Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UST is a mission-driven technology company that delivers transformative, human-centered solutions through teams operating in more than 30 countries. The Sr Data Platform Engineer will help unify Databricks workspaces or Snowflake accounts by consolidating catalogs, aligning security and access models, migrating data pipelines and code, and optimizing cloud resources and costs.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the architectural design and execution strategy to merge separate Databricks workspaces or Snowflake accounts into a unified platform
- Metadata & Catalog Unification: Consolidate data catalogs, aligning separate Unity Catalogs or Snowflake Shares into a single, company-wide governance model
- Security & Access Alignment: Audit and merge distinct security models, unifying IAM roles, active directory syncs, and row/column-level access controls
- Pipeline & Code Migration: Refactor and migrate legacy ETL/ELT pipelines, Spark workflows, and orchestration routines to point to the new unified tenant
- Cost & Asset Optimization: Identify overlapping data assets, compute resources, and storage tiers during the merge to optimize cloud spend
- This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required
Skills
- UST is searching for a Sr Data Platform Engineer Tenant with deep expertise in Databricks (workspace administration, Delta Lake, Photon) OR Snowflake (multi-account management, Snowpark, Virtual Warehouses)
- · Cloud Infrastructure: Proven experience managing AWS ecosystems (S3, IAM, CloudTrail, VPC, Route53) with an emphasis on cross-account access
- · Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong experience writing Terraform scripts to provision and replicate workspace configurations
- · Development Skills: Python and SQL skills, with experience auditing and refactoring code written by other teams
- · 4-6 years of experience in Data Platform Engineering, or Data Architecture
- · Ability to act as a technical lead, mapping out migration schedules and coordinating tasks with the mid-level engineer
- · Prior experience working on data platform migrations, cloud account consolidations
Benefits
- Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year
- 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year)
- 10 paid holidays
- Paid bereavement leave and jury duty
- Eligibility to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their dependents residing in the US
- Company-paid basic life insurance for employees
- Company-paid accidental death and disability insurance for employees
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability benefits for employees
- Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits
- Participation in a Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Participation in a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines
- All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.
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