Platform Engineer III

Hudson Manpower

$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in platform engineering and business analysis
  • Proven ability in gathering and analyzing business requirements
  • Strong skills in documentation of functional and technical specifications
  • Experience with cloud platforms like AWS
  • Proficient in platform architecture, APIs, automation, and enterprise systems
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management abilities
  • Familiarity with financial services, specifically mortgage lending or banking

Responsibilities

  • Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
  • Gather and document business requirements from stakeholders
  • Facilitate meetings to discuss stakeholder needs
  • Analyze and recommend improvements to existing business processes
  • Create and maintain functional and technical documentation
  • Maintain platform uptime and design scalable architecture
  • Support cloud infrastructure and enhance automation processes

Benefits

  • Onsite/Hybrid work arrangement
  • Full-time employment
  • Opportunity to work in a collaborative environment
  • Access to advanced cloud and platform technologies
  • Involvement in cutting-edge projects in financial services
Full Job Description
Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer III with a strong combination of platform engineering and business analysis expertise. This role focuses on transforming business requirements into scalable technical solutions while collaborating with business stakeholders, architects, developers, and operations teams.

Unlike a traditional infrastructure engineering role, this position requires experience gathering business requirements, documenting functional and technical specifications, analyzing business processes, and delivering enterprise platform solutions.

The ideal candidate has experience with cloud platforms, software engineering, platform architecture, APIs, automation, and enterprise systems, along with exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

Location: Cincinnati, OH (Madisonville)
Work Arrangement: Onsite/Hybrid (Based on Business Requirements)
Employment Type: W2 - Full-Time
Duration: Full-Time
Work Authorization: Sponsorship not available
Experience Required: 8+ Years

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis
  • Translate business requirements into technical solutions
  • Gather, analyze, validate, and document business requirements
  • Facilitate stakeholder meetings
  • Analyze business processes and recommend improvements
  • Create functional and technical documentation
  • Identify process gaps and future-state improvements

Business Systems Analysis
  • Perform system analysis
  • Develop workflow diagrams and use cases
  • Create functional specifications
  • Support solution design sessions
  • Coordinate between business and technical teams

Platform Engineering
  • Maintain platform uptime and reliability
  • Design scalable platform architecture
  • Develop and maintain APIs
  • Improve automation and deployment processes
  • Enhance monitoring capabilities
  • Support cloud infrastructure

Cloud & Data Engineering
  • Support AWS-based environments
  • Work with Linux, Kubernetes, and Docker
  • Support Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, ETL, and Data Warehousing
  • Assist with analytics and machine learning platforms

DevOps
  • CI/CD
  • Infrastructure automation
  • Configuration management
  • Monitoring and alerting
  • Performance optimization

Preferred Technologies
  • AWS
  • Linux
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • Spark
  • Hadoop
  • ETL
  • REST APIs
  • Monitoring Tools
  • CI/CD

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
  • Strong business analysis and systems analysis experience
  • Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
  • Enterprise software and platform engineering experience
  • Excellent stakeholder communication
  • Cloud and DevOps knowledge
  • Financial services or mortgage domain experience
  • Agile and SAFe experience

Candidate Profile

Candidates with the following experience are highly preferred:
  • Mortgage Lending
  • Home Equity / HELOC
  • Loan Origination Systems
  • Encompass LOS
  • Banking or Financial Services
  • Enterprise Platform Engineering


Required Skills

Business Analysis
  • Requirements gathering
  • Stakeholder interviews
  • Functional documentation
  • Gap analysis
  • Process mapping

Business Systems Analysis
  • Technical documentation
  • Workflow creation
  • Solution analysis
  • Systems integration
  • Functional specifications

Platform Engineering
  • Cloud platforms
  • Linux
  • REST APIs
  • Automation
  • Monitoring
  • Platform reliability

Software Development

Experience with one or more of:
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • Go
  • PHP
  • Ruby
  • Elixir

Nice-to-Have Skills
  • Mortgage technology experience
  • Encompass LOS
  • Mortgage Lending
  • HELOC
  • Home Equity
  • Loan Origination Systems
  • Banking or Financial Services
  • SAFe Agile

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