General Motors-posted about 1 month ago
Full-time • Mid Level
Hybrid • Austin, TX
5,001-10,000 employees
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

At General Motors, we're revolutionizing decision-making through cutting-edge business analytics platforms. Our business analytics platform engineering team is at the forefront of this transformation, leveraging the power of Azure and AWS to deliver enterprise-grade solutions that provide insights to everyone across the company. As a Senior Systems Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our data-driven culture. You'll be responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining state-of-the-art analytics platforms including Power BI Premium on Azure Fabric, Tableau Analytics on AWS, and Cognos Analytics on Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) to name a few. This is more than just a technical role - it's an opportunity to drive innovation and empower thousands of users with self-serve capabilities and frictionless experiences. You'll be at the helm of developing these platforms as products, ensuring end-to-end engineering excellence and setting new standards in developer productivity. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the future of business analytics platforms, driving innovation and efficiency in data-driven decision-making across the organization. If you're passionate about cloud technologies, thrive on complex challenges, and want to make a tangible impact on a global scale, we want you on our team. Join us in building the future of business analytics platforms at GM.

  • Design and develop scalable, secure, and reliable analytics platforms on Azure and AWS, leveraging container technologies for efficient application deployment and management.
  • BI platforms administration, management and operations, including data modeling and report authoring best practices using Power BI, Tableau, and Cognos.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, implement GitOps workflows, and establish CI/CD pipelines for platform components and applications.
  • Develop API integration, data extraction, transformation, and loading to Databricks DB SQL
  • Create data source connections and installing data source drivers (JDBC, ODBC)
  • Implement comprehensive DevSecOps practices, including regular security audits and vulnerability mitigation.
  • Establish robust observability solutions, implement disaster recovery and high availability designs to ensure platform reliability.
  • Manage identity and access management, implement security compliance measures including password/token rotations and key vault integration.
  • Implement Gateway connections for accessing on-premises sources, optimizing platform performance and cost-efficiency.
  • Organize resources using a domain-driven approach, implement FinOps practices and resource-level cost chargeback mechanisms.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, demonstrate customer focus, and drive results in ambiguous project scenarios.
  • Implement Policy as Code and Compliance as Code to automate policy enforcement, ensure consistent governance, and compliance with industry standards & regulations.
  • Influence change, naturally accept ownership for project deliverables, explore opportunities to add value to job responsibilities
  • Ability to define and propose innovative solutions to business problems and projects that may begin with ambiguous requirements and requests
  • Self-starter with the ability to influence others, working in teams and independently with leaders and stakeholders across many different organizations within Software and Services
  • Ability to communicate complex concepts in simple and visual terms
  • Effective time management skills to balance workload across multiple simultaneous projects and meet deadlines proactively and independently
  • Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer science or related field
  • 7+ years of experience in platform engineering or similar roles
  • Deep understanding of at least two of the three platforms - Power BI, Tableau, and Cognos analytics platforms
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, container orchestration technologies and cloud operations for business analytics platforms
  • Strong expertise in Azure cloud services, particularly Cognos Analytics on ARO, Azure Kubernetes Service, and PBI service on Azure Fabric
  • Experience with GitOps workflows and tools (e.g., Terraform, ArgoCD)
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, especially Terraform
  • Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD tools, pipelines, and scripting for automation
  • Hands-on programming skills in Python or Scala for API interaction and data processing
  • Ability to work with various data formats (e.g., JSON, YAML)
  • Strong SQL skills with the ability to perform advanced DML operations
  • Familiarity with Databricks Lakehouse ecosystem (e.g., DB SQL, Workflows) and database technologies (PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle)
  • Experience and knowledge on application and platform performance optimization
  • Solid understanding of DevSecOps practices, tools and codifying policies & compliance
  • Experience with OAuth 2.0 and Microsoft Entra (Azure AD)
  • Knowledge of data governance and security best practices
  • Ability to define and propose innovative solutions to business problems and projects that may begin with ambiguous requirements and requests
  • Strong skills in monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
  • Experience with identity and access management in cloud environments
  • Knowledge of FinOps principles and cost optimization strategies
  • Excellent problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills
  • GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.
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