AARP · 1 month ago
Engineer II, Data Platforms
AARP is the nation's largest nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering people 50 and older. The Engineer II, Data Platforms role involves working with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications, establishing a technical roadmap, and ensuring sound architecture design throughout the platform lifecycle.
Family & CareNon ProfitElderlySocial Impact
Responsibilities
Establishes a technical roadmap for the platform and/or capability strategy and lifecycle that considers value-based outcomes, costs to maintain, supportability, and performance
Ensures sound integration, data, security, and business architecture design throughout all stages within the platform and/or capability lifecycle
Provides rapid delivery and development of technical solutions that align with business and/or platform desired outcomes
Troubleshoots and resolves technical issues related to platform or capability systems, solutions, and services
Innovates and drives continuous improvements of implementation methodology and technical service offerings based on customer/employee experiences or other enterprise objectives/outcomes
Participates in a Community of Interest for engineers across all capability and platform teams to share information and strengthen understanding of business needs and technology-based business solutions
Develops and maintains deep technical knowledge and expertise related to domain area systems, solutions, services, and applications
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
6+ years of experience in data engineering and/or software development
4+ years of hands-on experience with Python and/or PySpark, and SQL for data transformation, pipeline development, and data modeling
3+ years of experience developing and integrating APIs (RESTful services, JSON)
Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines using Git-based repositories (e.g., GitHub)
Applied experience with cloud-native technologies, including AWS
Working knowledge of object-oriented and/or ontology-based data environments, and experience building applications/workflows on platforms such as Salesforce, PowerApps, or Databricks
Strong communication and problem-solving skills, with experience working in Agile environments, contributing to solution design, and supporting production systems, including participation in on-call and after-hours release support as needed
Regular and reliable job attendance
Effective verbal and written communication skills
Exhibit respect and understanding of others to maintain professional relationships
Independent judgement in evaluation options to make sound decisions
Home office environment with the ability to work effectively surrounded by moderate home environment noise - (Telework)
Benefits
401(k)
100% company-funded pension plan
Health, dental, and vision plans
Life insurance
Paid time off to include company and individual holidays, vacation, sick, caregiving, and parental leave
Performance-based and peer-based recognition
Tuition reimbursement
Company
AARP
AARP is leading a revolution in the way people view and live life after 50.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknownKey Investors
Consumer Technology Association
2019-07-29Grant
Leadership Team
Recent News
2026-07-01
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