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Principal Platform Engineer

Techgene

 

United States

Posted On: 30+ days ago
Experience: 12+ years
Availability: Remote
Openings: 1
Category: Platform Engineer
Tenure: Contract - Corp-to-Corp
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Description

You will lead the design and implementation of scalable data architectures and self-service platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Drive adoption of modern data stack technologies, specifically data lakehouse architecture.
  • Partner with product managers, data scientists, and analysts to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
  • Mentor data engineers and software engineers while providing architectural oversight during design and deployment.
  • Define standards for access control, quality, cataloging, and observability across domains.
  • Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure compliance with privacy and GxP requirements.
  • Evaluate emerging tools to improve scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
  • Own architecture documentation and promote the reuse of patterns across the Data Platform.

Required Skills

  • 12+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on scalable data architectures.
  • Proven expertise in architecting end-to-end data solutions on AWS.
  • Deep understanding of data lakehouse architecture.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Spark, and Apache Iceberg.
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, and dbt.
  • Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and modern DevOps practices.
  • Background in architecting and leading self-service data platform capabilities.
  • Strong leadership skills with experience mentoring engineers and influencing stakeholders.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience with data governance frameworks, lineage, cataloging, and metadata management.
  • Familiarity with data privacy, compliance, and security best practices.
  • Prior experience working closely with product, data science, and analytics teams.

Education

Any Gradute

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