Platform Engineer

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number#175364 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!
Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values-Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

As a Platform Engineer on Colgate-Palmolive’s Global Information Technology team, you will report directly to the Director, Global Data Platforms and serve as a key technical owner of our enterprise data platform ecosystem. Sitting at the intersection of modern cloud architecture and data engineering, this role directly impacts how our global business leverages reliable, high-velocity data systems across iconic consumer brands.

Your primary objective will be to design, automate, and maintain a secure, highly performant, and scalable cloud platform that empowers data engineers and data scientists to build enterprise pipelines with speed and reliability.

• Platform Architecture & Core Ownership:
  Design, implement, configure, and maintain enterprise cloud data engineering platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Big Query, Airflow) to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability.
• Automation & Infrastructure-as-Code:
  Develop and maintain automation scripts, IaC, and CI/CD workflows using Python to streamline environment provisioning, platform deployments, and proactive system monitoring.
• Governance, Security & Cost Control:
  Manage user access (RBAC), enforce data security policies, and monitor platform utilization and cloud costs to maintain platform efficiency and compliance.
• Stakeholder Technical Liaison:
  Serve as a technical bridge between core IT/security teams and data engineering end-users, gathering platform requirements, conducting technical workshops, and establishing standardized operating procedures.
• Platform Reliability & Support:
  Provide Tier 2/3 technical support for complex platform-related outages, performance bottlenecks, and configuration issues, collaborating directly with vendors to ensure strict SLA compliance.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience managing, configuring, and supporting enterprise cloud data platforms and services (e.g., Snowflake, Big Query, AWS/GCP data services).

• Strong proficiency in writing automated deployment scripts in Python, writing complex SQL queries, and utilizing Infrastructure-as-Code or CI/CD tools (e.g., Terraform, Git Hub Actions).
• Experience with in the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) or fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry supporting enterprise-scale data teams.
• Hands-on experience with modern workload orchestration and data transformation tools (e.g., Apache Airflow, dbt, Cloud Composer).
• Industry technical certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Data Engineer, GCP Professional Data Engineer, Snowflake Snow Pro Core).
• Strong alignment with Colgate's LIFT principles—demonstrating continuous learning, innovative problem-solving, and collaborative cross-functional technical communication.

Salary Range $86,000.00 - $ USD

Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for…