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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Systems Programming, or a related discipline—or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• 10+ years of experience building or supporting large-scale cloud data platforms.
• At least seven years of hands-on experience in modern data architecture, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure.
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise data platforms that support multiple teams, business units, or organizations.
• Hands-on experience building cloud infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or an equivalent technology.
• Experience implementing modern DevSecOps practices and integrating security throughout the development lifecycle.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud security controls, including IAM, RBAC, encryption, logging, and auditing.
• Experience collaborating with cloud engineering, cybersecurity, CISO, governance, risk, and compliance teams.
• Experience with modern data and cloud platforms such as: Snowflake Databricks AWS Microsoft Azure Containerized applications and services

Nice To Haves

• Experience building an enterprise platform or shared service from the ground up.
• Strong understanding of reusable architecture patterns and platform-based delivery.
• Experience designing secure multi-tenant platforms.
• Ability to balance strategic architecture with hands-on technical execution.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives through collaboration and influence.
• Experience supporting data analytics, digital services, or AI-ready infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Define the target architecture for the Commonwealth’s enterprise data platform.
• Develop a multiyear platform roadmap aligned with enterprise modernization priorities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies while maintaining architectural consistency and sustainability.
• Establish reusable architecture patterns that can support multiple agencies and technology initiatives.
• Promote API-first and product-based approaches to enterprise information sharing.
• Lead the development of an initial minimum viable product and mature the cloud data platform over time.
• Establish engineering standards, implementation practices, automation, and operational guardrails.
• Design secure, multi-tenant environments that support multiple agencies while addressing data separation and co-mingling concerns.
• Build and operate cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• Implement modern DevSecOps practices, including a shift-left approach to security.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to implement identity and access management, role-based access control, encryption, logging, and auditing capabilities.
• Design shared platform services instead of individual agency-specific implementations.
• Develop repeatable onboarding patterns for agencies adopting enterprise data products and services.
• Support the development of reusable data products and AI-ready infrastructure.
• Ensure alignment across agency modernization and enterprise technology initiatives.
• Create standardized capabilities that can be securely adopted by multiple teams.
• Develop and promote engineering best practices across enterprise data initiatives.
• Collaborate with technology leaders, architects, engineers, security teams, and data teams across the Commonwealth.
• Partner with cloud, integration, governance, and cybersecurity teams to implement enterprise data products.
• Communicate complex technology concepts clearly to both technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Provide technical direction and lead through influence across teams without direct reporting authority.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• PTO