Senior Data Platform Engineer - Security Analytics

Citibank (Switzerland) AG; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Citibank (Switzerland) AG in Irving, TX is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines and storage backbones for security analytics. You will shape enterprise-grade data platforms powering SOC telemetry at scale.

This deep-architecture role requires hands-on experience with batch and streaming pipelines, data lakes, and modern analytics tools, with strong collaboration across cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, and data science teams.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in data platform architecture and engineering for large-scale data platforms.
• Experience building and operating batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of security telemetry types and SOC/OSINT needs.
• Proven ability to design scalable data lakes/warehouses and governance.
• Hands-on coding in Python/Java/Scala for pipelines; familiarity with CI/CD and IaC.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, high-throughput data pipelines (batch and streaming).
• Develop robust normalization/enrichment for heterogeneous SOC telemetry formats.
• Architect and maintain storage backbones (data lakes/warehouses) for SOC data at scale.
• Build and operate data lake infrastructure balancing cost, performance, retention, and query flexibility.
• Ensure low-latency delivery of data to analytics platforms and downstream systems.

Skills

Data platform architecture

Large-scale data pipelines

Security telemetry

Cross-functional collaboration

CI/CD & IaC

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Cribl

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Airflow

Delta Lake

Iceberg

Snowflake

BigQuery

Redshift

AWS

Azure

GCP

Python

Go

Java

Scala

Job description

Citibank (Switzerland) AG in Irving, TX is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data pipelines and storage backbones for security analytics. You will shape enterprise-grade data platforms powering SOC telemetry at scale.

This deep-architecture role requires hands-on experience with batch and streaming pipelines, data lakes, and modern analytics tools, with strong collaboration across cybersecurity operations, detection engineering, and data science teams.