Data Platform Lead: Scale Pipelines & Insights

Penske Truck Leasing Co.; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P. is seeking a Data Platform Engineer/Platform Lead to design, build and operate the data platform behind our fleet and telematics products. You will balance hands-on pipeline development with platform-level decisions on cost, reliability, and scale, collaborating with Data Science and product teams.

The role is based in Reading, PA, Office-first with 4 days in the office. You will influence architecture and data workflows across our transportation and logistics

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering with hands-on ownership of production data pipelines.
• Proficient in Python and PySpark for large-scale data processing.
• Strong SQL skills, including query optimization.
• Hands-on experience with a workflow orchestration tool (e.g., Apache Airflow).
• Experience with a cloud data warehouse (e.g., Snowflake) and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines and orchestration workflows that move data from ingestion through transformation to serving layers.
• Write and optimize SQL and PySpark for large-scale data processing and transformation.
• Tune cloud data warehouse performance and cost as data volume and usage scale.
• Build and maintain data quality checks and pipeline monitoring/alerting to catch issues before they reach downstream consumers.
• Partner with Data Science to support feature engineering and analytics pipelines feeding ML/analytics workloads.
• Collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders to translate business needs into reliable, scalable pipeline design.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement of the data platform.
• Document architecture and pipeline design to support onboarding of new team members.
• Contribute to platform-level decisions on architecture, tooling, and technical direction as the team and data volume scale

Skills

Strong SQL

Python

PySpark

Communication skills

8+ years data engineering

Tools

Airflow

Snowflake

PostgreSQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P. is seeking a Data Platform Engineer/Platform Lead to design, build and operate the data platform behind our fleet and telematics products. You will balance hands-on pipeline development with platform-level decisions on cost, reliability, and scale, collaborating with Data Science and product teams.

The role is based in Reading, PA, Office-first with 4 days in the office. You will influence architecture and data workflows across our transportation and logistics