Data Platform Lead Engineer

Penske; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Pensk e Digital Products in Reading, PA is seeking a senior Data Platform Engineer/Platform Lead to build and run the data platform powering fleet and telematics products. You will balance hands-on pipeline development with platform-level decisions on cost, reliability, and scale.

You’ll collaborate with Data Science and product teams, design scalable pipelines, and own data quality and governance. This is an office-first role based in Reading, PA, with at least 4 days in the office.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering with hands-on ownership of production data pipelines.
• Strong SQL skills with query optimization.
• Proficient in Python and PySpark for large-scale data processing.
• Hands-on experience with a workflow orchestration tool (e.g., Apache Airflow).
• Experience with a cloud data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake).
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
• Experience with cloud data infrastructure (AWS), including cloud storage and distributed processing (S3, EMR/Spark).
• Strong communication skills; able to explain technical tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and orchestration workflows from ingestion to serving layers.
• Write and optimize SQL and PySpark for large-scale data processing.
• Tune cloud data warehouse performance and cost as data volume scales.
• Build and maintain data quality checks and pipeline monitoring/alerting.
• Partner with Data Science to support feature engineering and analytics pipelines.
• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to translate business needs into pipeline design.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of the data platform.
• Document architecture and pipeline design to onboard new team members.
• Contribute to platform-level decisions on architecture, tooling, and technical direction.

Skills

SQL

Python/PySpark

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

AWS

Data pipelines

Communication

Tools

AIrflow

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

AWS

S3/EMR/Spark

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Pensk e Digital Products in Reading, PA is seeking a senior Data Platform Engineer/Platform Lead to build and run the data platform powering fleet and telematics products. You will balance hands-on pipeline development with platform-level decisions on cost, reliability, and scale.

You’ll collaborate with Data Science and product teams, design scalable pipelines, and own data quality and governance. This is an office-first role based in Reading, PA, with at least 4 days in the office.