Senior Data Engineer – Databricks, AWS
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Senior Databricks Data Engineer specializing in AWS cloud-native data solutions. Supporting federal client data platform modernization initiatives with expertise in data pipelines and governance.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines utilizing Databricks and AWS services.
- Implement and optimize Databricks Lakehouse capabilities including Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, Auto Loader, Databricks SQL, and Delta Sharing.
- Build and maintain governed data products supporting operational, analytical, reporting, and machine learning workloads.
- Develop and support medallion architecture data pipelines and enterprise data quality frameworks.
- Implement data governance controls, metadata management, lineage tracking, and data retention policies.
- Collaborate with cloud engineers, architects, cybersecurity specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, production-ready solutions.
- Optimize platform performance through partitioning, clustering, caching, workload tuning, and query optimization techniques.
- Support analytics enablement through semantic layers, dashboards, reporting solutions, and self-service data access capabilities.
- Participate in architecture reviews, operational readiness activities, platform modernization initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Create and maintain technical documentation, design artifacts, operational procedures, and engineering standards.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
- Minimum eight (8) years of experience in cloud-based data engineering, platform development, or data architecture.
- Minimum three (3) years of hands-on Databricks experience in production environments.
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting large-scale ETL/ELT solutions.
- Strong experience with AWS services including S3, IAM, Glue, Athena, Lambda, Redshift, and CloudWatch.
- Experience implementing enterprise data governance and security controls.
- Strong SQL and Python development skills.
- Experience working with data lakes, data warehouses, and cloud-native analytics platforms.
- Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and optimization experience.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
















