Staff Platform Engineer

About the role

At Corient, we help high- and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families to enjoy a full life, while enabling them to preserve their wealth for future generations, and provide for the people, causes and communities they care about. We focus on exceeding expectations, simplifying lives, and establishing legacies that last for generations.

We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you want to work for a company that values your contributions and supports your growth, we would like to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate the enterprise data platform on Azure, including storage, compute, and streaming layers.
• Develop reusable platform frameworks for ingestion, orchestration, and workflow execution.
• Own infrastructure engineering for data systems including compute, storage, and identity integration.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and build CI/CD pipelines.
• Design platform observability, monitoring, and governance frameworks.
• Lead system integration patterns including event-driven and batch architectures.
• Support M&A integration through scalable platform onboarding.
• Partner with analytics and data teams to enable platform usage.
• Provide architectural leadership and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience building and operating cloud-native platforms on Azure (compute, storage, networking).
• Hands-on expertise with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent) and CI/CD automation.
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient systems with defined SLAs/SLOs.
• Experience with system integration patterns (event-driven architectures, APIs, streaming systems).
• Strong understanding of identity, access control, secure platform design (e.g., Entra ID).
• Experience implementing observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) for platforms.
• Proven ability to lead cross-team platform initiatives and define engineering standards.
• Strong communication and stakeholder alignment skills across engineering & data org.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting large-scale data platforms (lakehouse, warehouse, or streaming systems).
• Familiarity with tools such as Databricks, Snowflake, dbt or Fivetran from a platform enablement standpoint.
• Experience in regulated industries (Financial Services, Wealth Management, Healthcare).
• Background in M&A systems integration and onboarding complex environments.
• Experience with multi-region architectures and disaster recovery design.
• Understanding of infrastructure requirements for AI/ML platforms.
• Relevant cloud or infrastructure certifications (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Physical Requirements

This position requires the physical capabilities to work in an office environment, which may include prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

Corient seeks to make reasonable accommodations that enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential duties when possible.

This position may require the ability to lift up to 15 pounds.

This position is required to work onsite 4 days per week.

U.S. Eligibility Requirements

Must be 18 years of age or older.

Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.

For U.S. employment opportunities, Corient hires U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

Exceptions to these requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified candidates with a particular skill.

Corient will require proof of work authorization.

Corient participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

Benefits

Our dedication to the Employee Experience at Corient is aimed at supporting, empowering, and inspiring our talented team through:

• 401(k) Plan with Employer Matching
• Four Medical Plan options that is generously subsidized by Corient
• Employer paid Dental, Vision & Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employer paid Short-term & Long-term Disability
• Paid Maternity & Parental Leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts & Health Savings Accounts
• Dependent Care FSA
• Commuter & Transit FSA
• Corporate Discount Program - Perkspot
• Training Reimbursement
• Paid Professional Designations
• Giving back to the community - Volunteer days