Gatesfoundation

Gatesfoundation

Lead Platform Engineer

Seattle, WA · Contract

No sponsorship$190k-$295kDetected 5 days ago
PythonPowerShellSnowflakeDatabricksAzureDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPlatform EngineeringGraphQLRESTMachine LearningSparkdbtData EngineeringNLPRAGAgentic AICybersecurityAccessibilitySalesforceAuditingUnity

About the role

  • You translate complex organizational and technical problems into actionable, tactical plans, partnering across service teams and being accountable for outcomes-not just deliverables.
  • In this role, you provide technical leadership across multiple platforms and domains, shape solution strategy, contribute to technical execution and guide engineering excellence across the organization.
  • You influence architectural direction, coach engineering teams, and ensure the overall health, usability, and reliability of the systems entrusted to your stewardship.

Responsibilities

  • Work with business leaders globally to understand business needs, translate requirements to meaningful design artifacts and implement data and AI tooling for Enterprise Data Platform (EDP).
  • Implement Data and AI governance controls, data and platform level security best practices as we continue to build out EDP.
  • Lead platform tools, frameworks and vendor evaluations, guiding build vs. buy decisions and ensuring alignment with enterprise technical direction.
  • Develop and promote engineering standards, reference architectures, and data access design patterns used across IT and partner teams.
  • Develop design patterns for developing and governing data and agentic AI applications on EDP using Databricks foundation models, OpenAI, Claude, Snowflake Cortex etc.
  • Manage and drive improvements of a lightweight custom application (Data Portal) for self-service data cataloging, search and discovery and data sharing with internal and external users.
  • Lead and oversee technical direction for large multi-team delivery efforts, ensuring application of modern engineering and DevSecOps practices through completion.
  • Conduct architectural and technical reviews of solution designs, code, and delivery approaches to raise quality and consistency.
  • You serve as a trusted advisor to IT leadership and business partners, helping translate long-term organizational needs into scalable, secure, sustainable technology capabilities.

Requirements

  • You operate with a high degree of independence, serving as a subject matter expert and acting as a practice lead who contributes to technical execution, builds team capability and mentors engineers.

Nice to have

  • Strong understanding of:
  • RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector databases.
  • Experience with document processing/NLP pipelines (OCR, entity extraction, classification).
  • Collibra data catalog and Data Governance.
  • Deep expertise with cloud-based infrastructure (Azure preferred), networking, identity, security, automation, and cost optimization.
  • Advanced experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, cloud-native operational models, and modern version control strategies.
  • Proficiency with programming and scripting languages such as C#.Net, Python, or PowerShell is desirable.
  • Previous experience with Salesforce would be a plus.

Compensation

  • Provide senior-level input to annual planning, including resource needs, modernization opportunities, risks, and capacity considerations.

Benefits

  • The team's vision is to empower the Foundation with innovative, data and AI driven services and solutions that enable timely, informed decision-making.

Company info

  • Within Business Operations and the Information Technology (IT) organization, the Enterprise Data Solutions (EDS) team leads work across Knowledge Management, AI, Data Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Infrastructure, and Health Data Platforms.
  • As part of this scope, the EDS team recently launched the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) - the central hub for managing, analyzing, and sharing the Foundation's data assets and enabling AI.
  • The Foundation
  • We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Must have unrestricted work authorization in the country where this position is located.
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