Data Engineer / Data Platform Consultant

What You'll Do

In this role, you will join Teradata's French delivery team and work directly with some of France's largest enterprises to ensure the reliability, performance, security, and evolution of their mission-critical data platforms.

Unlike traditional data engineering roles focused primarily on ETL development, this position combines platform engineering, database expertise, performance optimization, and technical consulting.

Your missions will include:

• Administering and maintaining large-scale Teradata environments, ensuring availability, stability, and operational excellence.
• Analyzing system performance, capacity utilization, and workload behavior to identify optimization opportunities and support long-term capacity planning.
• Leading technical investigations and resolving complex platform issues in collaboration with Teradata Global Support and customer technical teams.
• Designing and implementing platform hardening, security, and operational best practices.
• Planning and executing maintenance activities, upgrades, migrations, backup and recovery procedures, and infrastructure changes.
• Advising customers on architecture decisions, system sizing, scalability, disaster recovery, and operational governance.
• Supporting modernization initiatives involving cloud platforms, data lake integration, and emerging data architectures.
• Acting as a trusted technical expert capable of going deep into platform internals while maintaining strong customer relationships.

Success in this role means becoming a recognized technical authority for our customers, helping them maximize the performance, resilience, and business value of their data platform investments.

Who You'll Work With

You will be part of Teradata France's delivery organization, a team of experienced consultants, architects, and data engineers serving some of the country's largest organizations across banking, insurance, transportation, retail, telecommunications, and public sectors.

You will collaborate closely with customer infrastructure teams, DBAs, architects, security teams, and application owners, as well as Teradata's global engineering and support organizations.

This position reports to the French Delivery Manager.

What Makes You a Qualified Candidate

• Strong experience administering large-scale relational database or data warehouse platforms.
• Advanced SQL skills and solid understanding of database internals, query optimization, indexing strategies, statistics management, and workload management.
• Experience with performance analysis, capacity planning, monitoring, and troubleshooting in production environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in backup/recovery strategies, high availability, disaster recovery, and operational procedures.
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems, networking fundamentals, and enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Experience working directly with customers in technical consulting, operations, or support-oriented roles.
• Ability to lead technical investigations and solve complex cross-functional problems.
• Professional proficiency in English.

What You'll Bring

• Experience with cloud architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with infrastructure automation and scripting using Python, Shell, or similar languages.
• Understanding of security hardening practices, authentication mechanisms, encryption, and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools in large-scale production environments.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, containerized platforms, or modern data platform architectures.
• Knowledge of data lake technologies such as Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Apache Spark.
• Curiosity for AI and modern analytical workloads, including how GenAI technologies impact enterprise data platforms.

Preferred

• Experience administering, tuning, or supporting Teradata Vantage environments.
• Knowledge of Teradata security architecture, workload management, LDAP integration, Kerberos, and enterprise authentication mechanisms.
• Familiarity with cloud deployments of Teradata Vantage on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.