Senior Lead Data Platform Engineer - Cloud

Senior Lead Data Platform Engineer - Cloud in Charlotte, North Carolina Posted 01/26/23

• Fortune 100 Financial Services Company
• 100-year history of dedication to customer satisfaction, success and growth
• Tremendous growth and new business strategy leading to the need for new talent
• Significant investments in cutting-edge technology

• Culture: Excellent work environment that fosters collaboration
• Growth: Ability to make an impact on the direction of the organization
• Opportunity: Gain hands-on experience working with cutting-edge technology
• Stability: Recent financial performance of the company has reported record profits

• Leads data platform initiatives through the integration of engineering principles and maintenance of cloud services.
• Reviews data platform requirements, builds scalable and efficient processes, and populates platform data in the cloud.
• Curates large amounts of real-time and relational data and disseminates it among the data platform team.
• Utilizes data engineering expertise and enhances the data cloud and team processes.
• Drives the data platform roadmap and defines requirements, timelines, and resources.
• Streamlines operations for the data platform and leads complex integrations with the data engineering team.
• Collaborates with data engineers on platform initiatives and cloud management for optimal business operations.
• Reviews data platform requirements, builds scalable processes, and populates platform data in the cloud.

• Strong ability to develop and deploy cloud-based applications using AWS native services. Ability to identify key features of AWS services and use the AWS service APIs, AWS CLI, and SDKs to write Infra-as-Code (IaC) modules.
• Previous experience with code development & maintain AWS cloud-based production systems, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security.
• Knowledge and understanding with CI/CD delivery frameworks (e.g Jenkins / CloudBees), infrastructure as code software tools (Terraform, Cloud Formation), configuration management/orchestration tools (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible), and version control methodology (e.g. GIT)
• Possess Coding Skills: API Design, Scala, Python, Database procedural languages and scripting (Java Script, Nod.JS and No-SQL)
• Previous experience with RDS, EMR/Hadoop, MongoDB, and legacy RDBMS databases.