We are looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join a 4-month contract opportunity based in Norman, Oklahoma. This role owns the storage, retention and pipeline-correctness workstream. This is data engineering, not cloud infrastructure.

What they will actually do

▪ Own the storage and pipeline backlog across the ingestion and processing repositories

▪ Event ordering and bitemporal modelling: separating event time from ingestion time, deterministic replay

▪ Atomic snapshot publication with schema admission and rollback

▪ Design the historical layer on object storage so it can be queried economically and answer as-of questions correctly — file format, partitioning, compaction, and whether the canonical layer moves onto a managed table format

▪ Reconcile the operational database and the historical store so a point-in-time question returns one answer rather than two

▪ Evidence immutability and retention: object-lock semantics, preventing overwrite of stored evidence, validated recovery paths

▪ Pipeline durability: idempotent runs, completeness receipts, restore testing

▪ Support production cutover in month 4 — this seat does not roll off early