Sr Software Engineer II

Strategic Mandate

As the Data Platform Lead, you are the technical owner and steward of Nielsens Databricks Lakehouse for Corporate function. You will drive the strategy, architecture, and operational maturity of our Databricks ecosystem end to end - from workspace and Unity Catalog design to cost governance and platform reliability. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and data governance: you will define the guardrails, standards, and reusable patterns that let every engineering and analytics team build confidently on a secure, scalable, and cost-efficient foundation. You will act as the "Platform Authority" for Databricks, ensuring the lakehouse scales with the business while remaining governed, observable, and audit-ready. Critically, you will build an AI-driven data platform - architecting AI-native capabilities (feature stores, vector search, GenAI-ready pipelines) directly into the platform, while also using AI-assisted and agentic engineering practices to build, manage, and scale the platform itself faster and more reliably Qualifications

Core Goals Responsibilities