Senior Lead Data Platform Engineer - Cloud

Contract: W2

    Skills

    • Engineer
    • AWS
    • Jenkins
    • API
    • Scala
    • Python
    • Database
    • Java
    • SQL

    Job Description

    Senior Lead Data Platform Engineer - Cloud in Charlotte, North Carolina

    Posted 01/26/23

    THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING:
    • 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
    WHAT THEY OFFER YOU:
    • 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
    WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT:
    • 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.

    THE BACKGROUND THAT FITS
    Required Skills:
    • 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.