Cloud Engineer, Data Platforms Lead

24 hours ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Northern Trust Corporation Full time
About Northern Trust

Northern Trust is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution with a rich history dating back to 1889. As a Fortune 500 company, we provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world's most successful individuals, families, and institutions.

Job Summary

We are seeking a dynamic Senior Lead Cloud Engineer to support key data platforms, including Snowflake, Databricks, and other data platforms. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of data platforms, handling the design, implementation, and maintenance of data storage and processing solutions to ensure efficient data flow and accessibility.

Responsibilities
  • Optimize and evolve Snowflake's infrastructure and services to ensure reliability, availability, serviceability, performance, and cost efficiency.
  • Design, develop, and unit-test various modules of database product applications primarily on Snowflake but also on Databricks and other data services.
  • Contribute to initiatives aimed at scaling our processes, systems, services, and automation.
  • Build data engineering and data ingestion modules for Snowflake (Relational database).
  • Implement automation for administering Accounts / Databases and access roles.
  • Implement Snowflake standards and methodologies for DB security – both infra and app level.
  • Implement data sharing / replication for cross cloud/cross region for internal/external clients.
  • Implement data encryption/decryption/masking policies to protect PII/PCI data.
  • Propose and implement DB / Snowflake query performance optimizations to manage cost.
  • Build foundational database infrastructure automation to manage traffic and scale.
  • Create data structures and ability to design data models tailored to Snowflake's architecture.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of cloud managed services, particularly, Azure CLI.
  • Knowledge of semi-structured data and Snowflake's approach to data sharing and security.
  • Develop monitoring architecture and implement monitoring agents, dashboards, and alerts.
  • Work with Cloud leadership, Product Management, and Application Teams on requirements.
  • Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) automation (e.g., Terraform) to create IaC patterns and modules to provide acceleration to development end users programmatically.
  • Utilize modern software DevOps and CI/CD tooling, such as GitHub, GitHub Actions, ADO, Jenkins, etc., to provision infrastructure resources and prevent configuration drift.
  • Investigate and resolve complex cloud infrastructure related issues and recommend and develop solutions to issues and create documentation of reengineering processes as required.
  • Participate in IT Service Management (ITSM) change, incident, and general requests for cloud platform support for business as usual (BAU) operations.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical fields.
  • 10+ years of technology experience.
  • 5+ years cloud computing (Microsoft Azure).
  • 3 to 5+ years Snowflake experience.
  • Strong developing skills in Python and associated libraries.
  • Terraform Infrastructure as code (IaC) automation.
Preferred Qualifications

Demonstrate extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success in the following:

  • 5+ years of work experience in Snowflake data platform.
  • 5+ years hands-on experience with Python libraries such as Pandas, flask, Django.
  • Experience with Databricks data platform.
  • Proficiency in scripting languages: Python, Terraform (IaC), SQL, Java.
  • Strong hands-on experience in databases (SQL preferred).
  • Experience with data analytics, PySpark, and Bigdata is added advantage.
  • Strong debugging skills to identify issues and provide solutions.
  • Understanding of data structures, data modelling, and software architecture.
  • Experience creating data architectures and dealing with large volumes of data.
  • Experience using statistical languages to manipulate data and draw insights from data sets.
  • Experience with DevOps, and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub/Actions).
  • Manage large, complex projects from conception to completion with minimal guidance.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, coding skills, and knowledge of SDLC.
  • Proficiency in waterfall and Agile, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc. delivery methodologies.
  • Quick learner and implementing new tools/technologies.
  • Strong analytical skills and experience in statistical techniques.
Working with Us

As a Northern Trust partner, you will be part of a flexible and collaborative work culture in an organization where financial strength and stability is an asset that emboldens us to explore new ideas. We value an inclusive workplace and understand flexibility means different things to different people.

We'd love to learn more about how your interests and experience could be a fit with one of the world's most admired and sustainable companies. Build your career with us and apply today.



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