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We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud / Data Platform Engineer todesign, build, and scale the enterprisedigital productplatformthatwillpower analytics, applications, and AI-driven use cases across the business. This role willown the technical strategy, architecture, and operational outcomesfor the cloud data platform, including real-time and batch ingestion,enterprise data storage (medallion architecture), data governance, security, and platform reliability.
As a key member of theDigitalPlatform team, thisrolewill enable product, analytics, and AI teams to deliver value faster by providingstandardized data models, reusable pipelines, and self-service access to trusted data. The role ensures the platform is scalable, secure, and cost-effective, while supporting critical capabilities such as asset and telemetry processing, data quality, lineage, and integration with machine learning services.
This position is accountable for improving platform reliability, performance and transparency through strong engineering practices, automation, and observability, and for enforcing governance through clear data standards, access controls, and lifecycle management. This role will drive strategic investments in shared data capabilities, prioritize platform enhancements that unlock business value, and ensure the platform evolves in alignment with enterprise architecture and long-term cloud strategy. #LI-IB2
1. Platform Architecture & Roadmap
Own the technical vision and evolution of the enterprise data platform aligned to business and digital strategy.
Define the target architecture for real-time and batch data processing, including Medallion architecture patterns and event-driven pipelines.
Translate platform strategy into quarterly technical objectives, capacity plans, and measurable engineering outcomes.
2. Core Data Platform Capabilities
Design and operate the enterprise data storage using Amazon S3 and Apache Iceberg.
Implement and mature Bronze-Silver-Gold (Medallion) architecture for structured, governed data processing.
Define and maintain reusable building blocks for ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving.
Establish reference implementations for streaming (Lambda/Flink) and batch ETL (Spark/Flink).
3. Enablement & Data Engineering Experience
Provide standardized pipelines, templates, and patterns to enable analytics, applications, and ML teams to consume data efficiently.
Enable self-service access to trusted datasets through Athena/Trino, APIs, and ML pipelines.
Partner with application, edge, and ML teams to ensure seamless integration from telemetry to business-ready data.
4. Reliability, Security & Compliance
Enforce enterprise-grade security and governance using Lake Formation, IAM, and KMS.
Implement data quality, validation, lineage, and observability controls across pipelines.
Design for resilience through robust error handling, reprocessing, and backfill mechanisms.
Establish and maintain automated unit testing for data transformations, schemas, and business logic.
Support System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
5. Performance, Cost & Scalability
Design and Optimize storage, compute, and query performance for cost efficiency and predictable scaling.
Monitor and continuously improve platform throughput, latency, and unit economics (e.g., cost per GB, cost per pipeline).
6. Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
Work closely with edge, application, analytics, and AI teams to translate raw telemetry into trusted business insights.
Partner with architecture, security, and cloud teams to align platform implementation with enterprise standards.
Act as a technical advisor to product and business stakeholders on data platform capabilities and constraints.
8-12+ years of experience in cloud, data engineering, or platform engineering roles, with a proven track record of building and operating scalable data platforms used by multiple teams.
Deep familiarity withMedallionarchitectures, streaming pipelines, and cloud-native data services, with the ability to make pragmatic design and technology choices.
Demonstrable expertise in real-time and batch data processing using technologies such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and event-drivenarchitectures.
Strongknowledgeof data reliability engineering, including data quality, schema evolution, observability, error handling, and reprocessing at scale.
Advanced proficiency in SQL and analytical query engines (Athena / Trino or equivalent) for large-scale data analysis.
Hands-on experience with Amazon S3 and modern table formats such as Apache Iceberg (or Delta Lake).
Solid understanding of cloud security and data governance, including IAM, KMS, and policy-based access control.
Experience with workflow orchestration and automation using tools such as Airflow or Step Functions.
Exposure to industrial IoT, or time-series data environments is highly desirable.
Strong ability to collaborate with application, edge, analytics, and AI teams to translate raw data into business-ready insights.
Demonstrated capability to operate in complex, multi-team environments with an emphasis on standardization, reuse, and continuous improvement.
Bachelor's orMaster's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Certifications: CSM/PSM, A-CSM/PSM II or higher Kanban (KMP), SAFe/SPC or equivalent ICP-ACC/ATF or comparable coaching credentials.
In office either based in Overland Park KS or Cary NC.
10-20% travel expected.
BVH, Inc., its subsidiaries and its affiliated companies, complies with all Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) affirmative action laws and regulations. Black & Veatch does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, color, sex, national origin, marital status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender Identity and expression, disability, veteran status, pregnancy status or other status protected by law.
Black & Veatch is committed to being an employer of choice by creating a valuable work experience that keeps our people engaged, productive, safe and healthy. We offer professionals an array of health and welfare benefits that vary based on their geographic region and employment status. This may include health, life accident and disability insurances, paid time off, financial programs and more. Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.
By valuing diverse voices and perspectives, we cultivate an authentically inclusive environment for professionals and are able to provide innovative and effective solutions for clients.
Black & Veatch (BV) is the largest engineering firm in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Founded in 1915 in Kansas City, Missouri it is now headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas It is a global engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and consulting company specializing in infrastructure development in power, oil and gas, water, telecommunications, government, mining, data centers, smart cities and banking and finance markets
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