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Lead Data Platform Engineer

WorkGenius Group
Plano, TX Contractor
POSTED ON 10/19/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/19/2026
Title: Lead Data Platform Engineer

Industry: Cloud Data & Analytics

Location: Plano, TX

Duration: September 22, 2026 – January 30, 2027

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure and analytics platform services across AWS, Snowflake, Tableau, MicroStrategy, Datameer, and Airflow.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code to automate provisioning, configuration, releases, and reliable deployments.
  • Ensure platform reliability through monitoring, alerting, logging, incident response, on-call support, and performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
  • Implement security, identity management, data protection, compliance controls, access governance, auditability, and operational standards.
  • Provide technical leadership, establish platform standards, automate operational processes, and collaborate with and mentor data engineering, analytics, and cross-functional teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of platform or platform engineering experience.
  • Strong experience administering and supporting Snowflake, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Datameer, and Airflow, along with AWS services including EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, and VPC.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI or Jenkins and infrastructure as code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Python, PySpark, Bash, monitoring and observability tools, networking, security, and cloud architecture principles.
  • Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills; experience with data platforms, secrets management, security and compliance, cloud cost optimization, or MLOps is preferred.

Skills

  • AWS
  • Snowflake
  • Tableau
  • MicroStrategy
  • Datameer
  • Apache Airflow
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD
  • Kubernetes
  • CloudWatch

Hourly rate is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by WorkGenius.

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