Senior Data Platform Engineer - Vice President

Key Responsibilities

• Hands-on Technical Leadership & Coaching: Provide technical leadership through direct code contribution, architecture review, and hands-on guidance to junior and mid-level data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning across polyglot environments.
• Drive & Implement Architecture & Design: Directly contribute to and drive the technical design and hands-on development of highly scalable, low-latency, fault-tolerant data pipelines, real-time streaming platforms (e.g., Flink), and microservices architectures.
• Platform Infrastructure & Operations Deep Dive: Actively participate in the strategic planning, setup, enhancement, migration, and operational excellence of critical platform infrastructure, including distributed streaming (Flink) and high-performance caching solutions (Redis).
• Open Source & Emerging Technologies Evaluation: Continuously research, evaluate, and prototype emerging open-source data and streaming technologies, leading their integration into Citi's data platform through direct implementation. This includes evaluating new streaming frameworks and caching solutions.
• Performance & Resilience Optimization: Proactively identify and implement architectural and systemic performance optimizations to ensure optimal efficiency, responsiveness, and resilience across the entire data platform, including Flink and Redis clusters.
• Cross-Functional Technical Collaboration: Collaborate closely with senior technical stakeholders across engineering, data science, and business teams to translate complex technical requirements into robust, high-impact implementations.
• Delivery & Code Quality Assurance: Drive the timely, high-quality, and secure delivery of data platform features, championing agile methodologies, engineering best practices, and ensuring accountability for code quality and robust testing.
• Technical Problem Solving: Act as a primary escalation point for complex technical challenges, providing expert diagnosis and hands-on resolution.
• Operational Flexibility: May occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities to support critical platform operations.

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