Sr. Platform Engineering Lead

Bayer; Chesterfield (MO); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Vision

Dental

Retirement

PTO

Sick leave

etc.

Job summary

Bayer is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineering Lead in Chesterfield, MO to drive design sessions for data processing, storage, and delivery across multi-cloud platforms. You will evaluate new technologies via POCs and mentor a team of data engineers, while ensuring secure, scalable pipelines.

The role emphasizes leadership, collaboration, and hands-on engineering across Kafka, Spark, Airflow, and cloud environments, with occasional travel and the option to telecommute up to two days weekly.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field with 2+ years of experience building ETL pipelines for large datasets.
• Experience optimizing ETL pipelines for performance, security and reliability.
• Hands-on with IaaC and version control for data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead design sessions for data processing, storage & delivery systems.
• Evaluate new technologies via POCs and present results.
• Oversee implementation of data solutions per design docs.
• Mentor junior data engineers and perform code reviews to improve quality.
• Travel up to 5% and telecommute up to 2 days per week from home.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Code reviews

Education

Master’s in Computer Science / Information Systems / Computer Engineering or related field

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Airflow

AWS

GCP

Redshift

BigQuery

SQL

Job description

Sr. Platform Engineering Lead

Location: Chesterfield, MO

Employment Type: Regular

Responsibilities

• Lead design sessions for data processing, storage & delivery solutions
• Initiate & lead evaluation of new technologies including POCs and present results
• Implement data solutions according to design documentation
• Lead code reviews, retrospectives, and functional & integration testing to improve delivery quality
• Mentor & train junior data engineers

Qualifications

• Requires Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or closely-related field and 2 yrs experience using Java, Python, JavaScript, and/or Scala to build scalable ETL pipelines for terabyte-size datasets
• Optimizing performance, reliability & security of ETL pipelines using APIs and encryption tools
• Applying IaaC and version control to data pipelines
• Using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, IAM, AWS, & GCP to develop scalable and secure data pipelines on multi-cloud platforms
• Using Redshift, BigQuery, SQL, UDFs, & stored procedures to build scalable data marts, enable distributed data processing, and enforce secure, least-privilege data access with row/column-level security
• Using cloud monitoring platforms, including AWS CloudWatch & Google Cloud logging, to implement real-time data pipeline alerting systems
• Applying FinOps principles to drive cost efficiency and resource optimization strategies
• Leading & training data engineering teams, including providing technical guidance during code reviews and evaluation of emerging technologies for platform enhancement
• Up to 5% U.S. and international travel required
• Telecommuting permitted from home office location within reasonable commuting distance of Chesterfield, MO up to 2 days per week

Salary

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $192,275.00 to $195,000.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant).

Benefits

• health care
• vision
• dental
• retirement
• PTO
• sick leave
• etc.

Equal Opportunity

Bayer Research & Development Services LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans

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Job Details

Reference Code: 889991

Division: Crop Science

Functional Area: Data Engineering

Location: Chesterfield, MO