Platform Engineer ? Unified Data Platform (UDP)

Location: Bengaluru, India

Years of Experience: 3-5 Years

Job Summary: The Platform Engineer (UDP) is responsible for designing, building, and operating the core data platform foundations on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that enable trusted data ingestion, analytics, and AI use cases across Prudential Africa. The role ensures the UDP is secure, scalable, observable, and compliant, while providing self-service capabilities to data engineers, analysts, and data scientists across multiple African markets.

Key Responsibilities

UDP Core Platform Engineering

• Design, build, and operate the Unified Data Platform (UDP) infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code and automation first principles on Google Cloud Platform.
• Engineer and maintain standardized data platform components, including:
• Cloud landing zones for data workloads.
• Compute, storage, and networking for data processing.
• Secure connectivity between source systems and the data platform.

• Ensure platform scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency across development, testing,



and production environments.

Data Enablement & Self-Service

• Enable self-service onboarding for data sources, pipelines, and analytics workloads through reusable templates and golden paths.
• Partner with Data Engineers to support:
• Data ingestion pipelines.
• Data quality and validation frameworks.
• Data contracts and metadata integration.

• Provide platform capabilities that support downstream BI, advanced analytics, and AI/ML readiness.

Observability, Reliability & Operations

• Implement end-to-end data and platform observability, including:
• Pipeline health and failures.
• Platform performance and capacity.
• Data freshness and availability indicators.

• Apply SRE practices to the data platform, including SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and post-incident reviews.
• Provide Level-2/3 operational support for UDP platform incidents and escalations.

Security, Governance

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