Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform Owner/Admin

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We offer a hybrid work schedule (one week in the office, one week of teleworking) to accommodate the need for flexibility.

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This position does not offer relocation assistance.

Job Summary

We seek a Senior Software Engineer - Informatica Data Catalog and Denodo Virtualization Platforms to serve as Platform Owner, accountable for strategy, lifecycle, health, governance, adoption, and outcomes.

The role delivers reliable, secure, scalable, governed, and cost-effective capabilities aligned with enterprise data strategy.

The Platform Owner partners with architecture, platform owners, engineering, operations, cybersecurity, governance, business teams, vendors, and implementation partners to integrate both platforms into the enterprise data ecosystem.

Architecture sets direction and patterns; solution delivery implements and operates solutions. The Platform Owner remains accountable for platform priorities, lifecycle, health, adoption, and value.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Strategy & Lifecycle Management

• Define platform vision, strategy, lifecycle, and outcomes aligned with enterprise goals and architecture.
• Maintain a multi-year roadmap covering modernization, technical debt, resilience, security, automation, adoption, risks, and dependencies.
• Prioritize investments, simplification, consolidation, and retirement while balancing delivery demand with long-term platform health.

Platform Health & Operational Effectiveness

• Own reliability, availability, scalability, performance, security, resilience, supportability, and cost; monitor service levels, capacity, risk, technical debt, and adoption.
• Establish observability, documentation, support, and escalation models; coordinate upgrades, maintenance, and infrastructure changes.
• Lead incident response and root-cause remediation; improve operations through automation, standardization, and resilience engineering.

Platform Governance, Standards & Guardrails

• Establish cross-functional governance, standards, guardrails, and reusable patterns for onboarding, development, release, operational readiness, and lifecycle management.
• Meet architecture, security, access, compliance, and operational requirements; support audits, remediate risks, and maintain documentation and runbooks.

Vendor, Licensing & Product Management

• Manage vendor and partner relationships, commitments, issues, and escalations.

Enterprise Data Platform Ecosystem

• Partner with architects and Platform Owners to define interoperability, platform boundaries, integration expectations, and coordinated roadmaps.
• Resolve dependencies, architecture gaps, overlaps, and change impacts to reduce duplication and fragmentation.
• Enable reusable integrations that accelerate enterprise data, analytics, governance, and AI delivery.

Informatica Platform Specific Ownership

• Define Informatica data integration and ingestion capabilities and reusable integration patterns.
• Plan Informatica connectivity across cloud, on-premises, databases, APIs, data platforms, and enterprise systems.

Denodo Platform Specific Ownership

• Support architecture to define the enterprise data virtualization strategy.
• Define Denodo logical and semantic models, reusable views, and implementation patterns.
• Govern Denodo source connectivity across enterprise systems, warehouses, lakehouses, and analytics platforms.
• Optimize Denodo queries, workload behavior, and caching.

• Enable governed logical data products through Denodo APIs and reusable data services.

Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Experience

The knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences that are required for entry into this job include the following:-

• 5-6+ years of relevant professional experience in a directly related field.
• Experience owning, leading, operating, governing, or evolving enterprise-scale data platforms and production-support models.
• Experience translating business objectives into platform strategies, roadmaps, capabilities, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience working across architecture, engineering, operations, cybersecurity, governance, and business stakeholders.
• Experience managing platform demand, competing priorities, dependencies, risks, and lifecycle activities.
• Experience establishing platform standards, operating practices, and governance.
• Experience with vendor relationships, roadmaps, licensing decisions, or support escalations.

Technical Skills

Strong working knowledge of:

• Enterprise data platforms and data architecture
• Informatica or comparable integration and governance platforms; data integration and ingestion
• Denodo or comparable data-virtualization technologies
• Cloud and hybrid data ecosystems
• Data warehouse and lakehouse integration patterns
• Metadata, catalog, lineage, and data-quality concepts
• Data governance, access control, enterprise security, and operational controls
• APIs and enterprise integration
• Platform reliability, resilience, performance, capacity, and observability
• CI/CD and modern platform delivery practices

Leadership & Ownership Skills

• Strong sense of end-to-end accountability for platform outcomes.
• Translate platform vision into actionable roadmaps.
• Prioritize investments using business value, risk, technical health, and strategic alignment.
• Influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
• Balance innovation, modernization, stability, cost, and risk with immediate needs and long-term sustainability.
• Resolve systemic issues through durable solutions.

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Build trusted partnerships across architecture, engineering, operations, cybersecurity, governance, and business teams.
• Manage stakeholder expectations, competing demands, dependencies, and priorities.
• Work effectively with vendors and implementation partners.
• Explain roadmap implications, constraints, risks, and investment choices to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Communication, Facilitation & Influence

• Communicate clearly in writing and speech; explain strategy and technical decisions in business terms.
• Facilitate consensus and influence stakeholders across teams and organizational levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ownership or significant technical leadership of Informatica environments.
• Ownership or significant technical leadership of Denodo environments.
• Experience with enterprise-scale data-governance programs.
• Modernization of legacy or hybrid data ecosystems.
• Experience establishing platform operating models.
• Enterprise data-platform cost management or FinOps.
• Experience with enterprise observability and production-support practices.
• Experience integrating multiple enterprise data platforms into a cohesive ecosystem.

Enterprise Ecosystem

• Successful interoperability and reliable upstream and downstream integration of Informatica and Denodo.
• Reduction in unnecessary capability duplication.
• Improved alignment among platform roadmaps.

Short Description

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate combines platform ownership, technical depth, strategic thinking, operational discipline, and strong business acumen.

They:

• Think strategically, execute pragmatically, and own platform outcomes.

• Balance innovation with reliability, security, governance, and operational excellence.

• Build partnerships across architecture, engineering, operations, governance, cybersecurity, and business teams.
• Simplify platforms, improve health, and reduce technical debt.

• Make priorities and trade-offs transparent.
• Establish standards and practices that scale across teams.

• Translate business and departmental objectives into executable roadmaps and measurable results.

• Influence through expertise, credibility, facilitation, and collaboration.

Education Requirements

Education Level:

Degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education:

Bachelor

Preferred Discipline(s): Business Administration, Computer Science, Computer Engineering

Other disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) listed above.

Licenses, Certifications, or Quals Description

Working Conditions

Office Work Environment 76 -100%

Travel Up to 25%

Other Working Conditions

Test Description

No Testing Required

Export Control

Certain positions at Dominion Energy may involve access to information and technology subject to export controls under U.S. law. Compliance with these export controls may result in Dominion Energy limiting its consideration of certain applicants.

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What You'll Get

Expected Hiring Base Salary Range:

$90,900 $118,100

The expected hiring base salary range is the range we anticipate hiring within for this position. The actual salary offered may vary based on factors such as the selected candidate’s qualifications, skills, experience, and work location. This is not intended to represent the full salary range for the position or limit future compensation growth.

At Dominion Energy, we offer excellent plans and programs for employees. Employees are rewarded with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package which includes: health, dental, and vision benefits with coverage for families and domestic partners, vacation, retirement plans including 401k contributions and matches, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, bonus eligibility, sick leave, and disability insurance. To learn more about our benefits, click here: dombenefits.com.

Dominion Energy is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin and/or status as a protected veteran or individual with a disability.

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