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# Manager, Data Platform Engineering at Strata Decision Technology

- **Company:** Strata Decision Technology
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stratacareers/jobs/8020370003

## Job description

How you’ll make an impact:

As the Manager of Data Platform Engineering, you will lead the platforms that power our data and analytics capabilities, with Snowflake at the center. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will lead a small team while personally designing, automating, operating, and troubleshooting critical platform components. You will own Snowflake architecture and operations across security, governance, administration, reliability, performance, and cost, while providing operational oversight for PostgreSQL.

Own and Evolve the Data Platform

- Own Snowflake architecture, roadmap, administration, and engineering standards.
- Configure and operate Snowflake compute, storage, networking, integrations, and platform services.
- Create reusable patterns, automation, and guardrails that enable teams to deliver safely and efficiently.
- Oversee AWS RDS PostgreSQL configuration, security, backup, and recovery for product applications.

Strengthen Security, Governance, and Access

- Design and automate least-privilege security and access controls, including RBAC, service identities, credentials, privileged access, and the access lifecycle.
- Improve access-management tools, including Satori and internal solutions.
- Partner with Security and Infrastructure to align Snowflake and PostgreSQL with enterprise requirements.
- Improve auditability of platform access, administrative activity, and policy compliance.

Drive Performance and Cost Efficiency

- Own Snowflake performance and cost management, optimizing warehouse sizing, workloads, concurrency, storage, and configuration.
- Diagnose complex query and workload performance issues with engineering teams.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, resource controls, cost attribution, and platform health metrics.

Build Automation and Engineering Practices

- Use Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, to make platform configuration repeatable, reviewable, and auditable.
- Build automation with SQL, Python, and APIs to reduce manual administration and improve reliability and self-service.
- Maintain Git-based CI/CD practices for platform configuration and deployment.
- Establish practical standards for dbt and related data-platform technologies.
- Maintain operational tooling, documentation, and runbooks.

Lead While Staying Hands-On

- Lead, mentor, and develop a small team of database and platform professionals.
- Set technical direction and priorities while remaining directly involved in architecture, implementation, and troubleshooting.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for complex production issues and participate in a shared on-call model.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives through direct ownership and influence.
- Contribute to hiring and team development.

Drive Improvement and Modernization

- Identify opportunities to improve scalability, efficiency, and cost
- Support adoption of Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and modern data tools
- Partner to enable analytics, ML, and AI workloads
- Promote automation and standardization

What we’re looking for:

- Deep hands-on Snowflake expertise across administration, security, performance, cost optimization, automation, and production architecture.
- Strong SQL skills and demonstrated experience troubleshooting and optimizing complex data workloads.
- Experience implementing least-privilege access, service identities, privileged access, credential management, access lifecycle controls, and auditing.
- Strong AWS experience and an understanding of the cloud infrastructure and security concepts surrounding modern data platforms.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred), Python or similar automation languages, and Git-based CI/CD.
- Experience working with dbt or similar modern data-transformation tooling.
- Working knowledge of PostgreSQL or strong relational database fundamentals.
- Experience supporting production systems and participating in incident response and operational troubleshooting.
- Ability to set technical direction, implement solutions, and lead technical professionals.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and influence across engineering teams.
- Sound judgment balancing security, reliability, performance, cost, and productivity.

You’d really wow us if you have:

- Experience with Satori or similar data access-management and security platforms.
- Experience with legacy SQL Server environments.
- Experience supporting data platforms used for analytics, machine learning, or AI workloads.
- Experience moving manually administered infrastructure toward automated self-service.

Estimated Salary Range: $155,000 - $175,000

Actual salary will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, skill set and level of experience. This salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Strata also provides discretionary variable pay programs based on role. In addition, Strata provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits, health and welfare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, life and accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits.

Find out more about Strata benefits [here](https://www.canva.com/design/DAEuy0aEIMM/z5m3idieTm89CTo-uhx7TA/view?utm_content=DAEuy0aEIMM&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor).

How we work: Our preferred location for open roles is Chicago, IL. We value in‑person connection and regularly host on‑campus events to create meaningful opportunities for our team to build relationships and collaborate

Thinking about applying? Research shows that women and underrepresented groups tend to apply to jobs only when they check every box on a job posting. If you’re currently reading this and hesitating to click “Apply” for that reason, we encourage you to go for it! A true passion and excitement for making an impact is just as important as work experience.

Should you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please reach out to careers@stratadecision.com.

Here @ Strata… Our culture is driven by our people solving problems together. We embrace learning, collaboration, and continuous career growth. Together, we lift our customers, our products, our company, and our community.

We believe that each of our team member’s unique perspectives and experiences is what drives innovation and positive change. Our individual differences are what make us a more forward-thinking organization. We foster a culture of inclusion, equity and belonging, regardless of race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

Our Core Values: While we celebrate what makes each member of our team unique, our core values are what connect us. They set clear expectations for how we approach our work and how each of us can positively influence the experience of our team and our customers.

- We connect with positive intent.
- We are helpful.
- We own it.
- We get better every day.
- We are humble.

## About Strata Decision Technology

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Strata Decision Technology provides enterprise performance management software, data, and intelligence solutions that help healthcare, higher education, and financial services organizations unify financial planning, decision support, and continuous improvement.
- **Entity Type**: Public (subsidiary of Roper Technologies, NYSE: ROP)
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Healthcare, Higher Education, Financial Services
- **Target customers**: B2B, serving mid-market to enterprise organizations (hospitals and health systems, colleges and universities, banks and credit unions)
- **Mission**: “Empower organizations to fuel their missions” by connecting financial and operational data to drive better decisions.

## Products & Services
The company’s core platform is **StrataJazz**, a unified enterprise performance management application covering the following areas:

- **Financial Planning** – Budgeting and forecasting, capital planning, treasury cash management, long-range financial planning, driver-based planning.
- **Decision Support** – Cost accounting, integrated analytics, contract analytics, episode analytics, strategic pricing, profitability measurement.
- **Performance Management** – Continuous improvement, management reporting, productivity reporting, real-time labor performance.
- **Data & Intelligence** – Data integration, benchmarking, and AI/ML-powered insights (led by the Chief Data & Intelligence Officer).
- **Advisory Services** – Consulting and staff augmentation for decision support, planning, and performance management.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed separately; parent Roper Technologies (NYSE: ROP) has a market cap of approximately $60B (as of mid-2025).
- **Key Metric**: Serves more than **2,300 customer organizations** across healthcare, higher education, and financial institutions.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Roper Technologies (parent company); customers include major health systems, universities, and community banks.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Named **#1 in KLAS** for Business Decision Support for **18 consecutive years**.
  - Consistently recognized as a “Best Place to Work” by Chicago Tribune, Built In Chicago, Becker’s Healthcare, and Modern Healthcare.
  - Investment in AI and machine learning through a dedicated Chief Data & Intelligence Officer.
  - Emphasis on expanding across three verticals (healthcare, higher education, financial services) with deep industry expertise.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Gold standard in healthcare analytics**: #1 KLAS rating for nearly two decades signals unmatched customer satisfaction and domain expertise.
- **Unified platform**: Single application covering planning, decision support, and performance management eliminates fragmented spreadsheets and disparate data sets.
- **Financial stability**: As part of Roper Technologies, the company has the resources to invest in long-term innovation without the pressure of short-term venture funding.
- **Deep industry specialization**: Employees are “deep experts in our customers’ domains,” providing tailored solutions for each vertical.

## Strategic Focus
- **Data and AI leadership**: The Chief Data & Intelligence Officer drives innovation in artificial intelligence and machine learning to accelerate customer value.
- **Customer-centric product development**: Continued investment in product innovation, advanced insights, and customer-focused delivery.
- **Expanding the platform’s reach**: Growing within existing customer bases and attracting new organizations across healthcare, higher education, and financial services.
- **Talent development**: A strong emphasis on career growth, learning programs, and internal mobility to retain top talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & recognition**: Multiple “Best Place to Work” awards from Chicago Tribune, Built In Chicago, and healthcare industry publications. Core values emphasize collaboration, purpose, and community.
- **Work model**: Hybrid schedule with flexibility – team members choose which days to be on campus (Chicago), with a minimum of **two days per week** in the office. New hires attend an in-person orientation at the Chicago campus.
- **Generous time off**: **31 paid days off annually** (increasing with tenure), biweekly Flex Friday program, annual wellness days, and paid parental leave (16 weeks for birthing parents).
- **Financial benefits**: Competitive compensation, annual bonus plan, matching 401k (vested day one), and Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
- **Career development**: Dedicated Career Growth & Engagement leader, comprehensive new hire onboarding with cohort learning, LIFT employee development program, LinkedIn Learning access, and tuition reimbursement.
- **Wellness & perks**: Medical/dental/vision coverage starting day one, HSA/FSA accounts, telemedicine, monthly technology reimbursement, annual wellness reimbursement, and education grants.
- **Team environment**: R&D teams emphasize collaboration across software engineering, product management, design, data science, and more. New hire retreats in Chicago foster connection with leadership.

## Sources
1. [stratadecision.com](https://www.stratadecision.com/)
2. [Company About Page](https://www.stratadecision.com/company)
3. [Careers Page](https://www.stratadecision.com/careers)
4. [Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stratacareers)
5. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/strata-decision-technology)

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