Data Engineer - Databricks

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We are looking for a Data Engineer with deep expertise in Databricks to design, build, and scale our data platform. You will own the architecture and performance of large-scale data pipelines, drive best practices across the Lakehouse stack, and partner closely with Data Science, Analytics, and AI Engineering teams to deliver reliable, production-grade data infrastructure.

This role is ideal for someone who has moved beyond writing pipelines to also shaping platform standards, mentoring engineers, and making architectural decisions on a Databricks-based Lakehouse.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on Databricks , processing large volumes of structured and unstructured data

Architect and maintain Delta Lake -based data models, ensuring data quality, reliability, and performance across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers

Develop and orchestrate workflows using Databricks Workflows , Delta Live Tables (DLT) , and job scheduling tools

Implement data governance, access control, and lineage using Unity Catalog

Optimize Spark jobs for performance and cost (cluster sizing, partitioning, caching, Photon, Z-ordering, file compaction)

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Databricks notebooks/jobs (Databricks Asset Bundles, Repos, Git integration)

Collaborate with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to support feature engineering and MLflow -based model lifecycle workflows

Define and enforce data engineering best practices: testing, version control, observability, and documentation

Monitor pipeline health and cost, implementing alerting and proactive optimization (cluster policies, job clusters vs. all-purpose clusters)

Mentor mid-level engineers and contribute to technical decision-making and platform roadmap

Ensure compliance with data security and privacy requirements (e.g., GDPR)

Must-Have Skills

5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, with 3+ years hands-on with Databricks

Databricks Technical Administration and Maintenance (SME-level: knowledge acquisition, ongoing support and maintenance of the Databricks platform)

Skills: Databricks Platform, Data Science

• Strong proficiency in Apache Spark (PySpark and/or Scala)

• Solid experience with Delta Lake architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold, ACID transactions, schema evolution)

• Hands-on experience with Unity Catalog for governance and access management

• Strong SQL skills and experience with Databricks SQL Warehouses

• Experience building and orchestrating pipelines with Delta Live Tables and/or Databricks Workflows

• Proficiency in Python

• Experience with CI/CD for data pipelines (Databricks Asset Bundles, Git, Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI)

• Strong understanding of cloud data architecture (any of Azure, AWS, or GCP)

• Experience with performance tuning and cost optimization on Databricks clusters

• Nice-to-Have Skills

• Cloud-specific Databricks experience: Azure Databricks, Databricks on AWS, or Databricks on GCP

• Experience with MLflow for experiment tracking and model registry

• Familiarity with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code (Databricks provider)

• Exposure to streaming data pipelines (Structured Streaming, Kafka, Event Hubs/Kinesis)

• Experience with dbt on Databricks

• Knowledge of data observability tools (e.g., Monte Carlo, Great Expectations)

• Familiarity with LLMOps/AI workloads on Databricks (Vector Search, Model Serving)

• Databricks certifications (Data Engineer Professional/Associate, Spark Developer)

• Experience working under compliance frameworks (GDPR, ISO 27001, DORA)

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