Principal Data Platform Engineer

🕒 January 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $153.1k - $275.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Experian

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1996

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • SaaS

Experian is a global leader in digital experience, technology, and transformation. They partner with recognized brands to enhance customer understanding, innovate product strategies, and implement agile technology solutions. With a focus on delivering superior customer experiences through AI, cloud architecture, and project management, Experian helps businesses streamline their operations and achieve their objectives effectively.

📋 Description

• Lead global teams in design and architecture discussions with partners, developers, and platform engineers • Implement scalable and secure database architectures for enterprise systems across multi-availability-zone, multi-region cloud-native platforms (AWS, and private cloud) • Optimize applications and databases to use the full capabilities and cost efficiencies of AWS cloud-native RDS & EMR platforms • Review, configure, and maintain globally distributed data platforms that are available and scalable • Collaborate with IT, DevOps, and application teams to ensure seamless integration with existing systems • Manage automated operations, deployments, patching, upgrades, and capacity planning through CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools ensuring secure and scalable database operations across multi-cloud environments • Monitor, troubleshoot, and fine-tune database performance to ensure scalability across multi-cloud environments • Implement data protection strategies, including encryption and access controls • Support audit readiness and security reviews • Manage regular maintenance windows to ensure system uptime • Develop enterprise data models and enforce data standards, best practices, and governance frameworks to ensure data integrity and consistency • Research new technologies to enhance database efficiency • Create clear, comprehensive documentation for database designs, configurations, and procedures

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience • 10+ years of overall Enterprise Data Platform Engineering experience, with 6+ years focused on cloud-based open platform database architecture, design, and engineering • Demonstrated expertise in multi-cloud database architecture, design, implementation, and cross-platform migration • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and DevOps automation tools with expertise in CI/CD pipelines and best practices with Terraform and Python skills • Familiarity with data governance and regulatory compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA), along with security best practices • Experience diagnosing and resolving complex database issues • Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes • Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Splunk, Dynatrace, and Database Insights) • Experience with business continuity planning and high-availability architecture design • Demonstrated experience mentoring junior engineers and leading technical teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Great compensation package and bonus plan • Core benefits including medical, dental, vision, and matching 401K • Flexible work environment, ability to work remote, hybrid or in-office • Flexible time off including volunteer time off, vacation, sick and 12-paid holidays