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We are seeking a Senior Databricks Engineer to design, build, and optimize large-scale data and analytics platforms on the Databricks Lakehouse. In this role you will own the architecture and delivery of production-grade data pipelines, partner with analytics and data science teams, and set engineering standards for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across our cloud data estate.
Information Security Responsibilities
- Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
- Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
- Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
- Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information
Role and Responsibilities:
- Architect, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Delta Lake.
- Design and implement medallion (bronze/silver/gold) data architectures and enforce data quality, governance, and lineage standards.
- Optimize Spark jobs and cluster configurations for performance and cost, including partitioning, caching, and autoscaling strategies.
- Implement and manage Unity Catalog for access control, data governance, and cross-workspace asset sharing.
- Build and orchestrate workflows using Databricks Workflows, Delta Live Tables, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable data products.
- Establish engineering best practices, conduct code reviews, and mentor junior data engineers.
- Monitor production pipelines, troubleshoot failures, and drive root-cause analysis and continuous improvement.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of data engineering experience, with 3+ years building production solutions on Databricks and Apache Spark.
- Expert proficiency in Python (PySpark) and advanced SQL.
- Deep hands-on experience with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and the medallion architecture pattern.
- Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and its core data services.
- Proven track recordoptimizing Spark performance and managing cluster cost.
- Experience with data modeling, warehousing concepts, and building dimensional/analytics-ready datasets.
- Proficiency with Git-based version control, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Databricks certification (Data Engineer Associate/Professional).
- Experience with Delta Live Tables, structured streaming, and real-time data processing.
- Familiarity with MLflow and supporting machine learning workflows in production.
- Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, dbt) and data observability platforms.
- Exposure to data governance, security, and compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2).
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) to accelerate development, refactoring, and code review.
- Familiarity with large language model APIs and SDKs (e.g., Anthropic Claude, OpenAI) and prompt engineering for data and analytics use cases.
- Experience integrating GenAI capabilities into data pipelines or applications, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and vector search.
- Awareness of responsible AI practices, including evaluation, guardrails, and cost/latency trade-offs when deploying LLM-based solutions.
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