Site Reliability Engineer, Lead - Data Platforms

Overview

Who we are

Collaborative. Respectful. A place to dream and do. These are just a few words that describe what life is like at Toyota. As one of the world's most admired brands, Toyota is growing and leading the future of mobility through innovative, high-quality solutions designed to enhance lives and delight those we serve. We're looking for talented team members who want to Dream. Do. Grow. with us.

An important part of the Toyota family is Toyota Financial Services (TFS), the finance and insurance brand for Toyota and Lexus in North America. While TFS is a separate business entity, it is an essential part of this world-changing company- delivering on Toyota's vision to move people beyond what's possible. At TFS, you will help create best-in-class customer experience in an innovative, collaborative environment.

Toyota does not offer support or sponsorship of job applicants for employment-based visas or any other work authorization for this role now or in the future. You must have the right to work in the United States and not require Toyota support or sponsorship for immigration-related employment (e.g., H-1B, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, TN, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, TN, (job flexibility benefits) (also known as I-140 or Adjustment of Status portability), etc.) now or in the future. You should not apply for this role if you will require Toyota to assist with immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future.

Who we're looking for

The Toyota Financial Services Technology Operations Center is looking for a passionate and highly motivated Site Reliability Engineer - Data Platforms.

Reporting to the Manager of SRE Departments, the individual in this role will be focus strengthen our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) capabilities across a diverse data platforms and pipeline/framework ecosystem. This role blends data engineering expertise with reliability, automation, and observability practices to ensure our data flows are resilient, scalable, and continuously improving. You'll support Python-based data pipelines, Informatica for data transformation, and Snowflake for cloud data warehousing. You'll also play a central role in building robust monitoring and alerting frameworks, including deep integration with Dynatrace.

What you'll be doing

• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability for data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows.
• Build and optimize Dynatrace dashboards, alerts, custom metrics, and integrations to ensure proactive detection of issues.
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation efforts.
• Improve system reliability through automation, performance tuning, and resiliency best practices.
• Reduce operational toil by identifying and automating repetitive tasks.
• Support, troubleshoot, and enhance Python-based data pipelines/frameworks.
• Work with Informatica PowerCenter/Cloud to design, optimize, and maintain ETL workflows.
• Manage and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and loading into Snowflake.
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to ensure data quality, consistency, and performance.
• Develop and maintain job scheduling and orchestration using Autosys and Airflow.
• Build automation for deployments, validations, and operational workflows.
• Optimize pipelines for data and ETL processes.
• Build and Maintain components required to Automate operational workflows and reduce toil using Python or equivalent scripting language.

• Bachelor's degree in information technology or related field.
• Solid understanding of SRE concepts: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response.
• 8+ years of experience in SRE, data engineering, DevOps, or related fields.
• Strong proficiency in Python for data processing, automation, and tooling.
• Hands-on experience with Informatica PowerCenter.
• Deep understanding of Snowflake architecture, performance tuning, and rel="noopener noreferrer">talent.acquisition@toyota.com.