Principal Data Platform Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 21, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026.
About the role
To lead and scale the Data Platform Engineering and Operations function within their Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Data organization. This role ensures the continuous reliability, scalability, and security of their C360 cloud data platform built on AWS, Snowflake, SageMaker, and Datapipe. The incumbent drives operational excellence, automation, and engineering maturity across the platform, while prototyping and rolling out new platform capabilities that enable agility, innovation, and performance for data and AI workloads across the enterprise. Own end-to-end infrastructure and platform operations of the DXP Data Platform across AWS, Snowflake, and SageMaker environments (DEV, SIT, PROD). Lead a blended team of their engineers and partner vendors responsible for platform sustainment and evolution. Partner with Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure & Tooling teams to ensure aligned technical roadmaps, compliance readiness, and audit traceability. Responsibilities Own AWS infrastructure for DXP Data Platform (multi-AZ, multi-VPC setup). Administer Snowflake environments, including user roles, RBAC, performance optimization, warehouse lifecycle, and cost controls. Manage SageMaker environments (Studio, Canvas, Notebooks) for enabling multi-domain ML use cases. Operate DataPipes (EKS + Airflow) for ingestion orchestration, ensuring high availability and version-controlled configurations via IaC (CloudFormation/CDK). Maintain & enhance logging, monitoring, observability & DevOps automation via modern tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, PagerDuty, Slack, ServiceNow, Snowflake observability features. Implement Day 2 platform enhancements including auto-scaling, self-healing workflows, and CI/CD automation.
What you'll bring
Ideal Track Record 6-10 years of experience in cloud and platform engineering, with extensive experience on AWS-based data platforms. Proven leadership of cross-functional engineering teams managing production-grade, multi-environment platforms. AWS Services: VPC, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, KMS, CloudFormation/CDK, Transfer Family, CloudWatch, CloudTrail. Snowflake: administration, RBAC, warehouse optimization, DevOps automation, Cortex AI, and Streamlit integration. EKS / Airflow / Airbyte (Datapipe): container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation. SageMaker: multi-domain setup, pipeline management, Studio/Canvas lifecycle, and MLOps enablement. Experience enforcing ITSec and compliance standards (IAM, KMS, PDPA/GDPR).