Data Platform Engineer Lakehouse Architecture

We are seeking an experienced Data Platform Engineer to design and implement a cloud-based data lakehouse platform that ingests engineering and security tool data, transforms it through multiple layers, and serves it to both analytics dashboards and AI agents.

Experience:

- 8+ years in data engineering roles, with at least 2 years building lakehouse architectures (Bronze/Silver/Gold or equivalent medallion patterns) - Proven track record delivering production-grade data platforms - Experience with graph databases (Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, TigerGraph) for relationship modeling - Hands-on with stream processing (Kafka, Flink, Spark Streaming, Kinesis)

Technical Skills (Core): - Cloud Platforms : Deep expertise in AWS, (S3/Blob, RDS/SQL Database, managed Kafka, serverless compute) - SQL & Data Modeling : Expert-level SQL, dimensional modeling, SCD2, normalization vs. denormalization trade-offs - Transformation Tools : dbt, Databricks SQL, Dataform, or custom SQL/Python frameworks - Programming : Python or Scala for data processing, scripting, and automation - Orchestration : Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Step Functions, or Azure Data Factory - IaC : Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, or ARM templates

Technical Skills (Preferred): - Search : OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or Solr for text indexing and retrieval - Graph : Neo4j Cypher, SPARQL, or Gremlin for graph queries; experience with graph ETL - Data Quality : Great Expectations, dbt tests, or custom validation frameworks - Real-time : Flink, Spark Streaming, or serverless event processing (Lambda, Cloud Functions) - Monitoring : Grafana, Datadog, or CloudWatch for data pipeline observability

Professional Skills:

- Communication : Explain technical trade-offs (cost, performance, complexity) to non-technical stakeholders - Problem-Solving : Debug data quality issues, optimize slow queries, resolve schema conflicts - Collaboration : Work with data scientists, DevOps engineers, and compliance teams - Autonomy : Manage ambiguity; propose solutions when requirements are incomplete