Staff Platform Engineer

Corient; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan with Employer Matching

Medical plan options

Dental, Vision & Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

FSAs (Medical, Dependent Care)

Commuter Benefits

Training Reimbursement

Professional Designations Support

Volunteer days

Job summary

Corient is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to architect and operate our enterprise data platform on Azure. You will build reusable frameworks for ingestion, orchestration and workflow execution, and own infrastructure for data systems including identity integration.

You will lead by example, implement IaC with Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, and drive observability, governance, and cross-team platform initiatives across engineering and data groups.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in platform, infrastructure, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience building cloud-native platforms on Azure (compute, storage, networking).
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform and CI/CD automation.
• Designing highly available, scalable systems with defined SLAs/SLOs.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, APIs, streaming systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate the enterprise data platform on Azure.
• Develop reusable platform frameworks for ingestion and orchestration.
• Own infrastructure engineering for data systems including compute, storage, and identity integration.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design platform observability, monitoring, and governance frameworks.
• Lead system integration patterns including event-driven and batch architectures.
• Support M&A integration through scalable platform onboarding.
• Partner with analytics and data teams to enable platform usage.
• Provide architectural leadership and mentor engineers.

Skills

Azure platform engineering

Terraform

CI/CD automation

Observability design

Leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Security and IAM (Entra ID)

Event-driven architectures

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

Snowflake

dbt

Fivetran

Job description

Join a team that values your ambition and empowers your growth

At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations. We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you want to work for a company that values your contributions and supports your growth, we would like to meet you.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and operate the enterprise data platform on Azure, including storage, compute, and streaming layers.
• Develop reusable platform frameworks for ingestion, orchestration, and workflow execution.
• Own infrastructure engineering for data systems including compute, storage, and identity integration.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and build CI/CD pipelines.
• Design platform observability, monitoring, and governance frameworks.
• Lead system integration patterns including event-driven and batch architectures.
• Support M&A integration through scalable platform onboarding.
• Partner with analytics and data teams to enable platform usage.
• Provide architectural leadership and mentor engineers.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience building and operating cloud-native platforms on Azure (compute, storage, networking).
• Hands-on expertise with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and CI/CD automation.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient systems with defined SLAs/SLOs.
• Experience with system integration patterns (event-driven architectures, APIs, streaming systems).
• Strong understanding of identity, access control, secure platform design (e.g., Entra ID).
• Experience implementing observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) for platforms.
• Proven ability to lead cross-team platform initiatives and define engineering standards.
• Strong communication and stakeholder alignment skills across engineering & data org.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale data platforms (lakehouse, warehouse, or streaming systems).
• Familiarity with tools such as Databricks, Snowflake, dbt or Fivetran from a platform enablement standpoint.
• Experience in regulated industries (Financial Services, Wealth Management, Healthcare).
• Background in M&A systems integration and onboarding complex environments.
• Experience with multi-region architectures and disaster recovery design.
• Understanding of infrastructure requirements for AI/ML platforms.
• Relevant cloud or infrastructure certifications (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Physical Requirements

• This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.
• This position may require the ability to lift up to 15 pounds.
• This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill. Corient will require proof of work authorization.
• Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or Social Security Administration (SSA) so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.
• Must be willing to execute Corient’s Employee Agreement or Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement, which require, among other things, post-employment obligations relating to non-solicitation, confidentiality, and non-disclosure.

What You Can Expect From Us

• 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching
• Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient
• Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability
• Paid Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
• Dependent Care FSA
• Commuter & Transit FSA
• Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot
• Training Reimbursement
• Paid Professional Designations
• Giving back to the community - Volunteer days

Corient is one of the fastest-growing wealth management platforms in the United States. We have over 40 offices located across the country that serve more than 15,000 clients and manage over $220 billion in client assets. We combine a boutique’s personal service, creativity and objective advice with the extensive resources and vast intellectual capital of an innovative industry leader to create a profoundly different wealth management experience for our clients.

Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honor this commitment in their daily responsibilities.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be recruited and, if applicable, selected and employed without regard to sex, race, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, ancestry, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.

This position description is intended to provide a general overview of the expectations and responsibilities of this position and may not include all tasks that may be assigned. As the nature of business demands change, so may the functions of this position. Additional duties and responsibilities may be assigned with or without notice.

Corient refers to the separate but affiliated entities under common control of Corient Holdings Inc. Client assets include all assets of Corient Holdings Inc., including majority- and minority-owned businesses.