Data Platform Engineering Lead — Cloud Databricks & SRE

ClifyX; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ClifyX is seeking a Data Platform Engineering Lead in Irvine to architect, build, and manage enterprise-scale cloud-native data platforms for Asset Management functions. You will lead platform engineering, infrastructure automation, DevOps enablement, and platform reliability across the Enterprise Data Office.

The ideal candidate brings deep Databricks, dbt, AWS, Terraform, Python, and SRE practices, with experience supporting investment management.

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise-scale Databricks and Airflow for data platforms.
• Strong AWS Cloud, Terraform, and Python skills for platform engineering.
• Asset management domain knowledge is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to design scalable, secure data architectures.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and management of enterprise data platforms.
• Define platform engineering strategy aligned with enterprise standards.
• Establish reusable frameworks and best practices.
• Drive cloud-native modernization across data and analytics.
• Own platform lifecycle, scalability, and reliability.
• Lead Databricks architecture and administration.
• Design Lakehouse using Delta Lake.
• Implement IaC, CI/CD, and GitOps practices.
• Support self-service platform capabilities and governance.

Skills

Databricks

Airflow

AWS Cloud

Terraform

Python

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Data Operations

dbt

Job description

ClifyX is seeking a Data Platform Engineering Lead in Irvine to architect, build, and manage enterprise-scale cloud-native data platforms for Asset Management functions. You will lead platform engineering, infrastructure automation, DevOps enablement, and platform reliability across the Enterprise Data Office.

The ideal candidate brings deep Databricks, dbt, AWS, Terraform, Python, and SRE practices, with experience supporting investment management.