SIX is recruiting a data platform engineer to work on the company wide data platform. In this role, you will be part of a cross-functional team responsible for both designing and implementing a reliable platform for analytics and data science, as well as consulting internal customers who use the platform across the organization.
What You Will Do
- Be part of an international team that designs and maintains a mature cloud native data science platform, currently serving more than 14 internal analytics teams and 600+ users.
- Closely collaborate with key stakeholders from business data science teams and IT data engineering teams to enable them on the platform.
- Identify new requirements, analyze platform suitability, propose best practices and existing solutions through demos.
- Act as a hands-on data engineer to onboard new use cases and optimize existing ones by building production-ready ETL pipelines, ML/AI use cases and reporting solutions.
- Implement new infrastructure components with Infrastructure as code (IaC), as well as creating templates to ensure best practices and standardization among analytics teams.
What You Bring
- 4+ years of practical experience building production data pipelines, data modeling and BI tools in the cloud.
- Experience with Lakehouse architecture, preferably Databricks, with a strong knowledge of Spark and Open Table formats (Delta and/or Iceberg).
- Proficiency with Python (PySpark) and SQL with a solid understanding of software development and automation concepts like CI/CD to build production data and ML pipelines (DataOps/MLOps).
- Basic knowledge of cloud foundation services (IAM, networking, storage...), cloud costs management (FinOps) as well as tools to manage cloud infrastructure with IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu, Pulumi, bash scripting...) on Microsoft Azure (our primary cloud service provider) and/or Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform.
- Growth mindset and a very proactive attitude for continuous learning and development.
- Good presentation and communication skills.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.