Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer – Lakehouse & AI

001 The Northern Trust Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 137,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k & Pension

Medical, Dental, Vision

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Northern Trust is seeking a Cloud Data Platform Engineer to design, implement, and operate a scalable cloud-native data platform supporting analytics, AI, and data services on Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, and AWS. The role emphasizes automation, governance, and cost efficiency, with collaboration across architects and product teams.

You will develop reusable platform services, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC modules, while ensuring security, reliability, and self-service capabilities for enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field; 7+ years in data/cloud engineering.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks).
• Proficiency in IaC tooling (Terraform/Azure DevOps).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, operate, and evolve cloud-based data platform services.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and IaC modules for platform provisioning.
• Ensure governance, security, and cost efficiency across data workloads.
• Collaborate with architects, data scientists, and application teams.

Skills

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

SQL

Job description

Northern Trust is seeking a Cloud Data Platform Engineer to design, implement, and operate a scalable cloud-native data platform supporting analytics, AI, and data services on Databricks, Snowflake, Azure, and AWS. The role emphasizes automation, governance, and cost efficiency, with collaboration across architects and product teams.

You will develop reusable platform services, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC modules, while ensuring security, reliability, and self-service capabilities for enterprise