Principal Engineer - Data Platform Engineer
Toyota North America6 days ago
Plano, TX, USAStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and optimize enterprise analytics platforms supporting Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, Essbase, conversational analytics, AI-assisted insights, and self-service data products.
- Lead development of scalable cloud-centric data lakes, data warehouses, AI/ML workloads, and agentic solutions using Infrastructure as Code.
- Automate provisioning, configuration, governance, and lifecycle management for AWS, Databricks, Denodo, Datadog, and related platform services.
- Build and maintain CI/CD, MLOps, automated testing, release governance, infrastructure automation, and environment management processes.
- Support large-scale data engineering solutions using Apache Spark, Scala, Python, Databricks, and modern ELT/ETL technologies.
- Establish platform architecture, engineering standards, governance frameworks, AI accelerators, and technology roadmaps.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship while promoting reusable platform patterns, automation-first engineering, cloud-native architectures, and operational excellence.
- Implement cloud security controls, platform health checks, monitoring, alerting, resiliency, data-quality validation, performance tuning, cost observability, documentation, and runbooks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or at least seven years of relevant professional experience.
- At least seven years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise data, analytics, cloud, and AI platforms across AWS, Linux, and Windows environments.
- Hands-on experience with administration, observability, monitoring, log management, alerting, and integration platforms including Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx, and Datadog.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code, cloud automation, and platform engineering experience using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK, or similar technologies.
- Experience developing scalable data engineering, analytics, AI/ML, generative AI, and agentic AI solutions using Python, SQL, Spark, Scala, Databricks, and modern ELT/ETL frameworks.
- Knowledge of DevOps, DataOps, MLOps, CI/CD, automated testing, release management, and environment automation using GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, or equivalent platforms.
- Analytical, problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills, including architecture standards definition, engineer mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS or Databricks certifications, enterprise data-platform administration, observability, FinOps, Site Reliability Engineering practices, API or full-stack development with React or Node.js, and knowledge of cloud security, IAM, encryption, resiliency, AI governance, model monitoring, compliance, and performance optimization.
Benefits
- Flexible, respectful, team-oriented work environment.
- Professional growth and career development programs, including tuition reimbursement.
- Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount and Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program where applicable.
- Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for the employee’s family.
- Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan with company match and an annual company retirement contribution where applicable.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- Referral services for prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools, and related needs.
- Tax-advantaged Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, and Dependent Care FSA.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps
About Toyota North America
At Toyota, we’re known for making some of the highest quality vehicles on the road. But there is more to our story. We believe in putting people first and creating opportunities for our team members to build careers as unique as they are. As one of the world’s most admired brands, we are leading the way to the future of mobility, so everyone can move freely, happily and comfortably. We have big dreams and believe that nothing is impossible. Ready to Dream, Do and Grow with us?