Data Platform Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

• Design, engineer, implement, configure, and support enterprise database and cloud data platform solutions supporting operational, analytical, reporting, and data integration workloads.
• Partner with Data Architects to translate target-state architectures, technology roadmaps, and modernization initiatives into implementable engineering designs.
• Lead hands-on implementation and support activities across Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Snowflake, Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure, platform configurations, deployment standards, and automation routines to improve platform reliability and scalability.
• Engineer database platform solutions that align with enterprise security, data governance, compliance, and disaster recovery standards.
• Implement and maintain database security controls, authentication methods, RBAC models, service account governance, and audit requirements.
• Design and support highly available and resilient platform architectures including backup, recovery, replication, and business continuity capabilities.
• Provide senior-level troubleshooting and Level 3 support for complex platform incidents, performance issues, and critical production outages.
• Conduct root cause analysis for recurring operational issues and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Partner with the Data Platform Operations team to establish operational runbooks, monitoring standards, and automation opportunities.
• Monitor and optimize database performance, query execution, storage utilization, warehouse consumption, and platform scaling.
• Support analytical platform workloads, reporting environments, Power BI integrations, and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Design and implement automated provisioning, environment refreshes, cloning processes, and administrative workflows.
• Support database deployment pipelines, CI/CD processes, release activities, and production readiness assessments.
• Review solution designs, data models, and engineering approaches to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.

Skills:

• Microsoft SQL Server.
• SQL Server on Azure VM.
• Azure SQL Database.
• Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• PostgreSQL.
• EDB Postgres.
• Oracle databases.
• IBM Netezza.
• Snowflake.
• Azure Data Lake.
• Azure Synapse.
• Microsoft Fabric.
• Power BI.
• ETL/ELT.
• CI/CD.
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• 8+ years of experience in data platform engineering.
• Expertise in Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server on Azure VM, Azure SQL Database, and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
• Proficiency with PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres.
• Experience with Oracle databases and Oracle-based data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with IBM Netezza and Snowflake.
• Knowledge of Azure Data Lake, Azure Synapse, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Experience with infrastructure and platform configurations, deployment standards, and automation routines.
• Familiarity with database security controls, authentication methods, RBAC models, and encryption capabilities.
• Experience with highly available and resilient platform architectures including backup, recovery, replication, and failover.
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