Data Platform Engineer

PSECU

$100K — $120K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Systems required.
  • 5+ years of experience in data platform, DataOps, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering required.
  • Hands-on Snowflake administration experience in production required.
  • Experience in financial services, banking, insurance, healthcare or similar industries beneficial but not required.
  • Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.

Responsibilities

  • Administer the Snowflake environment focusing on performance, query optimization, and upgrades.
  • Manage and report on platform consumption costs, optimizing workloads accordingly.
  • Develop and maintain orchestration, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code for data workloads.
  • Monitor platform observability metrics and handle incident response protocols.
  • Implement role-based access control in collaboration with Information Security.
  • Plan and execute migrations for databases and platforms, ensuring readiness across teams.
  • Maintain compliance, disaster recovery, and backup protocols for the data platform.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with a minimum of 40% onsite expectation.
  • Regular Monday to Friday schedule (8am-4pm or 9am-5pm).
Full Job Description
The Data Platform Engineer owns the day-to-day reliability, operability, and cost efficiency of the cloud data platform, centered on Snowflake and the modern data stack. The role administers the platform; builds and operates orchestration, deployment automation, monitoring, and access implementation; owns consumption cost management; and executes database and platform migrations through their lifecycle. It operates within identity, network, and security controls owned by SecOps and NetOps, consolidating platform administration duties that are scattered today into one accountable, auditable role. Schedule: Monday - Friday, 8am -4pm or 9am - 5pm. This position will be a hybrid model both in person and remote with minimum of onsite expectation of 40% or as needed. In this position, you will - Administer the Snowflake environment, including warehouse configuration, performance and query optimization, environment management, and platform upgrades. - Own platform cost management, including tagging and attribution of compute, storage, and pipeline costs by domain and initiative; consumption monitoring and reporting; and workload optimization. - Build and operate orchestration, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code for data workloads, providing safe, repeatable deployment for engineering teams. - Operate platform observability: pipeline monitoring, data freshness tracking, alerting, incident response runbooks, and post-incident reviews. - Implement and operate role-based access control for the data platform in partnership with Information Security, following organization-owned identity and access processes. - Plan and execute database and platform migrations based on lifecycle and readiness, validating with dependent teams before retirement of prior environments. - Maintain disaster recovery, backup, and compliance evidence for the data platform. - Provide platform guardrails, tooling, and knowledge transfer that raise the cloud-platform proficiency of engineering teams and enable safe use of the governed environment. - Other duties as assigned Qualifications: Bachelors: Computer Science (Required), Bachelors: Information Systems (Required), Bachelors (Required) 5+ years in data platform, DataOps, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering. | RequiredAny equivalent combination of experience and education. | RequiredFinancial services, banking, insurance, healthcare, or similar industry experience. | Not Requiredhands-on Snowflake administration experience in production. | Required SnowPro - N/A

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