Sr. Platform Engineering Lead
Chesterfield, MO · HybridJob$192–195K/yrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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The Sr. Platform Engineering Lead will lead the design, implementation, and evaluation of data processing, storage, and delivery solutions. The role includes building scalable data pipelines and data marts across multi-cloud platforms, improving pipeline performance, reliability, security, and cost efficiency, and guiding data engineering teams through code reviews, technical direction, and training. Telecommuting is permitted from a home office within reasonable commuting distance of Chesterfield, Missouri, up to two days per week.
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Sr. Platform Engineering Lead – multiple positions open – for Chesterfield, MO to lead design sessions for data processing, storage & delivery solutions; initiate & lead evaluation of new technologies including POCs and present results; implement data solutions according to design documentation; lead code reviews, retrospectives, and functional & integration testing to improve delivery quality; and mentor & train junior data engineers. Requires Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Engineering or closely-related field & 2 yrs experience using Java, Python, JavaScript, and/or Scala to build scalable ETL pipelines for terabyte-size datasets; optimizing performance, reliability & security of ETL pipelines using APIs and encryption tools; applying IaaC and version control to data pipelines; using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, IAM, AWS, & GCP to develop scalable and secure data pipelines on multi-cloud platforms; using Redshift, BigQuery, SQL, UDFs, & stored procedures to build scalable data marts, enable distributed data processing, and enforce secure, least-privilege data access with row/column-level security; using cloud monitoring platforms, including AWS CloudWatch & Google Cloud logging, to implement real-time data pipeline alerting systems; applying FinOps principles to drive cost efficiency and resource optimization strategies; and leading & training data engineering teams, including providing technical guidance during code reviews and evaluation of emerging technologies for platform enhancement. Will also accept a Bachelor’s degree in stated fields with 5 yrs progressive, post-Bachelor’s stated exp. Up to 5% U.S. and int’l travel req’d. Telecommuting permitted from home office location within reasonable commuting distance of Chesterfield, MO up to 2 days per week. Salary Range: Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $192,275.00 to $195,000.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. The offered salary may vary within this range based on an applicant’s location, market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors. Mail resume to Cascinda Fischbeck, Bayer Research and Development Services LLC, 800 N. Lindbergh Blvd., E2NE, St. Louis, MO 63167 or email resume to [email protected] . Include reference code below with resume.
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Division: Crop Science Reference Code 889991
Functional Area: Data Engineering Location: Chesterfield, MO
Employment Type: Regular Position Grade:
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How this job compares
Set against the 2,845 open Data Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$192–195K/yr
- Missouri median$106–208K/yr44 salary ranges
- US median$124–210K/yr2,304 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $194K, is 23% above the Missouri median midpoint ($158K) — in the top quarter of Data Engineering salary ranges in Missouri.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 48 open Data Engineering jobs in Missouri and 2,845 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Data Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,422 postings).
- Education
- 1,009 of the 2,845 open Data Engineering jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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