Job Summary:
Artisan Partners is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to join their Data Platform Systems team. The role involves designing, building, and operating platforms that ensure secure access to enterprise data while collaborating with various teams to maintain data availability and reliability.
Responsibilities:
โข Design, implement, and support the platforms that underpin firm-wide data systems, from databases to orchestration to cloud services.
โข Maintain and improve platform availability, performance, security, integrity, usage, and reliability
โข Automate deployment, configuration, monitoring, alerting, validation, and operational workflows
โข Support data integrity, control, reconciliation, lineage, and auditability initiatives
โข Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement durable fixes
โข Improve observability through metrics, logging, alerting, and service health reporting
โข Contribute to data operations efforts, including change management, infrastructure as code, audit/metadata management, and cloud provider usage
โข Document architecture, operational procedures, support models, and technical standards
โข Support incident response, on-call rotation, change management, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning
โข Apply AI thoughtfully to accelerate work while maintaining the judgment, review, and risk controls the environment demands
Qualifications:
Required:
โข 3 -5 years of experience engineering, supporting, and operating enterprise data platforms, infrastructure services, or distributed systems
โข Experience with OLTP/OLAP database management systems (SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQL Server Analysis Services, Snowflake)
โข Experience with enterprise orchestration and general automation best practices
โข Sound judgment and appropriate care when working with production data platforms, including awareness of accuracy, integrity, availability, security, and business impact
โข Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases, data warehouses, or data lake platforms
โข Experience with Python or similar scripting/programming languages
โข Experience with data operations and change management (CI/CD, source control, infrastructure as code, etc.)
โข Understanding of monitoring, logging, alerting, and production support practices
โข Troubleshooting ability across data, application, infrastructure, and integration layers
โข Familiarity with least-privilege security, access control, and secure administration principles
โข Ability to work in a controlled, compliance-sensitive environment with attention to auditability, documentation, and risk management
โข Comfort using AI tools and platforms to improve productivity, quality, and delivery
โข Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Company:
Artisan Partners is a global investment management firm. Founded in 1994, the company is headquartered in Milwaukee, USA, with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.