Data Platform Engineering Lead — IaC, 24x7 Ops & Cloud DB

Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Insurance; Sacramento (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work From Home Program

Modernized historical setting

Free Parking

Job summary

Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies is seeking a Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead the enterprise data platform team responsible for performance, reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency. This role oversees relational, NoSQL, and analytical stores and automation via IaC and GitOps within the Autonomous Composable Development model, centered in Sacramento, CA.

The team handles 24x7 operations, incident response, and platform improvement across SQL Server, Azure SQL,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in database administration, data engineering, or data platform operations.
• 5+ years in a team lead or management role with direct people management.
• Hands-on experience across multiple database platforms (SQL Server, Azure SQL, Cosmos, etc.).
• Experience with database redundancy and high availability (Always On, geo-replication).
• Cloud data platform experience (Azure SQL, Fabric, or Databricks) and ETL/ELT.
• IaC and automation tooling (Terraform, Azure DevOps, PowerShell).
• Experience automating database provisioning and schema deployment.
• Familiarity with Claude/LLM tooling for data engineering preferred.
• Knowledge of NYDFS Part 500, SOC audits preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directly supervise database engineers and manage workload and performance reviews.
• Develop depth across relational, NoSQL, and analytical platforms and advance automation and GitOps.
• Manage on-call rotation scheduling and escalation coverage.
• Own operational data stores including OLTP and NoSQL across MS SQL, Cosmos, and equivalents.
• Oversee data transformation with ADF, Airflow, replacing HVR/SSIS.
• Operate analytical data platform (OneLake Bronze/Silver/Gold) to defined standards.
• Define standards for GitOps, IaC provisioning, and lifecycle automation.
• Move team work toward self-service and automate database change management with Liquibase.
• Mentor engineers on Claude/LLM tooling for data lineage, query optimization.
• Monitor and optimize performance with Dynatrace; lead on-call responses.
• Ensure compliance with data classification, PII handling, retention, and audits (NYDFS Part 500, SOC).
• Lead vendor assessments, capacity planning, and cross-team collaboration.
• Communicate trade-offs and risks to leadership; write runbooks and change records.

Skills

Database engineering

Team leadership

SQL Server

Azure SQL

NoSQL

IaC

GitOps

PowerShell

Terraform

Liquibase

Data platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Master’s degree preferred

Microsoft Fabric/DP certifications (DP-600, DP-203, DP-300) or equivalents

Tools

ADF

Airflow

HVR

SSIS

Azure DevOps

Liquibase

Terraform

Databricks

Cosmos

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Mongo

Job description

Berkshire Hathaway Homestate Companies is seeking a Data Platform Engineering Manager to lead the enterprise data platform team responsible for performance, reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency. This role oversees relational, NoSQL, and analytical stores and automation via IaC and GitOps within the Autonomous Composable Development model, centered in Sacramento, CA.

The team handles 24x7 operations, incident response, and platform improvement across SQL Server, Azure SQL,