Senior Data Platform Engineer
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Seattle
Posted on: April 19, 2024
Job Description:
The FoundationWe are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty,
disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple
premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or
circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive
lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity
of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an
exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which
include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no
premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave,
foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and
opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a
workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to
thrive both personally and professionally.The TeamAs part of the IT
Enterprise Data Solutions (EDS) department, the Data Infrastructure
team's mission is to lead on data technology and utilization,
enabling informed decision-making, knowledge management, and
strategic insights across the Foundation. We are committed to
providing a robust, secure, and scalable data platform that enables
data-driven initiatives and cultivates collaboration. Working with
our business operations and Foundation strategy program partners,
the team supports the management of on-premises and cloud data
infrastructure, data security and access controls and EDS
technology stack and roadmaps.Your RoleYou will be the primary
domain expert on the team's cloud infrastructure! The role will
develop and support needs of the Enterprise Data solution team to
improve the quality and availability of information to drive better
search, reporting, data sharing, data science and analytics
capabilities. You will grow and optimize our data and data
repository as well as optimize data flow and collection for
multi-functional teams. As an authority on cloud data
infrastructure builds and configuration, you enjoy optimizing data
systems and building them from the ground up. You will work with a
team consisting of business partners, business and data analysts,
solution architects, data architects, data and infrastructure
engineers, quality engineers and other technical roles in an Agile
delivery environment.What You'll Do
- Lead the setup and configuration of cloud-based infrastructure,
primarily focusing on Azure. Design and implement scalable,
efficient solutions that align with the foundation's governed cloud
strategy.
- Lead data storage solutions, including data lakes, data
warehouse, data marts and databases. Ensure data is stored
securely, efficiently, and is easily accessible for analytics, data
sharing and reporting.
- Continuously monitor and optimize the performance of data
infrastructure components. Identify bottlenecks and implement
improvements to improve system efficiency.
- Implement security standard processes to safeguard sensitive
data. Ensure compliance with foundation information security
policies, data privacy regulations and policies, such as GDPR or
HIPAA.
- Collaborate with data architects, business systems analysts,
and customers to understand their infrastructure requirements and
provide vital support.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using
Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform, enabling
reproducibility and scalability.
- Data Platform architecture, system design, and platform
engineering of Azure cloud infrastructure, ADLS Gen2, ADF, Event
Hub, Kafka, Databricks, SQL Server and Snowflake.
- Application performance monitoring through build, and
provisioning of data observability across teams, environments and
automation for a new enterprise data platform.
- Build and maintain comprehensive documentation for
infrastructure configurations, processes, and standard
methodologies.
- Implement robust monitoring and alerting solutions to
proactively identify and address infrastructure issues.
- Participate in problem and Incident triage, investigate, and
resolve infrastructure-related issues promptly.
- Work on planning and forecasting to ensure that infrastructure
resources are appropriately allocated to meet current and future
data processing needs.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging cloud technologies, standard
processes, and industry trends to ensure the data infrastructure
remains innovative and driven.
- Participate in agile development practices, including sprint
planning, backlog grooming, and design reviews.
- Evaluate new tools, technologies and platforms through rapid
POC'sYour Experience
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related
field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in data infrastructure or related roles,
with a focus on designing and maintaining data infrastructure.
- Demonstrable experience and knowledge with the architecture,
design and settings of Azure cloud data services.
- Experience with automated infrastructure provisioning, using
industry standard tools such as Terraform.
- Experience in cloud governance practices via Azure Policy,
Azure Arc, and monitoring/logging services.
- Deep understanding of data security practices, access controls,
encryption, and compliance.
- Experience in implementing Continuous Integration and
Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) solutions for data pipelines and
databases, ensuring automated testing, deployment, and monitoring
processes.
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes, GitHub, Harness / Drone, or
Azure DevOPS required.
- Data Observability experience with one or more of New Relic,
Azure Monitor, Datadog or Dynatrace desired.
- Demonstrable ability to quickly respond to incidents by
assessing the situation, lead incident triage, solve issues, and
providing immediate short-term solutions. Capable of formulating
and implementing medium and long-term strategies to prevent similar
incidents in the future.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, and Jira required.
- Experience supporting and working with multi-functional teams
in a dynamic environment.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration
skills.
- A dedication to diversity, equality, and inclusion, confirmed
through past experiences or initiatives.
- Experience with data engineering, analytics tools, data
modeling, and visualization platforms (e.g., Power BI) is a plus.*
Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is
located without visa sponsorship.The salary range for this role is
$137,500 to $206,200 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences
where our offices are located, in Seattle, Washington D.C., and
Boston (Cambridge). The range for this role in these locations is
$149,800 to $224,600 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we
strive to balance competitive pay with our mission and new hires
are typically brought into the organization at a salary between the
range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in
the range will depend on a candidate's job-related skills,
experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview
process.Hiring RequirementsAs part of our standard hiring process
for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful
completion of a background check.Candidate AccommodationsIf you
require assistance due to a disability in the application or
recruitment process, please submit a request .Inclusion StatementWe
are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We
strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever
greater diversity, equity, and inclusion - of voices, ideas, and
approaches - and we support this diversity through all our
employment practices.All applicants and employees who are drawn to
serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair
treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy,
sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender
expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status,
marital status, and prior protected activity.
Keywords: Disability Solutions, Lacey , Senior Data Platform Engineer, Engineering , Seattle, Washington
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