Data Platform Engineer

About the role

At Tactile Medical, we are building a modern, scalable data platform on Microsoft Fabric to support enterprise analytics, reporting, and future data capabilities. The Data Platform Engineer will play a critical role in maturing and operationalizing this platform, ensuring it is reliable, efficient, and easy for teams to use. This role is responsible for translating architectural standards into practical, reusable platform patterns, while improving performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. As a highly visible contributor within IT, the Data Platform Engineer will combine hands-on technical expertise with mentorship and cross-functional collaboration to enable data engineers and BI teams to deliver high-quality solutions at scale. Accountabilities & Responsibilities Microsoft Fabric Platform Enablement Design and maintain Microsoft Fabric workspace standards, including dev/test/prod environments and naming conventions Configure and support core platform components such as pipelines, datasets, semantic models, and Lakehouse architecture Develop and document reusable platform patterns and best practices to promote consistency and scalability Partner with the Data Architect to implement and operationalize enterprise architecture standards Data Engineering & Platform Development Design, build, and maintain data pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data from multiple source systems Implement scalable data integration solutions across disparate systems Apply medallion architecture and other modern data engineering practices Contribute hands-on development to support platform and data delivery needs Reliability, Operations & Observability Establish and maintain platform monitoring practices, including pipeline failures, dataset refreshes, and dependencies Configure alerts, dashboards, and runbooks to proactively identify and resolve issues Troubleshoot platform performance, reliability, and operational challenges Improve overall platform stability to ensure a consistent and trusted user experience Security, Access & Cost Management Implement and maintain role-based access controls across workspaces and datasets Support onboarding, access changes, and offboarding through standardized processes Monitor and optimize platform usage, balancing cost, performance, and scalability Contribute to governance practices that ensure secure and responsible data usage Collaboration, Mentorship & Enablement Mentor data engineers and technical team members on platform standards, patterns, and best practices Partner with cross-functional teams to support adoption and effective use of the data platform Communicate platform capabilities and constraints clearly to technical stakeholders Help establish processes and standards in a growing, evolving data environment Other: Participate in platform and data strategy discussions Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering practices and platform capabilities Perform additional duties as assigned