Senior Data Platform Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $105.7k - $149.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Empower

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10,000+ employees

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

👥 B2C

Finance • Fintech • B2C

Empower is a leading provider of financial services focused on helping individuals and organizations achieve financial freedom through retirement planning and investment management. Serving over 19 million Americans, Empower offers a comprehensive suite of finance-related services, including smart planning and investment advice, and tools like the Empower Personal Dashboard™ for a complete financial view. The company is renowned as a top retirement plan provider and works closely with personal investors, workplace plan savers, plan sponsors, and financial professionals. Empower is also recognized for initiatives in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and has a social commitment that bolsters community impact.

📋 Description

• Design and implement data platform solutions including data streaming, CDC, data warehouse, data lake, and ETL/ELT pipelines using modern cloud-based technologies. • Contribute to the development and adoption of best practices for data platform configuration management, observability, testing, and operational readiness. • Build and support end-to-end data integration pipelines from source systems through Kafka and/or Striim to analytical and operational targets. • Participate in engineering design sessions and code reviews for complex data solutions across multiple systems and platforms. • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues related to data platform performance, scalability, and reliability. • Collaborate with architects, platform engineering, security, and governance teams to align solutions with enterprise standards and data strategy. • Support implementation of operational resilience practices, including monitoring, alerting, and data recovery processes. • Evaluate and help adopt new technologies and tools that improve data platform capabilities. • Contribute to documentation, design artifacts, and engineering standards. • Mentor junior and mid-level engineers and support team development.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience. • 6–9+ years of software or data engineering experience. • Strong hands-on experience building and supporting data platforms in production environments. • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation for data platform deployments. • Experience with Oracle, PostgreSQL, Redshift, Snowflake, Kafka (or similar technologies). • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools. • Strong competency in SQL and Python. • Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud architectures, and design patterns. • Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance • Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup • Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year • Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans • Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year • Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year • Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) • Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.