Data Platform Engineering Leader: Governance & Adoption

Blackstone Technology Group; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackstone Talent Group is hiring a Manager, Data Platform Engineer to lead strategy, governance, and adoption of the organization’s modern data platform. You will drive architecture choices, promote self‑service analytics, and partner across teams to ensure scalable, reliable analytics capabilities.

The role blends platform oversight with hands-on engineering, enabling data products and dashboards across Power BI and Sigma while guiding security, reliability, and cost management in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering, CS, Data Science or Information Systems.
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform leadership.
• 3+ years of experience leading technical teams.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks / Lakehouse architectures.
• Strong familiarity with modern BI and semantic consumption patterns (Power BI, Sigma, or similar).
• Experience managing production data platforms in cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Proven ability to drive platform adoption and organizational change.

Responsibilities

• Platform Strategy & Architecture: Deliver data platform roadmap aligned to business analytics strategy.
• Contribute to architectural decisions on data ingestion, transformation, modeling, Lakehouse, and semantic layers for BI tools.
• Ensure platform scalability, performance, cost optimization, and future-readiness.
• Propose new platform capabilities, tooling, and automation to raise maturity.
• Platform Stability & Operations: Manage reliability, availability, and performance monitoring.
• Establish and manage SLAs/SLOs for data pipelines and analytics workloads; incident management and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with infra/cloud teams on environment strategy and cost visibility.
• Ensure data product readiness and governance for production pipelines.
• Adoption & Enablement: Promote self-service analytics and adoption of the data platform.
• Define standards for data products, dashboards, documentation, and discoverability.
• Lead user enablement programs and analytics governance forums.
• Partner with business teams to identify high-value use cases and accelerate delivery.
• Team Leadership & Delivery: Lead and develop a team of data/analytics engineers and platform specialists.
• Establish delivery frameworks and prioritization processes; promote CI/CD, testing, and observability; adopt product-oriented operating models.
• Collaborate with Data & Analytics leadership to ensure platform investments drive measurable business outcomes.

Skills

Data platform governance

Data engineering leadership

Analytics engineering

Team leadership

Databricks

Lakehouse architecture

Power BI

Sigma analytics

Azure

AWS

GCP

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science or Information systems or equivalent work experience

Tools

Databricks

Power BI

Sigma

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Blackstone Talent Group is hiring a Manager, Data Platform Engineer to lead strategy, governance, and adoption of the organization’s modern data platform. You will drive architecture choices, promote self‑service analytics, and partner across teams to ensure scalable, reliable analytics capabilities.

The role blends platform oversight with hands-on engineering, enabling data products and dashboards across Power BI and Sigma while guiding security, reliability, and cost management in a