Staff Software Engineer – Data Platform
Job Summary
Job Description Summary
The Staff Software Engineer Data Platform is an individual contributor responsible for leading the design modernization and implementation of enterprise data platform capabilities. This role provides technical leadership in shaping scalable secure and reusable cloud-native platform solutions that align with business priorities enterprise architecture and engineering standards.The role operates across software engineering platform design and implementation execution to advance modern data platform patterns improve engineering consistency and support delivery of enterprise analytics and data product capabilities. As a technical leader this role influences design decisions across teams drives adoption of modern engineering practices and strengthens platform quality through automation governance and operational discipline.
Job Description
Essential Responsibilities
Lead design and implementation of enterprise data platform capabilities aligned to business priorities platform strategy and target-state architecture.
Define and evolve reusable platform patterns integration approaches and software services that support enterprise-scale analytics and data products.
Establish engineering approaches that improve scalability security reuse service orientation and delivery consistency.
Translate business and technical requirements into architecture direction implementation plans and engineering outcomes.
Guide solution design decisions by evaluating trade-offs across risk cost performance supportability and long-term maintainability.
Support engineering teams in the design build optimization and operation of enterprise data platform capabilities.
Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code CI/CD deployment automation and engineering practices that improve platform maturity.
Apply secure-by-design governance and compliance requirements in platform architecture and implementation decisions.
Contribute to architecture governance and collaborate with enterprise architecture security and other technical stakeholders on platform direction.
Evaluate emerging technologies and proof-of-concept opportunities for enterprise applicability and platform improvement.
Enable Databricks and lake house capabilities across key platform patterns including ingestion transformation orchestration optimization and governed access.
Promote observability platform insights and operational metrics to improve reliability adoption and cost efficiency.
Mentor engineers and strengthen engineering discipline technical quality and architectural consistency across teams.
Qualifications / Requirements
Bachelors degree in a STEM discipline or equivalent relevant experience in software engineering cloud platform engineering software architecture or enterprise data platform environments.
Professional experience in software engineering platform engineering cloud architecture enterprise application engineering or data platform design.
Proven ability to lead technical direction across multiple initiatives products or platform capabilities and influence outcomes beyond an individual team.
Strong foundation in software engineering principles and practices including solution design standards alignment risk-based decision-making and delivery oversight.
Experience applying reusable design patterns architecture practices and platform engineering approaches to build scalable and supportable systems.
Demonstrated success collaborating across engineering enterprise architecture security and business functions in complex environments.
Strong commitment to modernization operational excellence governance and secure implementation practices.
Strong communication and influencing skills with the ability to explain technical recommendations and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Technical Expertise
Enterprise cloud data platform engineering and scalable platform design
Apache Spark and PySpark including distributed processing and performance optimization.
Delta Lake including schema management optimization lifecycle practices and governed data operations.
Python Scala Java SQL or similar languages for production-grade engineering solutions.
AWS and/or Azure infrastructure and platform services relevant to enterprise data ecosystems
Infrastructure as Code configuration management CI/CD and deployment automation
Databricks cloud CLI tooling REST APIs workspace automation and multi-environment governance
Access control identity storage models network connectivity monitoring observability and cost/performance optimization.
Business Acumen & Leadership
Provides technical leadership across platform capabilities through expertise sound judgment and execution focus.
Translates business priorities into implementation direction engineering decisions and platform improvements.
Influences technical direction across teams and helps build alignment on platform patterns standards and delivery approaches.
Evaluates decisions through the lens of business value scalability risk cost and operational effectiveness.
Leads through collaboration technical credibility and consistent engineering discipline rather than formal people leadership.
Coaches others individuals to strengthen technical capability architectural thinking and delivery quality.
Advances platform maturity through improved tools patterns automation and engineering practices.
Personal Attributes
Strategic and forward-looking mindset with practical execution focus
Effective in complex ambiguous and fast-evolving environments
Collaborative and influential across teams and stakeholder groups
Open-minded adaptable and improvement-oriented
Clear communicator able to simplify complex technical concepts
Results-oriented and committed to secure scalable and business-aligned outcomes
Additional Information
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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