Position: DataOps Engineer/ Senior Data Platform Engineer
Location: Richmond, VA
Duration: 12 months
Job ID: 176054
Job Overview: The Senior Programmer Analyst role focuses on supporting and optimizing enterprise data platforms to ensure their operational health, performance, and scalability. This position is critical for implementing DataOps best practices, enabling reliable analytics delivery, and ensuring data platforms are production-ready, secure, and cost-effective.
Responsibilities: - Own the day-to-day operation, reliability, and performance of enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, Talend, Denodo, and Informatica IDMC.
- Partner with architecture and delivery teams to evaluate, implement, and optimize new data platform capabilities.
- Implement and evolve DataOps standards, tooling, and operational processes.
- Ensure data platforms are secure, scalable, observable, and production-ready.
- Drive platform optimization across performance, cost, resiliency, and user experience.
- Support analytics, data science, and reporting teams by enabling smooth data onboarding and issue resolution.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote platform engineering best practices.
- Monitor and maintain platform health, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards.
- Troubleshoot complex data pipeline and platform issues.
- Optimize queries, workloads, and platform configurations.
- Document platform standards, runbooks, and operational procedures.
- Collaborate with security and governance teams on access controls and compliance.
- Provide technical guidance across multiple concurrent initiatives.
Qualifications: - Minimum of 7+ years of experience in data platform engineering, data infrastructure, and/or analytics platform operations.
- Proven expertise in setting up, supporting, and operating enterprise data platforms such as Talend, Snowflake, Oracle Exadata, Denodo, and Informatica IDMC.
- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience writing and optimizing complex SQL queries for analytical and reporting workloads.
- Minimum of 3 years designing Data Marts using dimensional modeling (facts, dimensions, star/snowflake schemas).
- Experience implementing DataOps practices such as monitoring, alerting, operational dashboards, runbooks, or release support for data platforms.
- Strong communication skills to explain platform capabilities, limitations, and tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to partner closely with business technology analysts, data architects, data engineers, data governance analysts, and analytics users.
- Experience with infrastructure as code or automation frameworks is a plus.
- Familiarity with cloud data platform optimization and cost management is preferred.
- Knowledge of security, access controls, and governance models in data platforms is desirable.
- Education: Minimum of High School Diploma or Equivalency.
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Pay Range: $75 - $78/ hr. W2
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