Altagas - Specialist, Platform Engineering

AltaGas - Specialist, Platform Engineering
AltaGas is scaling enterprise AI, data, analytics, automation, and low-code capabilities across the organization. We are looking for a Specialist, Platform Engineering to own the sustainment and run-services function for the platforms enabling this work.
You Will:
Lead day-to-day operational performance across Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, Power BI, Power Pages, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, AI agents, automations, and supporting Azure data and AI services.
Establish and continuously improve runbooks, support models, escalation paths, service ownership, production-readiness requirements, monitoring, and operational controls.
Coordinate incidents, problems, service requests, defects, changes, releases, environments, capacity, lifecycle risks, and technical debt across the platform portfolio.
Develop, maintain, and optimize Microsoft Fabric ingestion, transformation, and orchestration workloads, including Python notebooks and Data Factory pipelines, while supporting secure enterprise integrations using Fabric connectors and middleware such as CData.
Implement data validation, logging, monitoring, error handling, and recovery processes, investigating failures and addressing data quality and performance issues.
Lead operational relationships with system integrators, managed service providers, and platform support partners, measuring performance against SLAs, delivery dates, budgets, quality standards, and remediation commitments.
Own the intake, prioritization, estimation, scheduling, tracking, and closure of platform enhancements, including contracted hours, consumption forecasts, backlog health, delivery metrics, and business outcomes.
Partner with Architecture, Cybersecurity, Privacy, Data Governance, AI Governance, and Risk teams to ensure platforms and solutions meet enterprise requirements for access, security, data protection, monitoring, lifecycle management, and Responsible AI.
Develop dashboards and executive reporting covering SLA performance, incidents, defects, backlog health, capacity, consumption, utilization, costs, risks, and improvement opportunities.
Use root‑cause and trend analysis to reduce recurring incidents, improve reliability, manage technical debt, optimize costs, and recommend changes to vendor scope, service levels, staffing, platform configuration, and investment priorities.
Develop sustainable operating models and reusable operational patterns for MCP servers, enterprise connectors, agentic AI solutions, AI‑enabled workflows, and emerging Microsoft data and AI capabilities.
You Have:
7+ years of experience in enterprise platform engineering, application sustainment, managed services, service delivery, cloud operations, data platforms, or a related field.
Demonstrated experience managing system integrators, managed service providers, vendors, or outsourced delivery teams, including accountability for SLAs, milestones, budgets, delivery commitments, and quality.
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft cloud technologies, with hands‑on experience across several of the following: Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, Power BI, Power Pages, Azure data services, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Copilot Studio.
Experience with operational practices such as incident, problem, change, release, service request, capacity, environment, and lifecycle management.
Experience managing enhancement backlogs, contracted hours, estimates, delivery metrics, financial tracking, resource consumption, and service reporting.
The ability to interpret operational data, identify performance gaps, challenge assumptions constructively, and translate findings into practical corrective actions.
Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, including confidence escalating issues and holding partners accountable while maintaining productive relationships.
A self‑directed, organized, and outcome‑focused approach, with strong judgment, follow‑through, and comfort working in an evolving technology environment.
Why AltaGasAt AltaGas, we're building the digital, data, and AI capabilities that will support how our organization works today and evolves for the future. You'll have the opportunity to work at the intersection of enterprise technology, AI, data, automation, and operational excellence while helping establish the standards and operating models that allow these capabilities to scale responsibly. You'll collaborate with teams across technology and the business, influence how emerging platforms are operated, and help turn innovative solutions into reliable enterprise services.
For Canadian hiresAltaGas hires personnel on the basis of job‑related qualifications. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to a person's ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, record of offences, marital status, family status or disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
For U.S. hiresWGL/SEMCO/AltaGas offers a total rewards package that includes competitive pay, incentive bonus plans, holiday pay, 401K matching and a wide array of benefits. These benefits including medical, dental and vision coverage are designed to help you and your family stay healthy. We also have paid time off (PTO) to balance the demands of your work and personal life. Available benefits vary depending on the specifics of the role.
U.S. affiliates of AltaGas are committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, family responsibilities, matriculation, physical or mental disabilities, political affiliation, genetic information, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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