Job Description Are you a seasoned data professional passionate about building cutting-edge cloud data platforms? Publift is seeking a Lead Data Platform Engineer to lead the design, build, and optimization of our modern data platform on Google Cloud. This is a unique opportunity to shape our data strategy and enable scalable analytics, AI, and enterprise data solutions. About the role As a Lead Data Platform Engineer, you will be a key leader in our Data team. You will be responsible for: Architecting and Delivering: Designing and implementing an enterprise-scale cloud data platform using Google Cloud services and modern data architecture patterns (data lakes, lakehouses, modern data stack). Data Pipeline Ownership: Taking full ownership of modern, scalable data pipelines and platforms, ensuring they are high-performing, reliable, secure, and aligned with enterprise standards. Strategic Collaboration: Translating complex business needs into robust data solutions by collaborating closely with key stakeholders. Best Practice Champion: Embedding best practices in data engineering, architecture, and governance across the organization. AI and Data Enablement: Contributing to the design, build, and operation of our enterprise data platform, data source integrations, and data cleaning/governance/compliance tooling. Team Productivity: Enabling decision-making through data and analytics capabilities, and enhancing team productivity with AI and data-enabled tools.
