At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?
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Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.
In the role of Lead Data Platform Engineer, we'll count on you to:
- Define and own the data platform roadmap, including target-state architecture, environment strategy, and investment priorities.
- Set standards for platform capabilities, engineering practices, and operational expectations.
- Represent platform strategy in cross-functional forums and executive communications.
- Establish organization-wide IaC standards (modules, state governance, promotion models, change controls).
- Ensure GitOps discipline: required reviews, policy gates, and controlled plan/apply workflows.
- Drive adoption of infrastructure as code as the default operating posture, reducing manual configuration risk.
- Security, Risk, and Compliance Alignment
- Partner with security and governance leadership to align platform controls to enterprise policies and risk posture.
- Ensure RBAC models, tagging/classification, and security policies are consistently implemented.
- Oversee operational readiness for audits and compliance inquiries through documentation and traceability.
- Drive operational excellence: SLO/SLI targets, incident learning, automation, and proactive reliability engineering.
- Champion observability, cost transparency, and platform usability improvements.
- Develop talent through coaching, mentorship, and setting technical standards.
