Senior Staff Platform Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Hartford, CT
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- At least 6 or more years of solid, diverse work experience in cloud computing, data delivery applications, analytics or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
- At least 3 years of experience providing architectural guidance and technical direction to developers, or platform administrators.
- At least 2 years of experience (or equivalent training/certification) in designing and implementing solutions in AWS and GCP Services.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly, and perform major job responsibilities proficiently within 6-12 months
- Experience in building applications/platforms using agile scrum methodologies
- Strong analytical ability, problem analysis techniques, and broad knowledge of technology alternatives
- Strong communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with business and IT partners
Nice to have
- Experience (or equivalent training/certification) in designing and/or implementing data delivery solutions using Data Integration Tools (Informatica, Talend etc.) and/or Data Platforms (Oracle, Snowfl
Full description
IPB07BE - Senior Staff Platform Engineer - IPB07BE
We’re determined to make a difference and are proud to be an insurance company that goes well beyond coverages and policies. Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals – and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.
The Hartford’s Data Analytics and AI Office (DAIO) – and Data Platform Services (DPS) Team is seeking a Senior Staff Platform Engineer.
The Hartford’s journey to Cloud is a period of immense change – it is a critical part of this role to foster a customer first mindset and focus on work that meets the most needs of Data and Analytics users across The Hartford.
You should be passionate for innovating with new cloud and data platform technologies, designing physical architectures and engineering platform solutions with an emphasis on improving adoption and user experience. This position requires 6+ years of relevant industry, cloud and/or platform experience.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic Collaboration
- As a technical leader you will need to analyze industry trends focused on cloud computing and data platform technologies.
- You will be part of a team of architects working across organizational boundaries advancing DAO technical capabilities.
- Translate these trends into actionable capabilities.
- Current and Target State Architectures:
- Design and Engineer target state platform architectures with reusability in mind.
- Define strategy and roadmaps to guide transformation efforts.
- Create architecture patterns for Cloud Data ecosystems (including AWS Cloud, PySpark, Snowflake, Tableau and ThoughtSpot).
- Customer Collaboration
- Collaborate with internal customers to evaluate needs and provide architectural guidance in utilizing the right products & services for solutions in support of batch/streaming, real-time, near real-time integration/ELT, structuring data for analytic consumption, cloud migrations, and supporting AI.
- Build relationships with internal customers proactively identifying platform and technical needs supporting a business roadmap.
- New Technology evaluations and POCs
- Driving product evaluations, defining scoring criteria, and providing technical recommendations.
- This will be a HANDS-ON role building IaC and Cloud platforms to support POCs of new technologies.
- Hyper-Automation
- Incorporation of DevOps and DataOps practices into suggested solutions to drive increased automation.
- Driving Adoption
- Driving technical road shows to improve adoption of services.