VP Data Engineer, Systems and Data Engineering

Blackstone Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$160,000–$225,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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About Blackstone Inc

Blackstone Inc. operates as a global investment firm specializing in real estate, private equity, credit, infrastructure, and life sciences, focusing on creating long-term value for institutional and individual investors.

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TL;DR · VP Data Engineer, Systems and Data Engineering

Data Engineer, VP - Systems and Data Engineering serves as a senior technical leader within the Systems and Data Engineering team, focusing on the engineering, delivery, reliability, and operational excellence of enterprise data platforms. The role involves providing hands-on expertise in Snowflake to manage platform scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization. Key responsibilities include designing and evolving ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and delivery pipelines while establishing standards for metadata management, lineage, and automated data quality controls. The candidate will drive engineering best practices, lead production incident investigations, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure high availability of business-critical systems. Required skills include extensive experience with ETL/ELT architectures, orchestration frameworks, and infrastructure as code. This role solves complex technical challenges regarding data reliability and observability within a large-scale enterprise environment.

What you'll do

  • Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance for enterprise data engineering initiatives and platforms.
  • Manage Snowflake platform operations including scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization.
  • Design and evolve enterprise data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and delivery pipelines.
  • Establish standards for ETL/ELT development, metadata management, lineage, and automated monitoring.
  • Define and implement automated data quality controls and remediation processes.
  • Lead investigations into production incidents and provide senior escalation support during critical events.
  • Develop and track service level objectives and metrics to measure platform health.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in data engineering, platform engineering, or related disciplines.
  • Significant hands-on experience with Snowflake in large-scale enterprise environments.
  • Deep expertise in ETL/ELT architectures, data integration technologies, orchestration frameworks, and modern data platforms.
  • Experience supporting business-critical production systems operating in a 24x7 environment.
  • Strong background in data quality, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
  • Demonstrated experience influencing engineering organizations through technical leadership rather than direct authority.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field (preferred).
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, DevOps, and platform automation practices (preferred).