Platform Engineer - Virtual Interview - 10+years

Role**

Platform Lead Engineer and Admin

Required Technical Skill Set**

Lead the technical direction of the Analytics and Data Management platforms across architecture, delivery quality, platform reliability, and team enablement. The Platform/Product Lead connects product roadmap goals with executable engineering plans and ensures scalable, cost-aware, and secure data solutions.

Core Responsibilities

• Define and govern platform architecture across Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, and BI ecosystem integrations.
• Lead engineering delivery for roadmap initiatives, technical debt reduction, and modernization topics.
• Set and enforce standards for coding, model design, testing, metadata, observability, and documentation.
• Drive platform reliability, incident response, RCA quality, and prevention actions with clear ownership.
• Manages platform operations, access lifecycle, and environment readiness.
• Owns onboarding/offboarding workflows, permission controls, and SOP adherence.
• Coordinates service requests, maintenance activities, and operational communications.
• Monitors platform health, job execution, and ticket SLA compliance.
• Supports audit/compliance needs via logs, controls, and process documentation.

Required Skills and Experience

• Hands-on experience with Snowflake, dbt, and orchestration (Airflow) in production-scale environments.
• Practical experience with BI/platform transitions and proof-of-concept evaluations.
• Platform operations mindset: SLA ownership, monitoring, CI/CD, cost optimization (FinOps), and quality gates.
• Platform administration, incident handling, ITSM workflow discipline, and access governance.
• Operational troubleshooting, runbook execution, and cross-team coordination.
• Strong SQL and data-warehousing expertise (medallion style layering, incremental patterns, dedup logic).