Adv-Data Platform Engineer

OP RaaS; Tennessee; On-site; USD 130,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

OP RaaS in Tennessee seeks an experienced Data Platform Engineer to design, operate, and secure a modern Lakehouse platform powering analytics, AI, and data products. This role blends DBA discipline with cloud-native platform engineering to emphasize reliability, governance, automation, and cost efficiency.

You will drive infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and FinOps while partnering with cloud infrastructure teams to enable data engineering, analytics, and AI teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data science, computer science, information systems, or a related field.
• Five (5) years’ work experience in Data Platform Engineering, Cloud DBA, or related field.
• Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting.
• Experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate the enterprise Lakehouse platform (e.g., Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or similar).
• Manage platform configuration, storage architecture, catalogs, schemas, and access controls.
• Administer governance capabilities such as Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview, and enterprise security policies.
• Optimize platform performance, workload management, and query execution.
• Implement monitoring, observability, alerting, backup, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep) and CI/CD pipelines for platform deployment.
• Partner with cloud infrastructure teams on networking, identity, and compute.
• Enable data engineering, analytics, and AI teams through reusable platform capabilities.
• Manage platform cost optimization (FinOps) and capacity planning.
• Support regulatory compliance, auditing, and data protection requirements.
• Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Data analysis

Executive presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

POSITION OVERVIEW:

Responsible for designing, operating, securing, and optimizing the enterprise Lakehouse platform that powers analytics, AI, and data products Role evolves the traditional DBA discipline into a modern cloud-native data platform engineering function focused on reliability, governance, automation, scalability, and cost efficiency.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Design, implement, and operate the enterprise Lakehouse platform (e.g., Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or similar).
• Manage platform configuration, storage architecture, catalogs, schemas, and access controls.
• Administer governance capabilities such as Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview, and enterprise security policies.
• Optimize platform performance, workload management, and query execution.
• Implement monitoring, observability, alerting, backup, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep) and CI/CD pipelines for platform deployment.
• Partner with cloud infrastructure teams on networking, identity, and compute.
• Enable data engineering, analytics, and AI teams through reusable platform capabilities.
• Manage platform cost optimization (FinOps) and capacity planning.
• Support regulatory compliance, auditing, and data protection requirements.
• Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Disclaimer: This job description is general in nature and is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in data science, computer science, information systems, or a related field.
• Five (5) years’ work experience in Data Platform Engineering, Cloud DBA, or related field.
• Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting.
• Experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Advanced experience conducting end-to-end analyses, including data gathering and requirements.
• Ability to provide leadership in a general planning or consulting setting.
• Ability to develop and act as a leader of multi-functional project teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to present and communicate effectively to executive audiences.

JOB CONDITIONS:

• Some travel required