Platform Engineer - BI Platforms

BI Platform Engineer

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco's success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come first. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

The BI Platform Engineer will be responsible for the successful maintenance and growth of Costco's Business Intelligence environments/technologies. This position will work closely within IT to ensure Costco's BI reporting platforms have stability, resilience and optimal performance. The BI Platform Engineer will work with Costco's Infrastructure and Architecture teams to ensure that best practices for BI solutions are followed for both enterprise and self-service reporting.

Collaborates with delivery pods and Architects to improve production deployments, platform operations, and environment stability.

Manages the platform on an ongoing basis while performing monitoring, patching and support functions.

Leads and conducts code reviews, design reviews, testing, and debugging activities at the application level.

Remediates platform issues and bottlenecks impacting software development activities.

Supports the creation of documentation and artifacts used to describe the mechanisms used for deployment, monitoring and maintenance.

Evaluate and implement industry standards and governance for BI platforms.

Remediates platform issues and bottlenecks impacting software development activities.

Supports the development and execution of integration testing plans as needed.

Supports the authoring and execution of test cases related to support the implementation of platform development work.

Maintains the catalog of services for the platform in collaboration with Architects.

Ensures application and infrastructure architectural solutions are stable, secure, and compliant with company standards and regulatory requirements.

Implements and maintains system configurations and best practices to ensure security standards are met.

Implements service and application monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.

Evaluates and documents all operating systems according to required standards.

Participates in DevOps, Agile, and continuous integration frameworks.

Manages multiple BI Environments across several BI Technologies with an emphasis on Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Looker (additional apps include IBM Cognos, Tableau, Alteryx & Wherescape).

Deploys BI Application reports/packages to all environments utilizing automation including, but not limited to GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipelines.

Works analytically to solve both tactical and strategic problems simultaneously.

Works and troubleshoots BI Support incidents.

Evaluates, understands, and implements patches and environment upgrades.

Ensures environment security and data security follows best practices and industry standards.

Participates in BI Architecture Reviews, BI Environment Tuning, and BI Environment Capacity Planning.

Provides support to the user community using incident, problem management tools, email, and voicemail.

Demonstrate strong technical aptitude in cloud architecture, services, and design concepts.

Required:

3+ years' experience managing production BI environments.

3+ years' experience scripting using PowerShell, Bash, JavaScript, Python, or other language.

3+ years' experience with Power BI platform security setup and capacity management.

3+ years' experience in automation using release pipelines.

3+ years' experience with version control (Git or Azure Repos)

2+ years' experience with Power Platform operating model.

2+ years' experience in creating Power Automate flows.

Ability to install/monitor/update Linux & Windows based BI environments as well as PaaS and SaaS applications.

Experience with Terraform.

Experience with complex multi-server tiered BI environments.

Experience with configuring and maintaining High Availability BI environments.

Experience in effectively implementing a production environment monitoring and support strategy (ping, traceroute, netstat, Dynatrace, Google Cloud Logging, Azure Monitor, Azure Security Center, Log Analytics/Application Insights, Splunk, Sentinel, Power Automate).

Knowledge of BI Platform implementation and security supporting business users across the globe.

Knowledge of Databases (MongoDB, Synapse, Dataverse, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Databricks, Postgresql, Bigquery).

Knowledge of associated industry protocol standards such as: LDAP, DNS, TCP/IP, etc.

Understanding of Enterprise level services - Active Directory, SAML, IDP (Ping preferred).

Security experience including SSL certificates, TLS, hardening, PEN tests, etc.

Able to support off hours work as required including weekends, holidays, and 24/7 on call responsibilities on a rotational basis.

Recommended:

B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent formal training and experience.

Demonstrated ability to lead teams that operate in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment, yet deliver against aggressive deadlines.

Experience with BI SaaS and Mobile Applications.

Experience with Alteryx One

Able to create Power BI reports and dashboards.

Experience with Kubernetes.

Experience with Fabric Data Factory.

Innovative, creative, and possesses a passion for excellence.

Experience in the Retail industry.

Knowledge of sox regulations and ability to set up sox controls and evidence gathering.

Microsoft certifications (Azure, Power Platform, etc.).

Proficient in Google Workspace applications, including Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Gmail.

Required Documents:

Cover Letter

Resume

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Pay Ranges:

Level 1 - $85,000 - $110,000

Level 2 - $105,000 - $135,000

Level 3 - $130,000 - $160,000

Level SR - $150,000 - $190,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

Level STF - $180,000 - $225,000, Bonus and Restricted Stock Unit (RSU) eligible

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, health benefits - medical/dental/vision/hearing aid/pharmacy/behavioral health/employee assistance, health care reimbursement account, dependent care assistance plan, short-term disability and long-term disability insurance, AD&D insurance, life insurance, 401(k), stock purchase plan to eligible employees.

Costco is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Costco is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to IT-Recruiting@costco.com

If hired, you will be required to provide proof of authorization to work in the United States. In some cases, applicants and employees for selected positions will not be sponsored for work authorization, including, but not limited to H1-B visas.