Senior Data Platform Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Role Summary

The Senior Data Platform Governance Specialist drives governance excellence, operational discipline, and cost predictability across global data platforms. This role champions a “Governance-as-Code” approach, ensuring that platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, and Cloudera are secure, audit-ready, and optimized by default. The position acts as a bridge between Platform Engineering, FinOps, Security, and Leadership, enabling engineering velocity without compromising enterprise risk standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Governance and Policy-as-Code (“Golden Rules”)
• Define, develop, and maintain “Golden Paths” and global standards for data platform architecture, usage, and compliance.
• Translate written governance policies into automated, executable checks (Governance-as-Code) using GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, ServiceNow, and platform-native security controls.
• Maintain a version‑controlled, audit‑ready repository of governance policies ensuring traceability and seamless compliance for regulated workloads.
• Analytics, Auditing, and Executive Reporting
• Design, build, and deliver monthly Best‑Practice Scorecard Reports to track platform health, cost anomalies, and compliance drift.
• Present actionable compliance, security, and FinOps metrics to senior IT and business leadership, highlighting risks and optimization opportunities.
• Engineering Enablement and Culture
• Conduct training sessions, architectural forums, and 1:1 coaching to upskill data engineers and architects on best practices.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure compliance controls are embedded early in the deployment lifecycle (Shift‑Left).
• Cross‑Functional Alignment
• Serve as the central governance liaison across Platform Engineering, FinOps, Cloud Security, and other teams.
• Ensure platform configurations align with corporate data privacy standards (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA) and industry regulations.

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Platform Expertise: 7+ years of hands‑on experience managing, architecting, or governing at least two major enterprise data platforms (e.g., Cloudera CDP, Snowflake, Databricks, Oracle, SQL Server).
• Cloud Infrastructure: Strong foundational knowledge of AWS and/or Azure infrastructure concepts (compute sizing, storage classes, data transfer/egress economics).
• Regulatory Acumen: Proven experience creating and enforcing technical standards in highly regulated, global enterprises (Pharma, Life Sciences, Healthcare, or Finance preferred).
• Modern Tooling: Hands‑on familiarity with automation and ITSM tools (GitLab CI, Terraform, ServiceNow).
• Frameworks: Solid knowledge of ITIL service management and Policy‑as‑Code concepts.
• Leadership and Influence: Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to drive change without direct authority and push back constructively when needed.

Minimum Education and Certifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Systems Engineering, or related field.
• Highly Preferred Certifications:
  • ITIL 4 Foundation or Managing Professional
  • Platform‑specific certifications (Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/Azure, Cloudera)

IQVIA Core Competencies

• Results Orientation
• Collaboration and Teamwork
• Strategic Problem Solving
• Adapting to Change

Compensation and Benefits

The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is 155 600,00 zł - 289 200,00 zł. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job‑related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part‑time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.