Platform Engineering Principal

Job summary

The Platform Engineering Principal leads the design, development, integration, and operation of frameworks for data and analytics platforms across private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. The role defines data acquisition and processing patterns, builds repeatable and cost-efficient platforms for BI, AI, and machine-learning applications, establishes access controls, and develops monitoring and alerting with SRE teams to support security, scalability, reliability, and performance.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems.
• At least seven years of experience in platform engineering or a related field; a related advanced degree may offset experience requirements.
• Understanding of the transportation industry, competitors, and evolving technologies.
• Experience conducting end-to-end analysis, including data gathering and requirements definition.
• Experience leading planning or consulting work and cross-functional project teams.
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, and executive communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify data acquisition, processing, and management patterns to guide platform design.
• Architect and build platforms and frameworks for data and analytical products.
• Ensure platform services and solutions are repeatable, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient.
• Develop access controls to secure platform data and compute.
• Build monitoring and alerting systems to detect and resolve platform and hosted-solution failures.

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Relocation