Senior Platform Engineer
About The Position
Fisher Investments is seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer to design and develop solutions for enterprise data warehouses/data marts and analytics within a large technology ecosystem. This role is crucial for supporting the firm's growing international business and technological advancements. The engineer will be responsible for the design and administration of the Azure data and analytics platform, ensuring smooth system operations and guiding architectural principles. They will act as a technical expert, supporting business line reporting teams and Technology Business data delivery teams, and providing direction to other developers on data warehouse workloads and data-related projects. The role involves aligning department-wide solutions with enterprise priorities, surveying the technology landscape, and guiding the evolution of the current environment to support future capabilities. Planning for capacity and scalability as demand evolves is also a key aspect of this position.
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of experience developing software and data solution for enterprise environment focusing on data and cloud applications with direct experience with application development, data warehouse and BI design, implementation, and operation
- Experience with cloud data warehouse and analytics technologies, specifically Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Power BI, and other Azure data solutions
- Knowledge or experience with infrastructure (operating system and networking) and cloud administration and automation such as Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
- Knowledge of DevOps in application development such as GitHub Actions, or Powershell
- Experience with application development using Microsoft or cloud technologies (such as SQL, Azure, C#, Python)
- Experience with Machine Learning, MLOps
- Experience with investment management systems and processes
- Experience with Agile methodologies in a cloud, application, database, data warehousing and BI space
- BS or equivalent in Computer Science or related field or a combination of technical skills, cloud, operating system, networking, security, data application, data modeling and BI background
Responsibilities
- Work with business and technology partners to analyze how the data warehouse, analytics and application will meet our goals
- Evaluate all proposed requests to determine fit with data warehouse, analytics and application solution architecture.
- Own data warehouse and analytics technical platform on Azure, from implementation to enhancements and ongoing operations
- Design, develop and coordinate cloud data and application solutions/projects across diverse groups and areas including enterprise architecture, application development, identity and access management, network and data management
- Provide technical direction and guidance to database and application developers
- Develop cloud security and access control solution/policy, data and BI standards, guidelines and best practice for business groups and technical teams
- Perform maintenance and troubleshooting activities for data warehouse, BI platform and other data projects and resolve issues
- Monitor system application logs and identify potential issues and improvements to ensure smooth operations
- Perform capacity planning, cloud cost analysis and optimization and provide recommendations to management
- Provide after-hour system and application support
- Develop multiple work plans for projects and prepare appropriate status reports and submit them to management
Benefits
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents
- A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
- 20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays
- Family Support programs including 8 week Paid Primary Caregiver Leave, $10,000 fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance, and back-up child, adult, and elder care
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
Associate degree
