# AWS Lake Formation

Skill · Data Science, Analytics and AI/ML

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/aws-lake-formation

AWS Lake Formation is a managed service that simplifies setting up, securing, and managing a data lake on Amazon S3, handling tasks like data ingestion, cataloging, and fine-grained access control. Data engineers and architects use it to centralize permissions across analytics services (Athena, Redshift, EMR) rather than managing S3 bucket policies individually. It reduces the manual effort typically required to build a secure, governed data lake.

## Roles that use AWS Lake Formation

- [Data Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/data-engineer) — 1

Related skills: [Amazon Athena](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/amazon-athena), [Amazon S3](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/amazon-s3), [AWS Glue](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/aws-glue), [Data Governance](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/data-governance)

## Open roles requiring AWS Lake Formation (1)

- [Senior Cybersecurity Data Engineer - Data Platform & Lakehouse SME](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/51bc61ab-77a4-458e-a22e-d674f36dbe8e/senior-cybersecurity-data-engineer-data-platform-lakehouse-sme-at-workday) at [Workday](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/workday) — Full-time, $159,600 – $239,400