Senior Dataiku Platform Engineer

Requirements:

• Extensive hands-on experience administering enterprise Dataiku DSS, including Design and Automation nodes.
• Strong Python skills and experience using Dataiku REST APIs or SDKs for administration and automation.
• Proven experience with Dataiku bundles, Deployer, deployment workflows, and automated promotion across multiple environments.
• Experience managing connections, code environments, plugins, project permissions, and Project Standards.
• Background implementing automated validation, governance controls, and production deployment checks.
• Strong AWS and Snowflake integration skills, including connectivity, authentication, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Linux or Unix administration, scripting, log analysis, production support, and root-cause analysis.
• Understanding of enterprise security, role-based access control, API keys, secrets management, and secure integration practices.
• Ability to lead technical implementations independently and collaborate across infrastructure, security, operations, and business teams.
• Preferred: Experience with HashiCorp Vault, Fortanix, Okta or Active Directory, and identity lifecycle automation.
• Preferred: Experience with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Preferred: Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and release management.
• Preferred: ServiceNow integration and observability tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, or AWS CloudWatch.
• Preferred: Microsoft SharePoint Online certificate-based authentication and integration experience.
• Preferred: Experience with dbt, Snowflake Cortex AI, data lineage, and enterprise data marketplace integration.
• Preferred: Dataiku plugin development, advanced deployment automation, and data quality frameworks.
• Preferred: Experience with Tesseract OCR, parallel processing, or document-processing workloads.

Responsibilities:

• Administer and maintain Dataiku DSS Design and Automation nodes, including connections, code environments, plugins, permissions, and platform settings.
• Plan and lead platform upgrades, support their execution, and improve platform stability and performance.
• Investigate complex platform issues by analyzing logs, identifying root causes, and implementing fixes and hardening measures.
• Develop Python and Dataiku API-based automation to promote projects from Design through Deployer to Automation.
• Automate bundle creation, publishing, deployment, configuration validation, and post-deployment health checks.
• Check connections, code environments, plugin versions, deployment bundles, and Project Standards before releases, blocking releases when critical checks fail.
• Implement governance as code through Project Standards, automated data quality checks, and production-readiness controls.
• Improve automation reliability through structured logging, error handling, credential management, and repeatable execution patterns.
• Automate user, team, connection, and functional-account onboarding and offboarding using Dataiku APIs.
• Support migration to Okta or Active Directory group-based access and automate the removal of obsolete access.
• Integrate HashiCorp Vault for secure API key retrieval and work with Information Security on Fortanix tokenization and field-level encryption.
• Maintain certificate-based authentication for Microsoft SharePoint Online and manage credential rotation.
• Build and maintain Dataiku integrations with Snowflake and AWS for enterprise data products and governed patterns.
• Automate data product deployments, including connection checks, permissions, and post-deployment verification.
• Support integrations with dbt, Snowflake Cortex AI, Dataiku data lineage, and the enterprise Data Exchange marketplace.
• Connect platform monitoring and pipeline failure notifications with ServiceNow to strengthen incident management.
• Automate license reclamation, cleanup of unused projects and scenarios, disabled-user cleanup, and configuration checks.
• Create documentation, operational procedures, and repeatable support practices, including enablement for Finance users.
• Partner with EDO, EuOps, Information Security, Finance, and Snowflake administration teams to deliver platform improvements.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• AWS
• Active Directory
• CI/CD
• CloudWatch
• Dynatrace
• GitHub
• Incident Management
• Support
• Jenkins
• Linux
• Python
• REST
• Security
• ServiceNow
• SharePoint
• Snowflake
• Splunk
• Terraform
• Unix
• dbt
• Cloud
• RBAC

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We are BCforward, a global IT consulting and workforce solutions firm serving Fortune 500 and government clients. Founded in 1998, we have grown into a full-service business solutions provider, with offices and delivery centers across North America and India. We are seeking a Senior Dataiku Platform Engineer to join our team and help deliver reliable, secure, and well-governed platform solutions. This is a contract role based in Cincinnati, Ohio, for two months, with a pay range of $90–$92 per hour. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, opportunities to grow through work with global clients, exposure to advanced technologies and projects, and a supportive, inclusive culture that values innovation and people. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace and consider qualified applicants without regard to protected characteristics.

last updated 43 week of 2026