Key skills
DatabricksData WarehousingData PipelinesAWSAccess ControlReliabilityStart-up experienceHealth-tech experienceCommunicationAdaptabilityMLETLData EngineeringAnalyticsKafkaKinesis
About this role
Inspiren is a company that offers a connected ecosystem in senior living, combining compassionate care with technology. They are seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to maintain and develop their data infrastructure, ensuring efficient data capabilities across the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with engineering, data science, ML, data engineering, and product analytics teams to understand and shape the future needs of our data platform and infrastructure
- Define, drive, and implement the future live ingestion layer of data into our data platform (e.g. Kafka, Kinesis)
- Define and evolve standards for storage, compute, data management, provenance, and orchestration
- Monitor current and forecast future infrastructure needs and costs based on business requirements
- Implement and manage role-based access management
- Design and implement reusable tooling and frameworks for data consumers (e.g., data quality monitoring frameworks, templated pipelines, foolproof backfilling capabilities)
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in data infrastructure, platform engineering, data engineering, or similar
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with Databricks
- Expertise in modern data warehouse and lakehouse architectures
- Expertise in modern ETL technologies and building and supporting data pipelines at scale
- Familiarity with access control, data governance, and security
- Demonstrated experience of reliability, observability, and monitoring of infrastructure and systems
- Experience building and maintaining data platforms with a wide variety of stakeholders/users with a diversity of technical expertises
- Demonstrated ability to scale cloud-based data workloads, whilst optimizing and monitoring cost
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas clearly
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapting to changing priorities
- AWS experience is a plus
- Start-up experience is a plus
- Health-tech experience is a plus