Job Title:  Specialist / Sr. Specialist, Platform Engineer

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# 162452 - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team!
 

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About Colgate-Palmolive

Do you want to come to work with a smile and leave with one as well? In between those smiles, your day consists of working in a global organization, continually learning and collaborating, having stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions!

If this is how you see your career, Colgate is the place to be!

Our dependable household brands, dedicated employees, and sustainability commitments make us a company passionate about building a future to smile about for our employees, consumers, and surrounding communities. The pride in our brand fuels a workplace that encourages creative thinking, champions experimentation, and promotes authenticity which has supplied to our enduring success.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile...every single day.

The Experience:

In today's dynamic technology environment, it is an exciting time to join the information technology team at Colgate. Our highly technical and innovative team is dedicated to driving growth for Colgate Palmolive in this ever-changing landscape. 

What role will you play as a member of the Colgate's Information Technology team ? 

Platform Engineer specialist is focused in maintaining/ supporting the data ingestion tools that are used in Colgate for extracting data and taking the complete ownership of these tools. You must be self-directed and comfortable supporting the data needs of multiple teams, systems and products. You will be thrilled by the prospect of working with the best data ingestion tools and do additional automations to fully use the capability of the tools. This team is a group of innovators and technologists that love to learn and collaborate!

What you will do as a Platform Engineer

• Supporting/ Monitoring all the existing data ingestion tools in the organization.

• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, redesigning infrastructure for greater scalability, etc

• Work with partners including the Executive, Product, Data and Design teams to assist with data related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs

•  Collaborate, coordinate, and communicate across teams, departments, and segments

• Create and update  documentation for the purposes of architectural governance and support or the tools that are used

• Assist in educating others on standard processes surrounding data ingestion work (i.e. data modeling, database design, ETL design, job scheduling and monitoring, etc.)

• Ensuring the ideal utilization of the warehouses with respect of cost is looked after for data ingestion tools

• Performs support related activities specific to the platforms supported by the team

• Follows all policies and standards

You are a Platform engineer-
 

• Your role would be to support the various platform for data ingestion and maintaining the standards and regulations
• Document all the practices and procedures 
• You will be the technical matter expert on the data ingestion and provide solutions pertaining to the tools
• Ensure that the data sanity and quality is maintained

You are a function expert -
 

• Your role would be to support the various platform for data ingestion and maintaining the standards and regulations
• Document all the practices and procedures 
• Act like a technical matter expert on the data ingestion and provide solutions pertaining to the tools

You connect the dots -
 

• You would be the one who would be guiding different Analytical engineers about the existing data in the warehouses and also the usage of the same
• You will ensure that there no duplicate data getting ingested into the Warehouse

You are a collaborator -
 

• You would be working closely with Analytical and data engineers to get the data ingested into the warehouse

You are an innovator -
 

• You would be responsible to look out for automations in the data ingestion areas and also ensuring that how different tools could be capitalised to bring betterment in the process of data ingestion.

What you’ll need…(Required)

• Bachelor's Degree or relevant

• Around 3 - 4 years of experience with data ingestion tools and data pipeline support work.

• Working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases

• Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and find opportunities for improvement

• Strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets

• Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management

• A successful history of harmonizing, processing and extracting value from large disconnected datasets

• Experience supporting and working with multi-functional teams in a dynamic environment

What you’ll need…(Preferred)

• Master's Degree Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field a plus

• Experience with data ingestion tools like HVR, SAP  Data Intelligence, SAP BTP solution, Airbyte, other open source ingestion tools.

• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Neo4j, etc

• Experience with cloud services: GCP, AWS, etc

• Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, etc.

• Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc.

• Experience with Data Flow, Data Pipeline and workflow management tools: Cloud Composer, Airflow, Luigi, etc.

Our Commitment to Sustainability
With the Colgate brand in more homes than any other, we are presented with great opportunities and new challenges as we work to integrate sustainability into all aspects of our business and create positive social impact. We are determined to position ourselves for further growth as we act on our 2025 Sustainability & Social Impact Strategy.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve —and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please contact Application_Accommodation@colpal.com with the subject "Accommodation Request" should you require accommodation.

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