Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KBRA Holdings, LLC is seeking a proactive Lead Full-Stack Platform Engineer to enhance their KFI Data Platform. The role involves driving technical vision, collaborating with stakeholders, and overseeing the architecture of a Snowflake lakehouse while mentoring engineers in a collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Set and drive the technical vision for the team and partner with peer staff/principal engineers to shape direction across adjacent teams (data platform, reporting, internal and external frontends & apps)
- Sit at the table with product and business stakeholders (KBRA Analytics, Bank Product) to translate strategy into a multi-quarter technical roadmap, make build/buy/sunset calls, and own the architectural decisions that come out of them
- Own the architecture of a Snowflake lakehouse ingesting 30+ regulatory and market data sources (FFIEC, FDIC, NCUA, FactSet, Xignite, SEC EDGAR, FRED, etc.) via S3 external tables, Dask-based transforms, and SQS / Mongo change-stream event pipelines
- Design and evolve reusable Terraform modules spanning AWS, Azure, Snowflake, MongoDB Atlas, GitLab, Datadog, etc
- Drive CI/CD, IaC, and acceptance-test (BDD/behave) standards across the team
- Mentor engineers and act as code-owner across IaC, data-lake, and application repos
Skills
- Expert Python (ex/ Flask, Dash, Dask, Pandas)
- Deep experience with AWS (ex. S3, IAM, SQS, Lambda, IRSA)
- Terraform at module-author level
- Advanced SQL and Snowflake (ex. external tables, MVs, performance tuning)
- Experience designing high-throughput ETL over diverse formats (ex. Parquet, JSON, CSV, XML, zipped archives)
- Supporting legacy systems and responding to incidents
- Able to work in a collaborative environment
- Have experience collaborating and communicating with technical and non-technical partners
- Has a sense of ownership and craftsmanship in legacy and green field codebases
- Enjoy helping other developers grow and learn new technologies
- .NET (for cross-team integrations)
- Azure compute/identity/queue services
- MongoDB Atlas
- Datadog APM
- Auth0
- GitLab CI at scale
- Familiarity with Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT for research, data insights, and general productivity
Benefits
- Competitive benefits and paid time off
- Paid family and disability leave
- 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
- Educational and professional development financial assistance
- Employee referral bonus program
Company Overview
Kroll Bond Rating Agency (KBRA) was founded in 2010 to restore trust in credit ratings by introducing higher standards of risk assessment and a commitment to transparency. It was founded in 2010, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is https://www.kbra.com.