Data Platform Engineer officer

Role Summary

Design, build, and run core services and reusable components for the open-architecture data platform, enabling scalable ingestion, metadata-driven processing, governance, and reliable multi-engine data consumption. Partner with Platform Engineering and Data Engineering teams to provide secure, observable, production-grade capabilities that support Core Reference, IBOR, and Stamford data initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Design and build backend services and shared libraries that provide platform capabilities, including:

Streaming & batch ingestion frameworks

Metadata-driven pipelines

API and consumption layer integrations

Transformation engine and MDM engine

Engineer reusable platform components aligned with open formats (Iceberg,  Parquet), catalog systems (Polaris,  Horizon,  Unity Catalog), and query engines (Spark,  Trino)

Implement platform security controls including role-based access control, authentication, and integration with enterprise entitlements

Build and maintain platform observability (logging, metrics, traces), alerting, and operational dashboards in support of SLAs

Collaborate with architects to define scalable, extensible designs and ensure adherence to open standards

Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and production readiness practices

Ensure platform services meet enterprise security and compliance requirements (SCC, governance)

Participate in  on-call  / major incident management and troubleshoot production issues to maintain platform stability

Qualifications

Strong programming skills in  Python  and  Java; knowledge of  Rust  is a bonus

Strong programming skills in  Spark, with hands-on knowledge of optimization and debugging

Hands-on experience with  Snowflake  and  Databricks  as data platforms

Strong understanding of SQL optimization, execution, and large-scale analytics

Deep understanding and working knowledge of open table formats such as  Apache Iceberg  are preferred

Deep understanding of distributed computing and hyperscale

Experience building production-grade services in cloud environments;  AWS,GCP and/or Azure  is preferred

Familiarity with data catalogs (any of  Polaris,  Horizon,  Unity) and metadata management

Familiarity with streaming pipelines and  Kafka  is preferred

Understanding of data modeling and data product design

Experience with CI/CD, containers, and Kubernetes

Financial/data platform background preferred but not required

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