Platform Engineer Solution Architect

Midtown, TN - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Required Location: Hybrid/Midtown New York City 3 days a week.

Were seeking a seasoned (10 YEARS 15 PREFERRED) Platform Engineer / Solution Architect to lead the end to end implementation and adoption of a modern data catalog and metadata platform such as Atlan or Alation in a Banking or Financial services environment. You will architect the solution integrate it with our data ecosystem (warehouses pipelines BI ML) operationalize metadata ingestion and lineage drive governance and security and enable organization-wide adoption through automation training and change management. Candidates must have experience with production-grade catalog platform deployed (SaaS or self-managed) with SSO RBAC and secure network patterns as well as Automated metadata ingestion for priority sources (e.g. SQL Server Snowflake Databricks). Data Catalog Implementation. ***Candidates must have recent architect level experience working with Atlan or Alation in Banking or Capital Markets

Job Description:

Platform Engineer / Solution Architect - Data Catalog Implementation (Atlan or Alation)

Role Summary

Were seeking a seasoned Platform Engineer / Solution Architect to lead the end to end implementation and adoption of a modern data catalog and metadata platform such as Atlan or Alation. You will architect the solution integrate it with our data ecosystem (warehouses pipelines BI ML) operationalize metadata ingestion and lineage drive governance and security and enable organization-wide adoption through automation training and change management.

This role blends deep technical engineering and pragmatic architecture with product-minded thinking and stakeholder leadership.

Key Outcomes (First 12 Months)

Production-grade catalog platform deployed (SaaS or self-managed) with SSO RBAC and secure network patterns.
Automated metadata ingestion for priority sources (e.g. SQL Server Snowflake Databricks).
End-to-end lineage capability operationalized across application data pipelines and BI reporting tools.
Capability to build a business glossary stewardship workflows and metadata templates for critical domains.
CI/CD for connectors policies and configuration as code.
Capability to monitor adoption metrics implemented (active users curated assets coverage search-to-click trust flags).

Responsibilities

Experience: 10 years in data/platform engineering or solution architecture; 3 years implementing data catalog/metadata platforms (e.g. Atlan Alation) including connectors lineage governance workflows and adoption.
Data Stack & Integration: Proficiency with warehouses/lakes (Snowflake Databricks) databases (SQL Server) pipelines (ADF SSIS) BI (Power BI) and APIs.
Programming: Strong SQL and Python; scripting and automation for ingestion/enrichment; familiarity with SDKs/APIs.
Governance & Metadata: Business glossary/taxonomy ownership/stewardship models policy workflows; metadata modeling and enrichment.
DevOps/IaC: Terraform configuration-as-code CI/CD (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Azure DevOps) platform monitoring and incident response.
Soft Skills: Excellent communication stakeholder management and product mindset to translate governance into practical solutions.

Qualifications

Catalog implementation expertise (Atlan/Alation): Environment design (prod/non-prod) metadata model/glossary/taxonomy custom metadata templates lineage capture and custom enrichment pipelines/processors.
Integration & connectors: Metadata ingestion from data platforms (Snowflake Databricks SQL Server); pipelines (ADF SSIS); BI tools (Tableau Power BI).
Lineage & observability: setup and integration; alerting and incident response; monitoring
Data governance & policy enforcement: operationalize via catalog workflows approvals stewardship assignments and role-based access (RBAC/ABAC).
Security & compliance: SSO with SAML/OIDC user provisioning data masking policies audit logging and evidence collection.
Change Management: process implementation for DEV QA UA PROD environments
Reliability & performance: Capacity planning scaling ingest jobs tuning crawlers search/index performance and backup/restore and disaster recovery for catalog components.

Soft Skills

Exceptional communication and stakeholder management across engineering analytics and business.
Ability to translate governance requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.
Product mindset: iterate with feedback measure adoption and drive value.

Required Location: Hybrid/Midtown New York City 3 days a week. Were seeking a seasoned (10 YEARS 15 PREFERRED) Platform Engineer / Solution Architect to lead the end to end implementation and adoption of a modern data catalog and metadata platform such as Atlan or Alation in a Banking or Fi...