Senior Data Platform Engineer — Freight Transformation

Templeton & Partners - Innovative & Inclusive Hiring Solutions

Houston (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Part time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Templeton & Partners – Innovative & Inclusive Hiring Solutions seeks a Principal Data Engineer to design and deliver enterprise-scale data platforms within a major Freight Transformation Programme. The role blends strategic leadership with hands-on delivery to enable modern data architecture, data strategy, and scalable solutions across freight, logistics, and voyage management.

The candidate will mentor teams, collaborate with stakeholders, and drive cloud-native, integrated data solutions that

Qualifications

Expert-level SAP, data integration, and orchestration experience.
Hands-on leadership delivering enterprise-scale data platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead design and delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms and end-to-end data solutions.
Define and influence data strategy, architecture standards, and technology roadmaps.
Act as a trusted advisor to business and technical stakeholders.
Drive best practices across data engineering, integration, governance, and platform development.
Design robust data ingestion, transformation, integration, and distribution frameworks.
Lead and support change management, incident management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Drive implementation efficiency, reduce delivery costs, and accelerate value realization.
Mentor and develop engineering teams while contributing to technical communities and centres of excellence.
Deliver technical presentations, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical delivery.