Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KBRA Holdings, LLC is seeking a proactive Lead Full-Stack Platform Engineer to enhance their KFI Data Platform. The role involves driving technical vision, collaborating with stakeholders, and overseeing the architecture of a Snowflake lakehouse while mentoring engineers in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Set and drive the technical vision for the team and partner with peer staff/principal engineers to shape direction across adjacent teams (data platform, reporting, internal and external frontends & apps)
• Sit at the table with product and business stakeholders (KBRA Analytics, Bank Product) to translate strategy into a multi-quarter technical roadmap, make build/buy/sunset calls, and own the architectural decisions that come out of them
• Own the architecture of a Snowflake lakehouse ingesting 30+ regulatory and market data sources (FFIEC, FDIC, NCUA, FactSet, Xignite, SEC EDGAR, FRED, etc.) via S3 external tables, Dask-based transforms, and SQS / Mongo change-stream event pipelines
• Design and evolve reusable Terraform modules spanning AWS, Azure, Snowflake, MongoDB Atlas, GitLab, Datadog, etc
• Drive CI/CD, IaC, and acceptance-test (BDD/behave) standards across the team
• Mentor engineers and act as code-owner across IaC, data-lake, and application repos

Skills

• Expert Python (ex/ Flask, Dash, Dask, Pandas)
• Deep experience with AWS (ex. S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda, IRSA)
• Terraform at module-author level
• Advanced SQL and Snowflake (ex. external tables, MVs, performance tuning)
• Experience designing high-throughput ETL over diverse formats (ex. Parquet, JSON, CSV, XML, zipped archives)
• Supporting legacy systems and responding to incidents
• Able to work in a collaborative environment
• Have experience collaborating and communicating with technical and non-technical partners
• Has a sense of ownership and craftsmanship in legacy and green field codebases
• Enjoy helping other developers grow and learn new technologies
• .NET (for cross-team integrations)
• Azure compute/identity/queue services
• MongoDB Atlas
• Datadog APM
• Auth0
• GitLab CI at scale
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT for research, data insights, and general productivity

Benefits

• Competitive benefits and paid time off
• Paid family and disability leave
• 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
• Educational and professional development financial assistance
• Employee referral bonus program

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