Platform Data Engineer

About SRS Acquiom 

At SRS Acquiom, our sole focus is on making M&A deals happen more efficiently. Since 2007, we have been continuously innovating to solve issues for some of the industry’s most sophisticated buyers, sellers, and counsel. Our top-tier team has supported more than 3,000 deals including high-profile transactions such as Google’s acquisition of Nest, Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus and Yahoo’s acquisition of Tumblr. We are looking for extraordinary people to help drive our continued success.  If you are looking to join a growing, entrepreneurial environment in an established company, we want to hear from you!  

Position Summary

We are growing our Platform Engineering team and are looking to add a Data Engineer that will be able to help build our internal data platform. This data platform is central to ensure that our software development and data analytics teams have governed access to the data they need. As a Data Engineer on the Platform Team, you will be a part of driving the design, development, and implementation of our data platforms. Your responsibilities include partnering with architect and engineering teams in developing our platform as well as providing best practices and approaches to ensure security, resiliency, and availability of solutions. You will be challenged to create strategies that ensure the secure consumption of the platform through continuous innovation, simplification, and self-service automation.

Primary Responsibilities  

• Participate in all initiatives keeping all compliance, security and regulatory needs satisfied
• Be a thought leader by staying abreast of current and emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Work with your peers to design and build data platform capabilities and incorporate the necessary automations and tool configurations that ensure agile delivery and secure consumption
• Design and implement processes and tools that enable product engineering and BI/Analytics teams to consume an extensible and scalable data platform which enforces all needed governance and consistent operational models
• Be a trusted advisor for initiatives by providing objective, practical, and relevant ideas, insights, and advice while also building organizational partnerships and networks to ensure comprehensive capabilities are developed with input from appropriate business and Engineering resources
• Directly support the use and delivery of data platform services in the organization
• Ensure that all data platform solutions follow established security and compliance controls
• Maintain existing and future software services code and configuration
• Make recommendations for improvements to existing architecture
• Help implement new technologies for future deployment
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfers, and mentorship to clients on their data platform adoption
• Help implement and improve development of data pipelines
• Other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications & Skills 

• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of experience with and strong working knowledge of SQL required and understanding of data models is preferred
• 2+ years of experience with or strong knowledge of Postgresql, MySQL, or other relational database design and programming required: stored procedures, functions, PL/pgSQL a plus
• Experience with or working knowledge of managing AWS Data Infrastructure strongly preferred: S3, RDS, Managed Streaming Kafka, Lake Formation, Glue, Glue Data Catalog, Athena, Quicksight, DataZone
• Experience with systems engineering and/or software development preferred: Java, Javascript, Python, PHP
• Experience with cloud solution design patterns preferred: CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, containers, microservices, distributed caching
• Experience with Terraform scripting is preferred
• Experience with data integrations from third party platforms preferred: Netsuite, Salesforce, Workday, Pendo
• Experience with reporting and analytic tools a plus: Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch, Open Telemetry
• Experience with ETL processes, project, and tooling a plus: Boomi
• Experience with modern API platform design, security practices, and data architectures a plus: event driven architecture, change data capture, pub/sub
• Understanding of systems hardening and secure systems configuration a plus
• Experience with regulatory compliance standards as plus: HIPAA, PCI, SEC. FINRA
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
• Must understand Agile methodologies

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without advanced notice.

With respect to its programs, services, activities, and employment practices, SRS Acquiom Inc.  assesses qualified individuals without regard to their race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or other protected status.  Requests for reasonable accommodation or the provision of auxiliary aids should be directed to Human Resources.