Senior Platform Engineer

It's an exciting time to join Fisher Investments; we're investing in the future of our firm's technology and information security. Our business is growing internationally, which emphasizes the need to build an unparalleled team that promotes future global growth through strategic solutions and progress. We are important to supporting our firm's diverse businesses, and we're excited to continue solidifying that foundation as we add more experienced technologists to our Technology team.

We are looking for a Sr. Platform Engineer to design and develop solutions for enterprise data warehouses/data marts and analytics as part of a collection of systems in a large technology ecosystem. You will report to the Application Development Team Leader.

The Opportunity:

As a Sr. Platform Engineer, you will perform design and administration of our Azure data and analytics platform to ensure smooth system operations and be the guide for architectural principles and standards. As a technical expert for our data and analytics ecosystem, you will support Fisher Investments business line reporting teams and Technology Business data delivery teams. This hands-on role will provide direction to other developers of data warehouse workloads and data related projects.

You will help align department-wide solutions to Fisher's enterprise priorities and survey the technology landscape and guide the evolution of current environment to support future capabilities and requirements. You will be a part of the team that plans the technology to ensure capacity and scalability as demand and usage evolves.

The Day-to-Day:

Work with business and technology partners to analyze how the data warehouse, analytics and application will meet our goals

Evaluate all proposed requests to determine fit with data warehouse, analytics and application solution architecture.

Own data warehouse and analytics technical platform on Azure, from implementation to enhancements and ongoing operations

Design, develop and coordinate cloud data and application solutions/projects across diverse groups and areas including enterprise architecture, application development, identity and access management, network and data management

Provide technical direction and guidance to database and application developers

Develop cloud security and access control solution/policy, data and BI standards, guidelines and best practice for business groups and technical teams

Perform maintenance and troubleshooting activities for data warehouse, BI platform and other data projects and resolve issues

Monitor system application logs and identify potential issues and improvements to ensure smooth operations

Perform capacity planning, cloud cost analysis and optimization and provide recommendations to management

Provide after-hour system and application support

Develop multiple work plans for projects and prepare appropriate status reports and submit them to management

Your

Qualifications:

Minimum of 8 years of experience developing software and data solution for enterprise environment focusing on data and cloud applications with direct experience with application development, data warehouse and BI design, implementation, and operation

Experience with cloud data warehouse and analytics technologies, specifically Azure Databricks, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Power BI, and other Azure data solutions

Knowledge or experience with infrastructure (operating system and networking) and cloud administration and automation such as Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.

Knowledge of Dev Ops in application development such as Git Hub Actions, or Powershell

Experience with application development using Microsoft or cloud technologies (such as SQL, Azure, C#, Python)

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