Data Platform Engineer III

Position Overview

Regular position, on-site, 5 days per week.

Language Fluency: English (Required)

Work Shift: 1st shift (United States of America)

Responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of scalable data platforms that support big data applications. The role focuses on building reusable data movement frameworks leveraging Informatica Data Engineering Integration on the Cloudera Data Platform, ensuring high performance, fault tolerance, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Defines and operationalizes Data or BI or Content Management, Document composition platforms and enables relevant use cases.
• Develops, maintains, and improves deployment pipelines for the platforms.
• Maintains operational metadata (logs, performance metrics, etc.) for diagnostics.
• Assists in architecture definition and provides solution design for these platforms.
• Creates automated solutions and frameworks to deliver efficiency.
• Build non-functional monitoring capabilities and provide escalated support for highly complex platforms and services in production.
• Build in and maintain security controls and monitoring in support of company standards.
• Analyzes information to determine business needs from requests and implements effective technical solutions, providing problem analysis and resolution in a timely manner.
• Takes a new perspective on existing solutions to solve moderate to high complexity problems and exercises judgment based on analysis of multiple sources of information.
• Leads medium to large data engineering projects with manageable risks and resource requirements; plays significant roles in larger, more complex initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and six to ten years of experience in systems engineering or administration or equivalent education and related training or experience.
• In‑depth knowledge of Linux, Unix, Windows Shell Programming, Python, Git, Networking, Storage Systems, and data/BI/content/document composition platforms.
• Previous experience in planning and managing IT projects.
• Ability to provide direction and mentor less experienced teammates.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree and ten+ years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Knowledge of specific applications, technology platforms, programming languages, systems, or business segments.
• Banking or financial services experience and knowledge of engineering data/BI/content & document composition platforms, platform architecture and design, with strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Professional experience building resilient platforms or services from the ground up and scaling at an enterprise level.
• Experience with Open Source tools and frameworks.
• Experience with cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience using web servers, application containers, caching technologies.
• Experience with build tools like Git, Maven, and Jenkins.
• Proven ability to write comprehensive unit and integration tests.

Benefits

All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax‑preferred savings accounts, and a 401(k) plan. Teammates also receive a minimum of 10 days of vacation and 10 sick days, prorated based on date of hire and full‑time or part‑time status. Full details are available on the company Benefits site. Additional benefits may include a defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and a deferred compensation plan, depending on the position and division.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug‑Free Workplace. EEO is the Law. E-Verify IER Right to Work.