Senior Platform Engineer (Data Platform)
Core
Owns the standards, governance model, and tooling for a Databricks-based data platform used by data engineering teams.
Role type
Senior IC platform engineer (data platform)
Builds
Databricks platform, CI/CD pipelines, Unity Catalog governance, Terraform infrastructure
Domain
Financial services (ETFs) + Data Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Databricks, Unity Catalog, Terraform, CI/CD, Data modeling (Data Vault 2.0 or dimensional), Observability, Disaster recovery
Preferred skills
Financial market data (ETFs), Postgres at scale, MLflow, AI-assisted engineering
Technologies
Databricks, Unity Catalog, Terraform, CI/CD, Postgres, MLflow
Responsibilities
Define delivery standards (templates, shared libraries, CI/CD), enforce CI rules (conventions, tests, release gates), design self-service Terraform infrastructure, manage Unity Catalog governance (classification, lineage, sharing), define access models and auditing, own observability and cost management, lead disaster recovery and incident response, mentor engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC