[Remote] Sr Data Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UST is a mission-driven technology company that delivers innovative, human-centered solutions for clients across more than 30 countries. The Sr Data Platform Engineer will help design and execute strategies to consolidate Databricks workspaces or Snowflake accounts, including unifying catalogs and security models, migrating data pipelines and code, and optimizing cloud assets and costs.
Responsibilities
- UST is searching for a Sr Data Platform Engineer who will contribute to the architectural design and execution strategy to merge separate Databricks workspaces or Snowflake accounts into a unified platform
- Metadata & Catalog Unification: Consolidate data catalogs, aligning separate Unity Catalogs or Snowflake Shares into a single, company-wide governance model
- Security & Access Alignment: Audit and merge distinct security models, unifying IAM roles, active directory syncs, and row/column-level access controls
- Pipeline & Code Migration: Refactor and migrate legacy ETL/ELT pipelines, Spark workflows, and orchestration routines to point to the new unified tenant
- Cost & Asset Optimization: Identify overlapping data assets, compute resources, and storage tiers during the merge to optimize cloud spend
- Other relevant essential functions may be required
- Ability to act as a technical lead, mapping out migration schedules and coordinating tasks with the mid-level engineer
Skills
- · Technical Requirements Cloud Infrastructure: Proven experience managing AWS ecosystems (S3, IAM, CloudTrail, VPC, Route53) with an emphasis on cross-account access
- · Data Platform Mastery: Deep expertise in Databricks (workspace administration, Delta Lake, Photon) OR Snowflake (multi-account management, Snowpark, Virtual Warehouses). Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong experience writing Terraform scripts to provision and replicate workspace configurations
- · Development Skills: Python and SQL skills, with experience auditing and refactoring code written by other teams
- · Experience and Qualifications 4-6 years of experience in Data Platform Engineering, or Data Architecture
- · Ability to act as a technical lead, mapping out migration schedules and coordinating tasks with the mid-level engineer
- · Prior experience working on data platform migrations, cloud account consolidations
Benefits
- Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year.
- Full-time, regular employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year, pro-rated for new hires throughout the year.
- 10 paid holidays for full-time, regular employees.
- Paid bereavement leave and jury duty for full-time, regular employees.
- Eligibility for the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching for full-time, regular employees.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for full-time, regular employees and their dependents residing in the US.
- Company-paid basic life insurance for full-time, regular employees.
- Company-paid accidental death and disability insurance for full-time, regular employees.
- Company-paid short- and long-term disability benefits for full-time, regular employees.
- Option for regular employees to purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) participation for regular employees.
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) participation for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines.
- Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year, pro-rated for new hires throughout the year.
- Full-time temporary employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) program with employer matching.
- Full-time temporary employees and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year, pro-rated for new hires throughout the year.
- Part-time employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.
- Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year, pro-rated for new hires throughout the year.
- All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.
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