Principal Data Engineer – CPS DataValidation Platform (OmniShopper & Homescan)

Platform Ownership & Production Leadership

• Own the overall health, reliability, performance, and scalability of the DataValidation platform.

• Serve as the primary engineering escalation point for production incidents and business-critical issues.

• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation activities.

• Drive improvements in observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational excellence.

• Establish and maintain operational KPIs, SLAs, and platform health metrics.

Technical Leadership

• Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for the DataValidation platform.

• Participate to architecture decisions across both on-premise and Azure-based systems.

• Ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and cost-effective.

• Review system designs and provide technical guidance to development teams.

• Balance technical debt reduction with business delivery commitments.

• Act as the engineering lead for strategic OmniShopper initiatives.

• Collaborate with Product Leadership and PMO to define technical solutions supporting business objectives.

• Coordinate execution across multiple engineering and business teams.

• Ensure DataValidation capabilities align with future OmniShopper and Homescan requirements.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Partner closely with:

• Data Science teams

• PMO

• Operations teams

• Product Leadership

• Global Engineering teams

Responsibilities include:

• Translating business requirements into technical solutions.

• Managing technical risks and dependencies.

• Driving prioritization discussions.

• Communicating platform health and roadmap updates to stakeholders.

• Influencing decision-making without direct authority.