Sr. Systems Engineer – AI Platforms

Baker Tilly US; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly US is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to act as the technical architecture authority for platforms, including Alteryx, KNIME, and cloud infrastructure. You will engineer and administer on‑premises and cloud environments, and build production automation in Python and PowerShell while guiding identity and security integration with OpenAI/Claude APIs.

The role partners with security and infrastructure teams, while mentoring peers and adapting to evolving priorities across services.

Qualifications

• Senior engineer with ownership of platform architecture and standards.
• Experience with Alteryx Server and KNIME Server administration.
• Proficient in Python and PowerShell automation.
• Knowledge of OpenAI and Claude API tooling.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical authority for platforms and governance.
• Administer Alteryx/KNIME servers and cloud infra.
• Design integrations, identity, and security tooling.
• Develop automation to reduce manual platform operations.

Skills

Python

PowerShell

Alteryx

KNIME

API integrations

SSO

TLS

Tools

Alteryx Server

KNIME Server

Job description

Overview

Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers - New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.

Overview

Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers - New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP, trading as Baker Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Please discuss the work location status with your Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional to understand the requirements for an opportunity you are exploring. Baker Tilly is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local law. Any unsolicited resumes submitted through our website or to Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, employee e-mail accounts are considered property of Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorized recruitment agency ("search firm") for Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by Baker Tilly's Talent Attraction team, to submit candidates for review via our applicant tracking system.

Job Description

The Senior Systems Engineer serves as the technical architecture authority for the platforms team, owning integration design, security standards, platform governance, and server administration across the Alteryx, KNIME, and cloud infrastructure estate. This hands‑on senior engineering role defines platform standards and reference architectures, engineers and administers on‑premises and cloud platform infrastructure, and builds production automation in Python and PowerShell. The role also owns developer experience and onboarding for LLM tooling, including the OpenAI API and Claude API platforms, provides Tier 2 technical support during U.S. hours for escalated configuration, identity, and integration issues, and serves as the dedicated technical counterpart to the identity, security, networking, and infrastructure teams and to peer engineering teams on shared technical concerns. The role is expected to flex into adjacent areas of the department as priorities evolve, learn new platforms and technologies quickly, and cross‑skill and mentor other associates.

Responsibilities

• (25%) Technical Architecture Authority and Platform Standards: Serve as the technical architecture authority for the platforms team, owning reference architectures, design patterns, environment topology, and platform standards across Alteryx, KNIME, cloud infrastructure, and AI platform services. Review and approve technical designs, integration proposals, and significant configuration changes; evaluate new tools and vendor releases for technical fit, security posture, scalability, and supportability; and maintain architecture decision records. Own platform governance, including environment strategy, naming and tagging standards, technical acceptance criteria, change control, and upgrade, capacity, resiliency, and technical debt planning.
• (20%) Alteryx, KNIME, and Cloud Infrastructure Engineering and Server Administration: Own hands‑on administration and engineering of Alteryx Server and KNIME Server or Business Hub environments, including installation, node and executor configuration, scheduling, workflow deployment pipelines, repository and persistence management, licensing, performance tuning, patching, version upgrades, and platform migrations. Administer the supporting Windows and Linux server estate and cloud infrastructure, covering compute, storage, networking, backup and disaster recovery, monitoring and alerting, certificate management, and capacity and cost optimization.
• (15%) Integration Design, Identity, and Security Engineering: Design and implement platform integrations, including data source connectivity and driver management, API and service-to-service integrations, service account and secrets management, and orchestration across analytics, data, and AI platforms. Own SSO and access architecture, including SAML and OIDC federation, SCIM provisioning, security group architecture and nesting standards, and role-based access control. Define and maintain platform security standards, including hardening baselines, TLS and certificate lifecycle, least-privilege models, vulnerability remediation, and audit logging, in partnership with the security, compliance, and identity teams.
• (15%) Automation, Scripting, and Internal Tooling: Design, write, and maintain production-grade automation in Python and PowerShell to eliminate manual platform operations, including provisioning and deprovisioning, bulk configuration changes, deployment pipelines,