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Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 17,000+, and has 58 offices in 22 countries within key global markets.\nOur challenge\nWe are seeking an experienced Starburst Platform Engineer to support and expand Wells Fargo's enterprise Data Virtualization platform powered by Starburst on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The successful candidate will be responsible for the end-to-end deployment, administration, optimization, and support of the Starburst platform, enabling business users and engineering teams to access and analyze data across multiple on-premises and cloud data sources through a unified SQL layer. This role requires deep expertise in Starburst Enterprise Platform (SEP), Trino, GCP services, Kubernetes/GKE, data access governance, and customer engagement. The engineer will act as a trusted advisor to data consumers, helping optimize SQL workloads, troubleshoot platform issues, and drive adoption of enterprise data virtualization capabilities.\nAdditional Information*\nThe base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other factors. In accordance with law, the base salary for this role if filled within Charlotte, NC is $110k - $115k/year & benefits (see below).\nThe Role\nResponsibilities:\nPlatform Engineering & Deployment\nDesign, deploy, configure, and maintain Starburst Enterprise Platform (SEP) in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).\nManage Starburst clusters running on GKE, including coordinators, workers, autoscaling, upgrades, patching, and infrastructure optimization.\nConfigure and support integrations with BigQuery, Cloud SQL, GCS, Iceberg catalogs, Teradata, Oracle, SQL databases, and other enterprise data sources.\nImplement platform security, IAM integration, RBAC, authentication, authorization, and governance controls.\nSupport production, non-production, disaster recovery, and business continuity environments.\nSQL Performance Optimization & Query Acceleration\nAnalyze and optimize user SQL workloads for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.\nRecommend best practices for federated queries, joins, partition pruning, caching, materialized views, and semantic layer usage.\nTroubleshoot long-running queries, memory issues, concurrency bottlenecks, and workload management challenges.\nAssist users in tuning analytical workloads and achieving optimal performance across distributed data sources.\nProvide guidance on Starburst SQL features, query execution behavior, and platform capabilities.\nUser Support & Customer Engagement\nServe as the primary technical contact for Starburst platform consumers.\nInvestigate and resolve production incidents, access issues, authentication failures, catalog connectivity problems, and data access concerns.\nCollaborate closely with business stakeholders, analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and application teams.\nConduct onboarding sessions, knowledge transfer workshops, and platform enablement activities.\nGuide customers through query development, troubleshooting, and platform adoption.\nManage support tickets and coordinate escalations with vendors, infrastructure teams, and engineering partners.\nPlatform Operations & Governance\nMonitor platform health, cluster utilization, catalog performance, and operational metrics.\nPerform capacity planning and workload optimization.\nAutomate catalog onboarding, configuration management, and operational processes.\nEnsure compliance with enterprise security, audit, masking, retention, and governance standards.\nParticipate in release planning, change management, and production support activities.\nRequirements:\n7+ years of experience supporting large-scale data platforms and analytics solutions.\n3+ years of hands-on experience with Starburst, Trino, Presto, or distributed SQL engines.\nStrong experience deploying and managing workloads in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).\nExpertise in:\nGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)\nBigQuery\nCloud SQL\nGoogle Cloud Storage (GCS)\nIAM and Security Controls\nCI/CD and Infrastructure Automation\nStrong SQL development and performance tuning skills.\nExperience with Iceberg catalogs, data lake architectures, and federated query platforms.\nKnowledge of distributed query engines, workload management, and cloud-native architectures.\nExperience with Data Virtualization platforms and Data Mesh architectures.\nFamiliarity with Dremio, Dataproc, BigQuery federation, and modern lakehouse technologies.\nKnowledge of Apache Iceberg, Hive Metastore, REST Catalogs, and metadata management.\nExperience supporting enterprise analytics tools such as Tableau, MicroStrategy, ThoughtSpot, or Power BI.\nFinancial services industry experience preferred.\nPreferred, but not required:\nAbility to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nStrong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.\nExperience supporting enterprise customers and managing production incidents.\nAbility to translate business requirements into technical solutions.\nProven ability to mentor users on SQL development and performance optimization.\nWe offer:\nA highly competitive compensation and benefits package.\nA multinational organization with 58 offices in 22 countries and the possibility to work abroad.\n10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays).\nMaternity & paternity leave plans.\nA comprehensive insurance plan including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region).\nRetirement savings plans.\nA higher education certification policy.\nCommuter benefits (varies by region).\nExtensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development.\nOn-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.\nCoaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.\nCutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms.\nA flat 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Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture - promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. 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