Senior Data & AI Platform Engineer

At Armanino, you determine your career path. This means it's possible to pursue challenges you are passionate about, in industries you care about. Armanino is proud to be among the top 20 Largest Accounting and Consulting Firms in the Nation and one of the Best Places to Work . We have a community of resources that are ready and willing to support your ideas, build your skills and expand your professional network. We want you to integrate all aspects of your life with your career. At Armanino, we know you don't check-out of life when you check-in at work. That's why we've created a unique work environment where your passions, work, and family & friends can overlap. We want to help you achieve growth by giving you access to a network of smart and supportive people, willing to listen to your ideas. This is a senior engineering role. You will architect, operate, and continuously improve cloud data and analytics platforms (e.g., Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks) and own BI delivery infrastructure (e.g., Power BI, Tableau). You set the standards for platform reliability, CI/CD, environment design, security, and governance, and you carry those standards through to production. You work independently, make architecture calls, and own the outcome. Job Responsibilities Platform Architecture & Operations Own the design and day-to-day operation of cloud data platforms: workspace and project architecture, access models, capacity planning, configuration standards, and troubleshooting. Define and enforce platform standards: naming and tagging conventions, access patterns, cost management, and environment separation. Drive platform maturity: identify structural gaps, propose the fix, and implement it without waiting to be told. DevOps & Deployment Design, build, and own CI/CD workflows for data and analytics assets (pipelines, jobs, semantic models, reports), including branching strategy, promotion, approvals, and rollback. Establish reusable templates, checklists, and release documentation that the rest of the team deploys against. Set the deployment bar and hold the team to it through review and automation. Data & Analytics Platform Leadership Serve as the technical authority across a core platform (Fabric, Snowflake, or Databricks) plus a BI tool (Power BI or Tableau), and provide working depth across the others. Lead onboarding and enablement for engineering and client teams: patterns, guardrails, and reusable solutions rather than one-off answers. Own performance: diagnose and resolve query, job, refresh, and capacity issues, and design the platform so they stop recurring. Reliability, Monitoring & Incident Response Own platform reliability. Design monitoring and alerting, set SLOs where they matter, and reduce operational toil. Build and maintain the runbook library (standard operating procedures, known issues, escalation paths) and keep it current. Lead incident response: drive triage, own the resolution, run the post-incident review, and land the preventative fix. Security & Governance Define and enforce least-privilege access and secure secret handling (e.g., Key Vault, secret scopes) across environments. Own data governance in practice: PII handling, row- and column-level security, and environment separation, aligned to firm and client policy. Review the work of other engineers for security and governance before it reaches clients. Requirements Minimum 6 years in data engineering, platform engineering, analytics engineering, or cloud operations, with a track record of owning platforms in production. Minimum 2 years of representative accounting experience, whether implementing accounting systems or working in direct accounting roles. Deep, production-grade command of a cloud data platform: Snowflake (preferred), Microsoft Fabric, or Databricks, with working fluency across the others. Strong command of a BI platform: Power BI or Tableau, including data modeling, security, and refresh architecture. CI/CD ownership: Git, branching and PR discipline, and building pipelines, not just running them. Solid scripting in Python or PowerShell. Advanced troubleshooting: you break down ambiguous problems, gather evidence, decide, and communicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. Strong SQL and performance skills: indexing and partitioning strategy, query plans, and capacity tuning. Working command of cloud fundamentals: identity and access, resource organization, logging, and monitoring. Clear technical writing: runbooks, standards, and architecture documentation others can follow. Relevant certifications (Azure, Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) are a plus. Hands-on AI/ML/GenAI enablement experience (model lifecycle, AI Search, Azure OpenAI integration, or MLOps) is a strong plus. "Armanino" is the brand name under which Armanino LLP and Armanino Advisory LLC, independently owned entities, provide professional services in an alternative practice structure in accordance with law, regulations, and professional standards. Armanino LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services, and Armanino Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities provide tax, advisory, and business consulting services. Armanino Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms. Armanino provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. 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