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What You'll Do

  • Design and develop scalable data pipelines and Lakehouse solutions on Databricks.
  • Tune Databricks workloads for performance and cost, including cluster sizing, query optimization, and Delta Lake table design.
  • Establish and enforce best practices for partitioning, clustering, and workload isolation.
  • Track performance trends, identify high-cost queries, and partner with source teams and end users to resolve long-running loads.
  • Design and operationalize Unity Catalog for data governance — access control, lineage, and security.
  • Build monitoring and self-healing automation using Databricks-native AI and agentic capabilities.
  • Drive CI/CD workflows for Databricks assets, setting DevOps best practices for deployment and release management.
  • Lead design reviews and mentor Data Engineers on Databricks best practices and AI-native features.
  • Own Databricks vendor coordination — case management, escalations, and release adoption strategy.
  • What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months) Within 6–12 months, you'll define the platform's tuning and governance standards, lead design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and shape the AI-native operations roadmap.
  • Required Qualifications: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent relevant experience. 6+ years of data engineering experience with 2+ years hands-on Databricks in enterprise settings.
  • Deep understanding of Databricks Lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Workflow orchestration.
  • Proven ability to tune Spark workloads for cost and performance at production scale.
  • Advanced Python (PySpark) and SQL skills.
  • Working knowledge of CI/CD practices and DevOps principles applied to data workloads.
  • Experience with observability tooling for Databricks.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Databricks-native AI capabilities and agentic frameworks.
  • Familiarity with Databricks Serverless Compute and DBSQL performance tuning.
  • A Databricks Certified Professional.
  • Exposure to Infrastructure-as-Code is a plus.
  • Competencies: Performance-engineering mindset — measures, tunes, and re-measures.
  • Curiosity for AI-native operations and continuous automation.
  • Strong sense of platform ownership — quality, cost, and reliability.
  • Effective communication with engineering peers, vendors, and business stakeholders.
  • Influence outcomes across source teams, vendors, and business stakeholders without direct authority.
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