Senior Data Platform Leader - Snowflake & Data Pipelines

The Blackstone Group L.P.; Bethpage (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Life insurance

401(k) plan

Discretionary bonuses

Equity eligibility

Job summary

The Blackstone Group L.P. is seeking a Vice President, Data Engineering to lead and advance the enterprise data platforms and Snowflake-based pipelines.

This senior technical contributor role emphasizes engineering standards, reliability, and operational excellence across multiple teams, without direct people management responsibilities. You will partner with stakeholders to translate strategic requirements into scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and guide architectural decisions while

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or related disciplines.
• Significant hands-on Snowflake experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in ETL/ELT architectures, data integration technologies, orchestration frameworks, and modern data platforms.
• Experience supporting business-critical production systems operating in a 24x7 environment.
• Strong background in data quality, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Experience contributing to major incident response efforts and helping drive operational improvements.
• Demonstrated experience influencing engineering organizations through technical leadership rather than direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Contribute as a senior technical leader to enterprise data engineering initiatives.
• Help establish engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices across data platforms and services.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams across BXTI.
• Participate in architectural reviews and help guide key technology decisions related to data platforms and services.
• Partner with technology and business stakeholders to translate strategic requirements into scalable and supportable solutions.
• Lead investigations into Production incidents involving the data platform.
• Contribute technical and operational leadership for Snowflake-based data platforms.
• Support platform scalability, performance, security, resiliency, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Collaborate with various internal teams to ensure alignment with firm standards.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of enterprise data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and delivery platforms.
• Establish standards for ETL/ELT development, metadata management, lineage, observability, and automation.
• Drive adoption of engineering practices that improve reliability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
• Promote reusable frameworks and common services that accelerate delivery and reduce operational risk.
• Help define and champion enterprise data quality standards and controls.
• Drive implementation of automated data validation, monitoring, and remediation processes.
• Partner with technical and business teams to improve lineage, stewardship, consistency, and trust in datasets.
• Establish metrics and reporting to measure data quality and platform effectiveness.
• Provide technical oversight of production support, operational readiness, and platform reliability.
• Contribute to efforts to improve monitoring, alerting, observability, and operational automation.
• Support root cause analysis and remediation activities for significant production incidents.
• Define and track service level objectives, operational metrics, and platform health indicators.
• Participate in the data engineering on-call rotation.
• Help support coverage, escalation procedures, and incident response processes.
• Act as a senior escalation point during critical production events.
• Promote operational excellence through proactive risk management, resilience engineering, and continuous improvement.
• Build strong partnerships across engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, governance, architecture, and business teams.
• Influence technology direction through collaboration, technical expertise, and strong delivery partnership.
• Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to strategic planning, roadmap development, and platform investment decisions.

Skills

Snowflake

Data engineering

ETL/ELT

Data quality

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Information Systems

Tools

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

DevOps

Platform automation

Job description

The Blackstone Group L.P. is seeking a Vice President, Data Engineering to lead and advance the enterprise data platforms and Snowflake-based pipelines.

This senior technical contributor role emphasizes engineering standards, reliability, and operational excellence across multiple teams, without direct people management responsibilities. You will partner with stakeholders to translate strategic requirements into scalable solutions, mentor engineers, and guide architectural decisions while