Data Platform Engineer Senior Associate
Auxis, Inc.2 months ago
Bogotá, ColombiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable ingestion, orchestration, compute, and storage patterns for enterprise data platforms and analytics products.
- Build and maintain CI/CD for data platform assets and pipeline deployments, including reusable templates and modules.
- Maintain information architecture and environment-management practices for the data platform.
- Drive reliability using monitoring, alerting, SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, automated remediation, and runbooks.
- Implement data quality and data observability patterns and integrate them with enterprise monitoring.
- Embed access, encryption, key management, masking/tokenization, and role-based access control patterns.
- Support user onboarding, respond to and remediate security incidents, and provide evidence for audits.
- Document and review business continuity processes.
- Optimize warehouse, query, data-load, and platform-consumption cost and performance.
- Recommend and deploy schema changes, query tuning, and pipeline optimizations.
- Manage service requests, change requests, incidents, major incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation.
- Prepare weekly operational reports covering requests, incidents, RCA tickets, improvements, and FinOps monitoring.
- Mentor associate engineers and contribute to engineering standards and documentation.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant platform engineering or operational experience.
- Hands-on Snowflake experience is required.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL.
- Experience with ETL/ELT tools and orchestration, including Informatica IDMC and dbt.
- Experience with API-based data ingestion using REST APIs and JSON/XML.
- Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD, information architecture, and environment management for data platforms.
- Strong operational discipline in incident management, problem management, and release/change practices.
- Familiarity with cloud data platforms such as Azure and AWS.
- Understanding of the data lifecycle.
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience with lakehouse or modern warehouse platforms, streaming platforms, and data catalog/lineage.
- Experience with enterprise authentication and authorization patterns, RBAC, and secrets management.
- Exposure to FinOps practices for platform consumption.
- English proficiency at B2+ level and exposure to Agile/Scrum delivery.
About Auxis, Inc.
Auxis is a consulting and tech-enabled nearshore outsourcing firm that builds and operates back-office and IT functions for mid-market and Fortune 1000 clients. Its services span finance and accounting, shared services, IT and cloud operations, cybersecurity, analytics, and automation, delivered through managed services and project-based consulting. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Auxis is a subsidiary of Grant Thornton’s U.S. member firms.