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Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve-including our employees, customers, shareholders, partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.\nThe ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!\nWe work in a hybrid mode 3+2, with a minimum of 3 days at the office and a maximum of 2 days at the home office.\nWe employ only via an employment contract.\nROLE OVERVIEW\nSolarWinds is hiring a Data Platform Engineer to own BigQuery platform administration, Dataplex-based data security, and end-to-end ELT integrity across the Enterprise Data stack. BigQuery, GCP, and Dataplex are the core depth this role brings, with Fivetran ingestion reliability and pipeline performance as a close second.\nBeyond keeping the platform reliable, this role is also expected to be a source of BigQuery best-practice guidance - helping the wider team get more out of the platform, and driving adoption of new BigQuery and GCP features where they improve performance, cost, or reliability.\nA core expectation is disciplined, auditable access administration: BigQuery and Dataplex govern PII and sensitive data across the platform, so this role's IAM and policy-tag work needs to hold up to governance and compliance scrutiny, done in partnership with the Data Governance and Cloud Security teams on standards.\nWHAT THIS ROLE OWNS\nIngestion reliability - monitoring, triage, and troubleshooting for Fivetran connectors feeding BigQuery.\nBigQuery platform administration - IAM, service accounts, cost and performance management, project/dataset structure.\nBigQuery best practices and feature adoption - advising the team on patterns, performance, and cost, and evaluating new platform features.\nDataplex governance and security - user-level permissions, PII masking, and policy tag administration, executed in partnership with Data Governance (standards) and Cloud Security (access-control policy).\nELT pipeline integrity and performance - making sure data flows correctly and efficiently from ingestion through BigQuery.\nRunbooks and operational hardening across the tools this role manages.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nIngestion & platform administration\nMonitor Fivetran connectors; investigate warnings, failures, delays, and abnormal load behaviour into BigQuery.\nAdminister BigQuery - IAM, service-account patterns, dataset/project structure, cost visibility and optimisation.\nManage the full user lifecycle (onboarding, role changes, offboarding) for BigQuery and Dataplex access.\nBigQuery best practices & feature adoption\nAdvise Data Engineering and Analytics teams on BigQuery best practices - partitioning, clustering, query optimisation, and cost management.\nTrack new BigQuery and GCP platform features and drive adoption where they improve reliability, performance, or cost.\nMaintain internal guidance and documentation on BigQuery patterns and standards for the wider team to follow.\nDataplex governance & security\nAdminister Dataplex policy tags and taxonomies for PII and sensitive-data masking at the column level.\nGrant and audit user-level BigQuery/Dataplex access (Fine-Grained Reader, Masked Reader, and equivalent roles) against least-privilege principles.\nPartner with the Data Governance team, who set PII classification standards and policy-tag taxonomy; this role implements and administers the technical configuration.\nPartner with the Cloud Security team on IAM and access-control standards, ensuring BigQuery/Dataplex configuration aligns with company-wide security policy.\nELT pipeline integrity & performance\nMonitor data integrity and performance end to end, from Fivetran ingestion through BigQuery, catching completeness and freshness issues before they reach downstream consumers.\nMonitor BigQuery job and query performance underlying downstream transformation and reporting, flagging issues to Data Engineering or Business Intelligence when the root cause sits in their layer.\nIncident response & hardening\nAct as primary point of contact for ingestion and BigQuery platform incidents - freshness issues, schema drift, load failures - during business hours; this is not a formal on-call rotation.\nLead root-cause analysis for recurring ingestion/platform issues; convert findings into durable fixes and runbooks.\nCreate and maintain operational documentation - runbooks, escalation paths, and recovery procedures for the tools this role manages.\nREQUIRED EXPERIENCE\nCore platform & tooling (must-have)\nStrong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, especially BigQuery, in a production environment.\nDeep enough BigQuery knowledge to advise others on best practices and evaluate new platform features for adoption, including cost optimisation (partitioning, clustering, slot management).\nHands-on experience with Dataplex - policy tags, taxonomies, PII/column-level masking, and fine-grained IAM roles.\nExperience with GCP IAM, service accounts, and least-privilege access administration.\nComfortable working in a regulated or PII-sensitive data environment (e.g. GDPR, HIPAA, or equivalent), given this role's direct exposure to sensitive-data controls.\nIngestion & reliability\nExperience operating or supporting an ELT ingestion tool such as Fivetran, Airbyte, or CData, with an eye for data integrity and pipeline performance.\nExperience with monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root-cause analysis in a production data environment.\n3+ years in data platform or cloud platform operations roles.\nData fundamentals\nStrong SQL skills; 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