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From agriculture to energy to weather intelligence, our proprietary Operational Decisioning Platform transforms raw data into decision-grade insights-enabling companies to optimize supply chains, ensure market stability, and safeguard infrastructure against disruption. We don’t follow trends-we set the standard for precision, trust, and operational impact.\nDTN is at an exciting inflection point. Building off a foundation of financial strength, profitability, and industry trust, we’re accelerating growth and expanding our global footprint. Our purpose-built solutions-powered by AI and honed by decades of vertical expertise-are helping some of the world’s most significant enterprises thrive amid operational constraints and uncover new opportunities in a fast-changing world.\nJob Description:\nDTN is seeking an experienced, technically accomplished Lead Platform Engineer to help design, build, and evolve the foundational capabilities of our Operational Decisioning Platform (ODP).\nThe DTN Operational Decisioning Platform is an internal platform that packages cloud infrastructure into purpose-built, higher-level capabilities, enabling our engineers, solutions teams, and customers to build data products, applications, and AI-powered tools without managing the underlying cloud infrastructure themselves.\nAs a Lead Platform Engineer, you will be directly responsible for implementing, operating, and maintaining complex core components across the platform, including developer-facing APIs, software development kits (SDKs), command-line interfaces (CLIs), the framework other teams use to build modules, and managed capabilities running on cloud infrastructure.\nThis is a deeply technical leadership role for an engineer who thrives on challenging distributed-systems problems, including secure cross-account communication, multi-tenant isolation, and creating abstractions that dramatically improve developer productivity. You will own complex systems end-to-end, establish technical direction and engineering standards, and mentor other engineers while partnering with Enterprise Architecture and cross-functional teams.\nWith a significant portion of the platform still in greenfield development, this position offers the opportunity to design foundational systems from first principles while evolving existing capabilities. Lead engineers on this team play a meaningful role in shaping the platform's architecture and standards, with a clear path toward Staff- or Principal-level technical leadership as the platform grows.\nWhat You Will Be Responsible For:\nPlatform Architecture, Technical Design, and Delivery\nLead the technical design, implementation, delivery, operation, and ongoing evolution of complex platform capabilities.\nDefine engineering problems, evaluate architectural alternatives and technical tradeoffs, and propose scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.\nPartner with the Enterprise Architecture team to design and implement foundational platform capabilities.\nOwn complex components end-to-end, from developer-facing interfaces through the underlying cross-account cloud infrastructure that supports them.\nDesign, develop, and maintain developer-facing APIs, SDKs, CLIs, module frameworks, and managed platform services.\nBuild reusable abstractions and platform capabilities that enable other engineering teams to develop data products, applications, and AI-powered solutions without directly managing cloud infrastructure.\nLead the development of greenfield platform capabilities while maintaining and evolving existing systems.\nEstablish architectural patterns and technical approaches that support long-term scalability, reliability, security, and developer productivity.\nDistributed Systems and Cloud Infrastructure\nDesign and build secure distributed systems that operate reliably across isolated AWS accounts and multi-tenant environments.\nDevelop secure cross-account communication mechanisms and infrastructure supporting multi-tenant isolation.\nDesign and implement provisioning and lifecycle automation for cloud-based platform capabilities.\nBuild asynchronous and event-driven processing capabilities, including reliable message handling, retries, backoff strategies, and idempotent operations.\nDevelop service discovery, reconciliation, and health-monitoring 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replay-protection mechanisms.\nDesign and maintain secure identity and access management patterns across cloud accounts and services.\nApply least-privilege access principles and secure multi-tenant isolation practices.\nAnalyze security-related failure modes and potential isolation breaches to strengthen platform resilience.\nEnsure security requirements are integrated into platform architecture, interfaces, infrastructure, and operational practices.\nSDK, API, and Module Framework Development\nLead the development and evolution of the platform's SDKs, APIs, CLIs, and shared module framework.\nDesign reusable capabilities that allow engineering teams to focus on business logic while the platform manages common technical requirements.\nDefine and implement interface contracts, data contracts, and consistent integration patterns.\nDevelop framework functionality supporting authentication, authenticated dispatch, validation, metrics, retries, and reconciliation.\nTranslate repeated engineering requirements into reusable, standardized platform components.\nDesign developer-facing interfaces that promote consistency, maintainability, and productive integration across engineering teams.\nSupport schema-driven interface definitions and validation to improve reliability and interoperability.\nTechnical Leadership, Standards, and Mentorship\nEstablish and guide the team's technical direction, architectural standards, and engineering best practices.\nAuthor and review technical designs and architecture decision records (ADRs) to document important engineering decisions and tradeoffs.\nDefine and maintain interface standards, data contracts, testing expectations, infrastructure-as-code practices, and observability requirements.\nProvide technical leadership through architecture discussions, design reviews, code reviews, and collaborative problem-solving.\nMentor mid-level and earlier-career engineers through technical feedback, pairing, and hands-on guidance.\nRaise engineering quality and team effectiveness by sharing expertise, improving development practices, and helping others build technical judgment.\nContribute to the continuous improvement of engineering processes, development standards, and platform architecture.\nOperational Excellence and Reliability\nOwn the operational reliability and production health of assigned platform components and services.\nInstrument platform services with appropriate metrics, logging, tracing, and observability capabilities.\nDefine and support service-level objectives (SLOs) and operational reliability expectations.\nParticipate in on-call rotations and investigate production incidents involving distributed systems, cross-account interactions, and cloud infrastructure.\nTroubleshoot complex failures and implement improvements that reduce recurring incidents and operational toil.\nMaintain strong build, test, and deployment discipline through continuous integration, automated testing, and reliable release practices.\nApply trunk-based development, infrastructure as code, immutable and pinned releases, least-privilege access, and schema-validated interfaces.\nContinuously improve system resilience, debuggability, operational efficiency, and production stability.\nAI-Assisted Engineering and AI-Enabled Platform Capabilities\nUse modern AI-assisted software development tools, including coding assistants and agentic development technologies, to improve engineering effectiveness.\nApply AI development tools to accelerate software development, technical problem-solving, and engineering productivity.\nDesign and build AI-augmented capabilities within modular platform components.\nIntegrate large language models (LLMs), AI agents, and managed AI services into platform capabilities.\nEvaluate and implement AI-related technologies that expand the functionality and value of DTN's Operational Decisioning Platform.\nWhat You Will Bring to the Position:\nProfessional Experience and Technical 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