Senior Data Platform Engineer - Remote Data Pipelines

Quest Oracle Community; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision

401(k) with match

Tuition reimbursement

Casual dress code

PTO + holidays

Volunteer time off

Parental leave

BRGs

Job summary

Empower is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and support scalable data platform solutions in a modern cloud environment. You will work with cross-functional teams to implement data integration and platform capabilities while remaining hands-on with development and reviews.

You will mentor junior engineers, contribute to standards, and help ensure operational resilience with monitoring and recovery processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent experience.
• 6–9+ years of software or data engineering experience.
• Production experience building data platforms.
• CI/CD automation for data deployments.
• Experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake, Kafka.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible.
• Strong SQL and Python.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and cloud architectures.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement data platform solutions using cloud tech.
• Develop and adopt best practices for config mgmt, observability, testing, readiness.
• Build and support end-to-end data integration pipelines to targets.
• Participate in design sessions and code reviews for complex data solutions.
• Troubleshoot production issues related to performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with architects, security, governance to align with standards.
• Support monitoring, alerting, and data recovery processes.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies to improve capabilities.
• Contribute to documentation and design artifacts.
• Mentor junior engineers and support team development.

Skills

SQL

Python

Kafka

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Redshift

Snowflake

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Cloud architectures

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Kafka

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Redshift

Snowflake

Job description

Empower is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and support scalable data platform solutions in a modern cloud environment. You will work with cross-functional teams to implement data integration and platform capabilities while remaining hands-on with development and reviews.

You will mentor junior engineers, contribute to standards, and help ensure operational resilience with monitoring and recovery processes.