of experience as an SDET Technical Solvency: Strong programming skills in Java (a "developer-first" approach to QA).
API Automation: Extensive experience using REST Assured for backend testing.
Frontend Automation: Proven hands-on experience with Playwright.
Testing Philosophy: Deep understanding of the "shift-left" approach and integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines.
Ability to work independently and provide technical direction on quality initiatives.

📌 Senior Data Engineer Id88014 (Victoria)
🏢 AgileEngine
📍 Victoria