Lead Data Platform Engineer

Multi Media LLC is a leader in digital innovation, focusing on creating modern products for the content creator community. They are seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to scale a data platform that processes petabytes of data and support analytics, data science, and machine learning teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and provide ongoing mentorship and support to the data platform team; build a culture that prepares them for high-impact contributions and encourages their professional growth
• Own teams that are responsible for upstream data ingestion and real-time pipelines (e.g., Pub/Sub, event schemas, stream processing), as well as downstream modeling and the semantic layer
• Design, build, and optimize data infrastructure with a strong focus on Snowflake performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Administer and manage Snowflake and other data infrastructure
• Serve as a subject-matter expert and decision-maker for data security, governance, and performance
• Collaborate with analytics, product, and machine learning teams to ensure they have the tools and infrastructure to deliver game-changing data products
• Manage the team’s daily operations
• Set a strategy for the data platform

Requirements:

• Proven hands-on technical leadership experience, leading small data teams while staying deeply involved in building and maintaining reliable data products
• Deep expertise in ETL architecture and infrastructure tools
• Experience building real-time segmentation systems using modern event-driven architectures
• Proven experience with DBT focusing on complex transformations, enforced data testing, and maintaining clean, well-documented data marts
• Excellent knowledge of SQL
• Excellent knowledge of the Snowflake platform
• Expertise in DataOps and security