Cloud Platform Engineer

At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron's progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs, we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications, and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,500+, and has 58 offices in 21 countries within key global markets.
The individual will be responsible for designing and engineering Cloud Data platforms. The individual will ensure a high level of customer satisfaction for all Business users of the Data Lake platform. The role designs Data Platform systems that are appropriate for applications, customer needs, and consistent with the overall design of the organization's information systems architecture. Under limited supervision, this job is responsible for the solution engineering and design, provisioning, delivery, service management, and continuous automation of the organization's Data Platform systems. This role is hybrid.
The Role Responsibilities: Develop and deliver data platform and data engineering solutions to ingest and provision automation pipelines to ingest or provision data to or from Cloud platforms.Design, develop and deliver cloud Data Platform solutions and develop/manage automation pipelines to handle Data Platform needs. Practice Infrastructure as code (IaC) to develop automation routines and integration flows to manage the state of the Data Lake platform systems.Facilitate setup of Data Lake platform and enable the platform with required security controls including encryption, masking, and certificate/keys rotation.Collaborate with developers, analysts, and various system administrators to identify system requirements in designing efficient Data Platform solutions and interfaces.Identify and document all system constraints, implications, and consequences of various proposed system changes.Review technical documentation to guide platform users and to assist with the ongoing operation, maintenance, and development of the system. Evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of Platform operations and troubleshoot problems.Deploy, automate, maintain, and manage AWS cloud-based systems across SDLC environments, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of the Data Lake Platform.Manage the governance framework for DB-Services specific to private, hybrid, and public cloud platforms adhering to standards and integration with existing tools.Provide expert level IT technical lead services, including the direction, evaluation, selection, configuration, implementation, and integration of new and existing technologies and tools in a cloud platform.Responsible for development of cloud integrations and data migrations to support operations of Cloud infrastructure, provisioning, and monitoring with IaaS and PaaS models.Partner with Developers and various system administrators to ensure effective implementation of the data pipelines according to the business needs.Collaborate with Business Analysts and Product Managers to identify business requirements in designing efficient data pipelines and interfaces.Implement version management and deployment of data pipelines using Nuveen approved CI/CD methodologies.Participate in all recurring operations meetings to ensure platform-related program governance activities are managed effectively.Self-sufficiently lead the team members in ensuring the platform-related engineering activities are handled effectively.Align and collaborate with other team leads to ensure activities are handled across different time zones.Perform Platform and Data Engineering L3 support.Requirements: You are: Master's or Bachelor's degree in computer science or related discipline.Manage and ensure delivery of project tasks as required.Excellent documentation skills to create and manage design, implementation, and automation-related documentation.Platform engineering and Implementation experience for large scale data solutions with Orchestration, Computation, and storage layers leveraging Hadoop distribution platforms like Cloudera or AWS EMR, Airflow, S3, etc.Extensive experience in designing, engineering, and managing data lake ingestion, validation, transformation, and consumption services leveraging cloud data tools like Spark, EMR, Glue ETL, and Catalog, Snowflake, AWS Services, etc.Experience on implementing solutions with Workflow orchestration/scheduling tools such as Airflow, Autosys, etc.Experience building and using CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure implementations with Terraform, Gitlab, etc.Must have ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks for self.Must have experience working in an agile environment with multiple priorities.Self-reliant and collaborative in handling activities necessary for Platform Engineering Stream.It would be great if you also had: 8+ years of implementing data applications or data platforms with Big Data/Hadoop, Python/Java/Spark full stack, etc.8+ years of experience with ETL/ELT tools such as AWS Glue ETL, etc.5+ years support experience of Big Data technologies in Hadoop ecosystem – MapReduce, Spark, Yarn, Kafka, Pig, HBase, Sqoop, Elastic Search, Kerberos.5+ years experience with Orchestration tools such as Airflow, Autosys, etc.Experience with Jira and Agile methodology is a plus.Experience with understanding DevOps or CI/CD process w.r.t to infrastructure management activities.We can offer you: A highly competitive compensation and benefits package.A multinational organization with 58 offices in 21 countries and the possibility to work abroad.Laptop and a mobile phone.10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays).Maternity & Paternity leave plans.A comprehensive insurance plan including: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region).Retirement savings plans.A higher education certification policy.Commuter benefits (varies by region).Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development.On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.Cutting edge projects at the world's leading tier-one banks, financial institutions, and insurance firms.A flat and approachable organization.A truly diverse, fun-loving, and global work culture.SYNECHRON'S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative 'Same Difference' is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity, and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning, and development programs, and more.
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